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Hi there.
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My name is Christy McCormick, and I am advocating for
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violence amongst nurses.
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Um, I'm here to tell you my stories and why
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this is so important to me.
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So I've been a nurse for 20 years in the
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emergency room, and I was physically assaulted once and scared
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to death the second time.
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So the first time, I must take care of a
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19 year old patient who suffered an artery in his
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right arm and was getting ready to go to surgery.
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I was stabilizing his left arm when he snapped on
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me and proceeded to strike me in the job with
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his fist, knocking my teeth Lewis and throwing me into
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a ball.
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Um, I had to go in front of a grand
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jury where he was prosecuted in sentence to, um, four
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months in jail.
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My hospital did not advocate for me.
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They did not help me.
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It was the physician that was on duty that day
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that was there with me when I had to testify
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the second time, I was working in a Level one
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trauma center and I was taking They had put a
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drunk in one of my rooms.
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I know he was there when I found out, I
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went to check on him and all.
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I found your cans.
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Thieve roommate told me that he was in the bathroom,
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so I knocked on the door.
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He came out Hey was about 64 weighing £360 Maybe,
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I don't know.
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He was huge.
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And, um, he was very frumpy and crumbly.
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Asked me what I wanted.
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I told him that I needed entered come back to
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the room so that we could do an evaluation and
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I could get in triage.
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Ah, I asked him if he was drinking.
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He said yes.
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I said, Can I have the remainder of your beer?
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You can have it when you leave, but you can't
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have a why you're here in the emergency room.
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He enemy to beer cans and then proceeded to whip
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out a hunting knife, a very long hunting knife.
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And I have never been so scared in all my
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life. I thought if this man snaps excellent my throat,
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nobody's going to stop him and I'd be done.
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So it's extremely important to me because I have witnessed
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for hand what could happen.
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And I don't wish that upon anyone, and I think
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it's a very important topic within the health care community.
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Upon doing research on a couple of incidents is I
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found was the South Carolina emergency room.
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There's were shot.
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This was in regards to a patient who was brought
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in by his girlfriend for mental health evaluation and was
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refused, told to bring him back three days later.
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When he arrived that day, he had a gun.
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The security took his gun.
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But he arrived the next day with another gun and
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proceeded to open fire.
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A nurse was shot in Kentucky.
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That was after a altercation.
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He ripped off his gown, became belligerent, not getting what
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he needed and scuffled with security officer, who in turn
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accidentally lost his gun and the patient opened fire.
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There was another incident in Georgia where a gentleman was
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very upset, distraught that his wife died, felt it was
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the nurses fault and came in and killed the charge
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nurse on duty that day.
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Statistics in
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2018 stated that 97% of Edie providers and nurses assaulted
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Um after a study, 71% had witnessed assaults, 97% were
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committed by patients and 28% by family and friends.
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That's huge has a huge statistic.
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There are four types of violence committed within health care
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facilities. The 1st 1 is criminal intent.
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It's when the perpetrator has the intent to harm the
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individuals taking care of patients.
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2nd 1 is patients receiving care when they snap because
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they don't get what they want.
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The drugs that they want, the care that they want
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are mentally unstable.
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The third is employees to employees, and the first is
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personal vendetta.
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But I was in the workplace.
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You have to respond.
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It states that your life depends on it.
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If you react within the 1st 15 to 30 seconds
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of an event, proper training and safety precautions should be
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put in place, and I believe that it should be
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more than just once of the year.
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Um, I know that my facility that I work at
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has training once a year, and it's bacon.
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It's basically a video that you watch, right.
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They I believe they should mark codes they do for
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everything else for traumas, for disasters, that kind of thing
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and I think that we should have training on violent
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patients. We need to advocate.
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You have a voice.
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We need to use it.
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You need to be heard.
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Your life matters along with your peers.
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So what I mean by that is you know, don't
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be afraid to go to management.
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People are afraid that if they speak out, you know
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nothing. And first of all, nothing's gonna happen.
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Nothing will get done.
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It just go on hurt.
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And then others are afraid of repercussion.
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You know, um, so I don't think that enough people,
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um, speak up in the amount of violence that we
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see. It's not part of the job people.
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It's not.
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Um so therefore, contact your local senator.
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I did reached out to mind.
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I sent her a letter on dhe.
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She responded back.
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I received a two page letter stating, You know, the
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different things that are going on, processes in place, lab
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being that kind of thing, you know, it is a
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felony now to assault Help.
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Excuse me?
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I helped her provider.
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That's huge.
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It it wasn't 15 years ago when I was assaulted.
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Um, there's also a foundation called silence.
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No more it was established in 2017.
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And it's a bunch of nurses who, um, give testimonies
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about what has happened to them and, um, lobby against
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the workplace.
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Violence among health care.
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So it's it's a wonderful foundation, and there's more out
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there. Um, I could list them all, but I don't
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think this presentation would want for it.
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Um, please take a look at my added references.
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I wasn't able to Adam onto this presentation.
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It would cut them off, and there's, like, four of
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them. So I just added them onto, um, our discussion
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board and then at the end of my quotation presentation,
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with, um, submitting it.
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So I hope you like it.
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It's, um, very important to me.
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Um, please speak out.
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Have a great day.