Sioban Nelson, Kathleen Leslie, Aleah McCormick, JohnPaul Gonsalves, Andrea Baumann, Natalie J Thiessen, Catharine Schiller
Workplace violence against nurses is a significant global occupational health problem, with incidents of violence increasing in frequency since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In this article, we provide a review of recent legislative amendments meant to bolster workplace safety in health care in Canada, analyze legal cases where nurses were the victims of violence, and discuss what these legal reforms and decisions reveal about how nurses' work is treated within the Canadian legal system. Under criminal law, the limited number of cases we could find with oral or written sentencing decisions show that, historically, the fact a victim was a nurse was not always considered an aggravating factor on sentencing...
July 4, 2023: Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice