Just days after a doctor was brutally attacked and left for dead at the Penticton hospital the BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) says a nurse was assaulted in Kamloops.
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According to the BC Nurses’ Union, the nurse was attacked on Sunday while working at the Hillside Centre at Royal Inland Hospital. The Centre is psychiatric unit at the hospital and the assailant was a patient there. According to the BCNU, the nurse was grabbed by her hair, punched several times and thrown against a wall.
“She was treated in emergency and is recovering at home from pain and bruising,” says a release from the BCNU. “One year ago, another nurse was seriously assaulted at the same facility. The health authority promised better security. Despite that promise, the nurse who was assaulted on Sunday had an alarm with a dead battery and a new alarm system is 18 months overdue.”
“Nurses are assaulted almost daily in hospitals across BC,” said BC Nurses’ Union President Gayle Duteil. “In many cases, the assaults could be prevented with better staffing levels, on-site security personnel and alarm systems that work.”
On Friday a doctor at Penticton Regional Hospital was savagely assaulted by 30 year old psychiatric patient Gregory Nield. The doctor suffered a broken jaw and other facial injuries in the attack and was transferred to another hospital due to the severity of his injuries. Nield is facing several charges in connection to the incident and remains in police custody.
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