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The province has ordered the Brockville Mental Health Centre to install electronic alarms, improve staff training and hire security guards to patrol around the clock on its forensic unit following a violent attack on a nurse in 2014.
The order comes after the Ontario Nursing Association successfully appealed the Ministry of Labour’s non-issuance of the order after a nurse on the forensic unit was stabbed by a severely mentally ill woman.
That attack is the subject of a trial underway in which the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, which operates the Brockville hospital, is charged with five counts of workplace safety violations.
The Ontario Labour Review Board order also compels the hospital to develop a method for “flagging” patients who present a risk of workplace violence, including their behaviours and triggers, as well as recommended methods to control them and protect workers. The hospital must also establish a security office on the unit and staff training must include defence against sharp or edged weapons.
Nurse Debbie Vallentgoed was seriously injured in the 2014 attack when the patient stabbed her in the head and neck without warning using a contraband pen she had hidden for several days. The patient was found not criminally responsible for that attack and attacks on four other staff at the hospital.
“This employer had been resisting any pressure to take additional measures to keep our dedicated registered nurses and health-care workers safe while they provide quality patient care to these very ill patients,” ONA president Linda Haslam-Stroud said in a release. “As nurses, we should never have to face violent attacks while providing the care our patients require. Our patients and our RNs will be safer for this decision. Violence is not part of our job.”
A verdict in another Occupational Health and Safety Act trial involving The Royal’s Carling Avenue recovery unit is expect later this month. In that incident, three nurses were injured when attacked by a male patient.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
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The order comes after the Ontario Nursing Association successfully appealed the Ministry of Labour’s non-issuance of the order after a nurse on the forensic unit was stabbed by a severely mentally ill woman.
That attack is the subject of a trial underway in which the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, which operates the Brockville hospital, is charged with five counts of workplace safety violations.
The Ontario Labour Review Board order also compels the hospital to develop a method for “flagging” patients who present a risk of workplace violence, including their behaviours and triggers, as well as recommended methods to control them and protect workers. The hospital must also establish a security office on the unit and staff training must include defence against sharp or edged weapons.
Nurse Debbie Vallentgoed was seriously injured in the 2014 attack when the patient stabbed her in the head and neck without warning using a contraband pen she had hidden for several days. The patient was found not criminally responsible for that attack and attacks on four other staff at the hospital.
“This employer had been resisting any pressure to take additional measures to keep our dedicated registered nurses and health-care workers safe while they provide quality patient care to these very ill patients,” ONA president Linda Haslam-Stroud said in a release. “As nurses, we should never have to face violent attacks while providing the care our patients require. Our patients and our RNs will be safer for this decision. Violence is not part of our job.”
A verdict in another Occupational Health and Safety Act trial involving The Royal’s Carling Avenue recovery unit is expect later this month. In that incident, three nurses were injured when attacked by a male patient.
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
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