Rotten apples
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Research was conducted to find out why nurses abuse patients, what factors allow it to occur and what sort of person is likely to commit the abuse. The researcher looked through nursing journals and interviewed 10 abusive nurses. Sixty per cent of the abusers worked in the mental health sector, 30% worked with geriatrics and 80% had been nursing for over 10 years. The researcher discovered cases of rapists being put back onto the nursing register and of nurses stealing or hitting patients. Seven out of 10 abusers were male and most cases were reported by junior staff.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Bumpy ride back to work
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Being confined to a wheelchair due to partial paralysis has not prevented UK nurse Janet Fenton from returning work in a chest clinic. Fenton believes she may be the only nurse in the country working from a wheelchair but hopes the efforts she has put into returning to work will encourage others to do the same. The health trust which re-employed Fenton believes the National Health Service is failing to utilize a productive employment resource by not taking on more nursing staff with disabilities.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Sex-discrimination victory could open floodgates to similar claims
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Nurses Alison Hale and Christine Clunie won their sex-discrimination case against employer Wiltshire Health Care NHS Trust, with the employment tribunal ruling that the introduction of an internal shift rotation system was discriminatory against working mothers. The case has no legal precedent but could generate a large volume of similar claims from nurses made redundant as a result of shift changes.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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