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Three hospital staff were “significantly” injured when a mental health patient attacked them at the Emergency department of Royal Adelaide Hospital overnight. It’s the third recent incident involving mental health patients in Emergency, prompting the nurses union to call on the state government to make immediate improvements to the hospital. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA branch said the nurse attacked sustained a shoulder injury and would have to take time off work.
has been inundated by calls from distraught nurses,” a union spokesperson said. Last week, a nurse was hit by a mental health patient in Emergency, while staff working at the weekend were locked in a tearoom after a patient broke security doors. SafeWork slapped an intervention order on Royal Adelaide Hospital, directing it to improve workplace conditions that it said were putting staff at risk of psychological and physical harm.
secretary Elizabeth Dabars says investments are needed into mental health care, so patients do not end up in Emergency. “Sadly, this only serves to highlight what we have been asking the government to implement over the past 12 months, that the high-stimulus ED is not the place for mental health patients to seek treatment,” Dabars said. “There needs to be a designated ED for these patients which is purpose built and solely for their use.
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