Hennepin Healthcare is phasing out the use of handcuffs by its paramedics to secure unruly patients, after its leaders checked and discovered that its urban ambulance agency was among the last in the ...
JACKSON, MI – A nurse at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital was stabbed while on the job last week when a patient became combative and pulled out a knife. Police were called at about 7 a.m., Feb. 13, to the ...
LEBANON — A Middletown man who was a patient at Atrium Medical Center last summer was indicted for assaulting two nurses. James Taylor, 49, was indicted by a Warren County Grand Jury Friday on charges ...
Recently, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services issued an order that Tewksbury Hospital security officers will no longer carry or use non-lethal and defensive tactical equipment like ...
Aggressive behavior of patients is noticeably increasing in clinics and medical practices. High time pressure, overcrowded waiting rooms, and often unrealistic expectations among patients can cause ...
Electric Medic sheds light on the intense experience of responding to hallucinating and combative patients.