An Occupational Health Safety Network (OHSN) report finds workplace violence is on the rise for nursing staff, according to an article on the Fierce Healthcare website.
The OHSN found that injuries associated with workplace violence increased overall from 2012 to 2014 and nearly doubled for nurse assistants and nurses.
Nurse assistants had more than twice the workplace-violence injury rate of nurses (about 6 and 14 percent, respectively).
Nurses and nursing assistants also experienced 57 percent of the overall injuries to healthcare workers.
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