Student nurse attacked at Vancouver General Hospital: Union

The unfortunate of an battle wrong Vancouver General Hospital Thursday greeting was a pupil nurse, according to the B.C. Nurses’ Union.

Vancouver constabulary said they responded to the battle astir 9 a.m. Officers arrived to find 1 idiosyncratic with superior but non-life-threatening injuries.

Police said a fishy was arrested, and that portion they person been released from constabulary custody they stay astatine the infirmary certified nether the Mental Health Act.

BC Nurses’ Union president Adriane Gear said a weapon was utilized successful the attack, and that the unfortunate suffered puncture wounds.

“I deliberation the incidental that happened yesterday astatine the Vancouver General should service arsenic a wake-up telephone for wellness employers that they request to bash more, overmuch more, to support unit and, frankly, patients safe,” she said.

“Because the conditions of enactment for nurses are truly the conditions of attraction for patients, and if nurses are feeling that they’re not harmless successful the workplace that means that they’re not feeling that their patients are safe, either.”

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Gear said the pupil caregiver is “physically OK” but traumatized by the incident.

She added if information concerns aren’t resolved for health-care workers, the state volition get obscurity successful its quest to enlistee and clasp infirmary staff.

The fishy is slated to look successful tribunal astatine a aboriginal date.