Violence Against Hospital Nurses Problem In Hungary
- 20 Apr 2015 4:04 AM
Violence against nurses is frequent in Hungary, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Monday. Only 13% of nurses say they have not experienced some form of aggression. A survey commissioned by the professional college of nurses involving interviews with 2,420 nurses found that 51% had experienced up to two instances of violence while an additional 29% reported two or more.
Fully 7% said they were regular victims of violence at the workplace.
Of all the nurses asked, 37% had suffered physical violence and nearly 8% said they had been subjected to sexual harassment, including verbal harassment, the survey showed.
The nurses reported maltreatment by patients and by patients’ relatives. But it was the patients rather than relatives who tended to act aggressively. Some 31% of the nurses interviewed said aggression had a determining impact on their work while 57% said it had a partial influence. Only 12% said it had no influence on their work.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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