Nurses General Nursing
Published May 27, 2002
I work in Scotland in an acute psychiatic admissions ward. It's a high pressure environment and often there are serious incidents on the ward including assaults on nursing/medical staff. It is however the hospital's policy to report such action's to the Police great you may say to yourself but it is amazing how the police just dont respond to us. I would bet my bile duct that if this happened to one of my general nursing friends in an A+E unit the police would attend as fast as there little cloven feet would carry them.What do you think?
Jay Levan
154 Posts
fedupnurse
790 Posts
It is highly frowned upon by the suits here if you call the cops if you are assaulted, doesn't matter what unit. They'd rather have their staff beaten half to death than GOD FORBID have negative publicity! This is the primary reason why I think hospital administrators should have to be in the main lobby of the hospital in a glass enclosed office space so all the world can see them and go in and let them have it for their decisions.
I am not a huge fan of cops, particularly after a few of them went out of their way to be nasty to us when we were on strike. It was just unnecessary. We were in a bad spot to begin with and then to have them giving us the finger and allowing hospital security to harass us...