Lorraine. Hospital attacks on the rise: caregivers learn how to protect themselves effectively
Verbal and physical aggression... According to recent studies, healthcare workers experience twice as many attacks as the rest of the working population. In Lorraine, two training programs have been implemented to teach them how to defuse conflicts and also how to physically restrain aggressors.
It seems that hospitals are an anxiety-inducing environment that reveals violent impulses. Healthcare workers hailed as heroes during Covid are often insulted and assaulted in their workplaces. The figures are worrying. The French National Order of Physicians conducts an annual census of assaults, and the latest one, covering 2023, reveals that violence...
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