Compensation not the answer for care staff who face ‘terror patients’

WELL done to the Psychiatric Nurses Association for standing up for their nurses on the issue of the abuse suffered by their workers in the line of duty.

Will the INO, SIPTU, IMPACT, et al, now decry the abuse the rest of us nurses in A&E, and particularly in the care of the elderly, must endure?

While the general perception is that the highest risk areas for physical and verbal attacks in the health sector are in the psychiatric field, the reality is that a nurse or care worker with the elderly suffering from dementia rarely has a day they will not get at the very least verbal abuse, but for the most part, kicks and blows leaving nasty bruises.