Phoenix hospital hires a full-time clinical nurse specialist to protect staff + pts.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

found at healthleadersmedia.com

handling unruly patients

a phoenix hospital hires a full-time clinical nurse specialist to protect staff and patients....

[mouse]linck proposed that the hospital create a new full-time clinical nurse specialist position to deal solely with managing the care of disruptive or abusive patients and their family members, as well as helping patients with "complex psychosocial or safety needs" in the hospital's 175-bed medical-surgical unit. [/mouse]

[Beary-nice]

Thanks for sharing this information. It is very interesting and it will also be interesting to see how this works in the future. We have these problems where I work and I feel very unsafe at times! It would be a dream to have someone with expertise there to help deal with these situations.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Thanks for sharing this information. It is very interesting and it will also be interesting to see how this works in the future. We have these problems where I work and I feel very unsafe at times! It would be a dream to have someone with expertise there to help deal with these situations.

Hope you will share this article with your manager.

[Seank]

They have sitters at Scottsdale Healthcare AZ but unfortunately they are not usually available at night and violent psych patients are still abusing the nurses in the ICU. They aren't supposed to be in ICU but no where else to send them.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Wow what a cool position and one I would absolutely love to have! Now to make it worthwhile to the hospital???hmm