Governor Andy Beshear was at Galen College of Nursing in Louisville Friday morning for the ceremonial signing of a bill designed to keep nurses safer.
House Bill 176 deals with workplace violence. It puts Kentucky on par with 10 other states by implementing violence prevention measures that include collecting information and reporting cases of violence against healthcare workers.
Officials have said the issue has only gotten worse since COVID hit.
One nurse said more than half of nurses have reported some type of workplace violence. Of those reported incidents, two-thirds involved some type of injury. She said the largest threat were patients and their family members.
The fear of violence isn’t helping the nationwide nursing shortage either.
Beshear said there are hundreds, if not thousands of nursing jobs available across Kentucky right now.
Source: WAVE
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