Home Features & Analysis‘If I’m not safe, my patients aren’t safe’: Nurses plead for protection after HSC assault
A health-care aide and nurse were assaulted in HSC’s emergency department, prompting Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson to warn that escalating violence, slow employer action, and delayed safety reforms are putting both health-care workers and patients at risk.
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‘If I’m not safe, my patients aren’t safe’: Nurses plead for protection after HSC assault

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By Steven Sukkau | Winnipeg Sun Violence against front-line health-care workers continues to escalate in Manitoba, with the latest incident at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) leaving a health-care aide choked and…

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