[mikemhg]

You guys heard about the recent stabbing of the nurse student at VGH.

What's more fucking insane about that whole thing is that the patient who stabbed the nurse was suffering from alcohol withdraw, and as such, the doctor certified the patient, meaning that even while charged for the assault, the patient gets to remain in the same hospital, and often times cared by the same people they assaulted.

That's fucking insane when you think about it. The fact that Ken Sim can hire 100 new police officers, but for whatever reason can't assign a few of those officers to the hospital to assist with these types of assaults is an absolute travesty. Why in the hell is security guard Balpreet expected to handle these regular occurrences (take a guess, they don't either). Why are nurses expected to physically search patients before admission? Why are there mandates not allowing dangerous items/belonging to be taken away while in the hospital? The news never reports on the weekly assaults that happen by these drug addicted psychopaths that attack nurses with impunity, and are allowed to remain in the hospital because some dickhead doctor said so. In fact the only time these guys get kicked out is when they assault an actual doctor.

No wonder nurses get burnt out, and leave the industry entirely. These are fundamental flaws in our system that require correcting if we're ever going to retain staffing and encourage more folks to enter the profession.