Health care workers are being attacked on the job. It's getting worse.
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Workplace Violence in Health Care
Sarah basuric is a 30-year-old nurse in Edmonton, Alberta. In april of this year, she was dealing with what had been described to her by the departing nurse as just kind of a tricky patient. At one point during her shift, that atient deployed a can of bearspray in the emergency department. And for some reason, sarah seemed to suffer the most serious consequences of that a she struggled to breathe. She had to be admitted to iceu, where she spent the night and am she hasn't returned to work since that incident. Has been diagnosed with p t s d. That man was charged with one count of possession of a weapon for
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