Some nurses and personal support workers reported working in areas where alarm systems were broken or non-existent. Some health care staff said they were given personal alarms for violent assaults; others said all they could do was scream. Her work has shown that Canadian health care workers experience six times the incidents of physical violence than their Scandinavian counterparts. Armstrong said the growing body of part-time, temporary and precarious nurses and personal support workers in Canada makes them uniquely vulnerable. But he says he wants government to mandate provincewide safety measures to protect health care workers on the job.

Source: thestar November 25, 2017 13:07 UTC