The B-C Nurses Union will be pursuing legal action any time a nurse is assaulted on the job.
The union has noticed that nurses are being abused in all parts of healthcare system from acute to long term care.
Vice-President Christine Sorensen says they get regular reports of this happening.
“That they are bit, spit at, hit, punched, kicked,” says Sorensen, “and so this is a regular occurrence by nurses everyday and this is just to not be tolerated any more.”
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Sorensen says they want to make sure nurses can go to work safe everyday.
Also they want to make sure that nurses don’t become patients themselves.