A former patient at QEII Halifax dispensary talks about safety concerns, claiming that she witnessed this type of health care workers experience.
Mandie Pitre shares the story in light of a silver incident on Wednesday in the hospital’s emergency room, as it stabbed three workers.
She said: “If nothing is done to make sure there is a better safety and security for employees and patients in the hospital, this will only continue,” she said.
Peter was transferred to the hospital in the orthopedic unit with an ankle of dislocation in September 2024. She says she woke up in the middle of the night and heard another patient talking to the nursing team on the other side of the alcove.
Suddenly, you remember, the tone turned.
“There is no security on Earth at the present time, and these six nurses are only all very large. So, they are starting to scratch, and you can hear something important to happen and it is not good.”
Pider says she had later discovered that the patient entered the nurses station and was threatening them with a pair of scissors. The police officers, who arrived at the scene and tried to cancel the situation.
She recalls, “They are like,” You need to put out the scissors, as you frighten the nurses and make them not feel safe. “
“Suddenly, just of blue, I hear this screaming that swings with blood.”
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Pider says she saw the man running in the hallway behind her, and his witness hurts himself.
She said: “Then he is eventually removed from the ground, then a complete crime scene in the hospital.”
Halifax regional police spokesman confirmed that the officers had been summoned to QEII on September 11, 2024 for an arms accident. Police said that the employees in this position were not physically.
After another attack, Pider says she was frustrated to hear something that had not changed.
Violence in the workplace is a great concern for nurses – current and ambitious.
Tiffany McQueen, president of the Canadian Nursing Students Association, says that it can hinder students from entering this field.
“I thought about myself, does this really want to do? Do I want to go to work every day, afraid that someone might explode without any reason at all, so that I have ended for six months a year, and I lose my income, They are afraid, and swing after the shock from the accident? She said?
“Violence does not stop as soon as the attack ends.”
According to the Nova Scotia Nurses Union, violence can be prevented.
Janet Hazleton, the president of the Federation, spoke about this issue during the meeting of the Federal, Regional and Regional Ministers, which took place this week in Halifax.
“We say we need security in all our facilities 24/7,” said Hazleton.
We need security cameras. I think we need metal detection devices. She talked to health ministers yesterday and the Federal Health Minister and talked about this, and said that it was time.
Karen Oldfield, CEO of Nova Scotia Health, said she is doing what she can make Ers in the province safer.
She said in an interview on Thursday: “I want them to know that I am doing everything I seek to ensure that they feel safe in their workplace,” she said in an interview on Thursday.
She emphasized that Nova Scotia Health has bought five switches to detect metal hands to enable employees to search for hidden weapons, and that training in learning how to use them has started.
She also said that the contract negotiations with the provincial nurses led to an agreement to spend $ 7 million on new security measures, such as risk assessments and education programs. She emphasized that the health authority and the Federation of Nurses were decided together on how to invest this money.
Regarding the Wednesday incident, Nicholas Robert Colombian, from Halifax, is accused of attempting to kill, three charges of strict attack, three charges of attacking with a weapon, and two charges of possession of a dangerous weapon for the purpose of committing a crime.
– With files from the Canadian press
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