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The increase in violence in hospital emergency rooms continues to make headlines due to recent incidents, the latest involving a gunman who shot a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, according to a recent article on the CNN website.
Read more: Growing Trend in Emergency Room Violence…
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Read CEO Tony Jace’s latest entry in the CPI Executive Blog about how some states are passing laws that consider violent assaults against health care workers to be felonies.
View Assaults in Health Care Are Felonies in Some States in its entirety.
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The Seattle Department of Corrections is incorporating violence prevention training as a part of a strategy to decrease violence in its prisons, according to a recent article in The Seattle Times.
Read more: Prison Credits Training for Decrease in Violence…
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A recent study in the Criminology journal reveals that teens who gather informally without adult supervision are more likely to engage in violent behavior, according to an article in the School Library Journal.
Read more: Study Indicates Less Structure Among Teens Leads to Violence…
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Officials at the Central Library in Winston-Salem, N.C. are struggling with the challenge of changing the library’s image as a gathering spot for the homeless as city leaders prepare to embark on a $28 million library remodel.
Read more: Library Aims to Serve all Patrons…
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On July 2, 2010, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a law that will increase penalties for those who assault nurses and other health care workers.
The law was passed in response to the increase in workplace violence in health care settings.
Read more: Massachusetts Passes Law to Protect Health Care Workers…
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Ontario Bill 168 presents new rules on workplace violence and harassment, some of which are more potentially more complicated for Canadian fire departments, according to an article in the May 2010 issue of Firefighting in Canada.
Read more: Canadian Fire Departments Assess Impact of Ontario Bill 168…
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