The Tulsa Shooting Is a Reminder Health Care Workers Face Violence Every Day
, has also contributed to an increasingly tense atmosphere at the hospital, says Bennett. In the decades she’s worked as a nurse, she says, there have been many times she was the “only Black face in the room” partly due to discriminatory hospital hiring practices. “I don’t think I would have been around this long if I didn’t fight,” says Bennett. “I fought many battles in this hospital.
Even while health care workers face greater challenges during the pandemic, they have less support. Understaffing is rife in U.S. health care, in part because patients have been sicker during the COVID-19 crisis and require more attentive care. As a result, patients don’t always get the care they want as quickly as they expect it, which can result in conflict.
Living with such a high risk of violence is clearly untenable, in the long term. Gordon argues that it’s key to train health care workers for violence, and to make it more difficult for people with violent intent to get into hospitals—which, he admits, is a challenge, because hospitals are designed to welcome people, not to lock down. Dionne, Bennett, and DeNisco all say they are tired of hospitals reacting to violence, instead of heading off problems.
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