Patients spitting & nurse rights

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Just wondering, I've seen soooo many posts about nurses being spit on, cursed, bitten....what is the recourse for nurses, if any? Do you have to continue to care for the patient, how do you handle it? Thanks

Specializes in CTICU.
Just looked this up....

Intentionally spitting on another person qualifies as "simple assault" under the theory of assault as an attempted or completed battery, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday

Indeed.

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