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What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities

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Health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers, according to government data. In a National Nurses United survey in 2022, 40 percent of hospital nurses said they’d seen an increase in violent incidents. Karen Coughlin, chair of the Massachusetts Nurses Association’s workplace violence and abuse prevention task force, joins John Yang to discuss.

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U.S. & Canada
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nurse shortage, nurses, registered nurses
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