David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others Methinks while all the nurses were protesting in Fat Fred City they should have pulled docket no T-1557-15 in Federal Court and looked for something about them within one of my briefs N'esy Pas?
Nurses union wants to see more security guards in hospitals
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David Amos Methinks while all the nurses were in Fat Fred City on their big convention they should have pulled docket no T-1557-15 in Federal Court and looked for something about the DECH and the RCMP filed within one of my briefs N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell There'll be an unemployed one in the legislature in 1 to 3 years .
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks spin doctors who live in glass houses should not throw stones N'esy Pas?
David Amos Methinks the nurses have a little problem about their actions against me in 2008 N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
Reply to @David Amos: I asked them that . They hadn't a clue who you were . Neither do I !
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: methinks everybody knows who I am Paula Doucet cannot deny that she acknowledged one of my emails last summer However we all have our doubts about who you are N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane The nurses seem mean. They are not Florence Nightingale anymore. It comes as a shock. My observation.
David Amos
Reply to @Shawn McShane: I have experienced how just how mean they can be personally.
Michel Jones A nursing degree used to be 24 months of studying and practical and as of the year 2000, students wanting to be nurses were required to get a 4 year bachelor degree, was that really necessary? Many medical courses including LPN and patient Attendants followed suit and now we are reaping the benefits of those bad decisions..
Lou Bell
Reply to @Michel Jones: As long as I recall , Nursing was a 4 year course. My Aunt took nursing in the early 70's and it was 4 years . Bettewr check you r SPIN !!!
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks your Aunt knows my Sister very well N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell I know of one who'll be unemployed in 1 to 3 years . Right after the next election .
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Oh My My Aren't you well protected by the Powers That Be in the CBC ?
David Amos
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Methinks Paula Doucet, president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union knows all about 3 RCMP members and two security guards assaulting me in July of 2008 in the DECH I filed the proof of it in Federal Court a long time ago N'ey Pas?
Nurses union wants to see more security guards in hospitals
There have been more than 2,000 code whites in the last year to assist a staff member under attack
The New Brunswick Nurses Union wants to see more security guards in hospitals across the province. (John Panella/Shutterstock)
The New Brunswick Nurses Union is calling for more security guards to protect nursing staff in hospitals across the province.
Paula Doucet, president of the union, said that's one of the main things needed to protect health-care workers from a growing number of aggressive patients and visitors.
"I think it is a whole societal shift that we have to do. And some education to the public that it's not OK to assault a nurse or any health-care worker, for that matter," she said.
She said many hospitals have just two security guards at night or throughout the day, which isn't enough. And unlike public schools, hospitals don't have lockdown protocols.
Staffing shortages also play a factor in workplace violence, which could mean it takes longer for a patient to be seen or get treated, Doucet said.
If nurses aren't safe, patients aren't safe.- Paula Doucet, New Brunswick Nurses Union
"Everybody wants everything done quickly and done yesterday,'" she said.
"And when there are less staff to carry out those duties, of course the frustration levels get quite high. And what happens is they get upset with the person right in front of them. That person could happen to be a nurse."
Doucet said the workplace "isn't great right now."
And over the years, she said the number of assaults against nurses has increased.
Documents released by the New Brunswick Nurses Union reveal there were more than 2,000 "code-whites" at New Brunswick hospitals last year. A code white is when a health-care worker is under attack and all available security is called to that unit.
The numbers of attacks have almost doubled in the past five years.
More education needed
She says government needs to set aside funding to make facilities safer for health-care professionals in New Brunswick.
"You can walk through any facility right now pretty much unquestioned," she said.
Paula Doucet, president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, says most hospitals have two security guards at night or throughout the day, which isn't enough. (CBC)
Doucet said funding is also needed to provide more education to employees and the public that it's not OK to abuse nurses, whether it be physical, verbal or emotional.
"It seems like nobody's listening," she said.
For security reasons, Horizon Health Network said doors at St. Joseph's Hospital in Saint John will be locked after 5 p.m. Patients will only be able to access the facility using the Urgent Care Centre entrance.
The change will take effect on June 10.
"We believe by limiting the number of access points to our facility we are better able to ensure the quality and safe care provided at Horizon's St. Joseph's Hospital for our patients and their families," the health authority said in a news release issued Wednesday.
Horizon Health will continue to welcome family and friends to visit patients 24 hours a day.
Patients need to be safe
The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is holding its biennial convention in Fredericton this week.
Nurses in both Fredericton and Moncton have been rallying this week for more to be done to prevent violence against them.
They're also calling for the federal government to pass a private member's bill to make attacking a health-care worker a criminal offence.
CBC News
Nurses gather in solidarity outside Moncton courthouse
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Norma Melanson, mother of the nurse who was allegedly attacked at the Dr.-Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre in March, said the presence of colleagues marching to denounce workplace violence is a "great support." 0:58
Meanwhile, a 69-year-old man was charged Tuesday in Moncton court for allegedly attacking a nurse at the Dr.-Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre in March.
The alleged attack happened in the nurse's office behind closed doors before security arrived on March 11. The attack allegedly went on for about 11 minutes, leaving the nurse with a brain contusion and a broken nose.
