Nurses Under Seige

This is another article i found.This lady is in charge of the nurses at our local hospital and she backs them 110% percent.She doesn't stand for any crap towards her nurses.




UNDER SIEGE
Nurses being attacked on and off duty, says BNA head
by DONNA SEALY
NURSES are being attacked physically and verbally on and off the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s (QEH) compound, and they are sick of it.
President of the Barbados Nurses’ Association (BNA), Paulette Drakes, told the media yesterday after a service at St Thomas Parish Church to start Nurses’ Week, that they were being confronted on and off duty. She appealed for greater protection for the health care providers.
She said they were being attacked while on the wards by patients and relatives, at bus stops and in car parks, especially after reports that they recieved salary increases.
“Nurses get beaten, they get their cars broken into. Nurses get their bags snatched right on the compound too. I had a nurse who was held at gunpoint [and] a patient brought a dog on the ward for a nurse. “I have nurses who have been standing at that bus stop [outside the New Testatment Church on River Road] and when the others were gone [boarded buses], one nurse was left there and her bags and everything were taken at gun- and-knife-point. “I need safety for my nurses and that is just one side, physical safety,” Drakes said.
Fist fights
She and other nurses spoke of incidents where patients hit nurses on the head with objects, and of patients and relatives “picking” fist fights.
“We certainly need to have everybody that comes through those doors photographed or something [so] that when you start to describe [the incident/perpetrator], they can roll back the photos and say, ah ha, that’s the one. “Safety is of primary importance where we are concerned.”
Provide transport
Drakes also called for a proper transportation service for nurses, especially for those who worked late shifts and had to go to distant parishes like St Andrew and St Lucy.
“The nurses association already had a transport system where we asked the hospital to provide transport for nurses and they do that. “They go down to pick up those nurses coming from ‘Town and they take down the ones [who] come off the ward at 9 p.m. But what about those [who] come off at half past ten or 11 or 12…? I feel that those nurses should be taken home,” she said.
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Digusting. That’s how we treat our nurses. Disgusting.