MADISON, Wis. — A new study by the Emergency Nurses Association finds workplace violence is all too common in the nursing profession, but it’s patients and their families — not co-workers — that the violence typically stems from.
According to the survey of more than 3,000 nurses, more than half said that they have experienced physically violence on the job. Even more alarming, one in four of those nurses said they have been physically assaulted more than 20 times in the last three years.