Patient Abuse Case Study

Patient complaints are a common problem within the medical field. Patients are incurably asking the hospital to be treated like humans while neglecting to treat the medical team with the same respect. According to an article published in the Nursing Times, (Chapman, Styles, Perry, & Combs, 2010), 90 percent of nurse’s experience either verbal abuse or physical abuse. Although, many nurses don’t report the abuse. The healthcare team see abuse as part of their job. Clearly, there needs to be a better way of protecting of the medicine team. The increase in patient violence against health care workers occurred the same time as the increase in narcotics being abuse. Statics from the Bureau of Labor reports that 70 percent of emergency department nurses are physically abused by combative patients. (Zimlich, 2014 para. 7) Patients that are prescribed a narcotic are usually prescribed psychotropic drugs. Chronic pain tends to be a result from numerous other disorders. …show more content…
The staff should be able to not be alone with a patient at risk of being violent but is very likely due to being understaffed. Brutal attacks from the patient against the nurse are being more common. Violence against health care workers should not be tolerated. Fearing your life should not be a part of taking care of another life. Patients should be held responsible for their actions. A careful safety plan should be in place to ensure the employee is protected. All patients are not grateful and treat the healthcare staff like personal servants. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care workers are twice as likely as those in other fields to experience an injury from a violent act at work (wild, 2010, para. 3). Most emergency doctors have started carrying guns as a safety precaution. 40 percent of emergency doctors have admitted to carrying a gun. (wild,2010,