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Posted 11 months ago I need some advice or direction. I am a med/surg nurse with 1 1/2 years experience. Recently, my floor has been named the "custody" floor. I am trying to organize a petition to receive hazard pay. The petition is completed with 80% of the floor employees signature. Our floor doesn't have the security, other than the correctional guards (2 guards to each inmate), to keep the inmates family or other people of the unit. There was an situation, where an inmate was being brought from the ED, and low and behold the inmates mother was in the lobby to see her son. She knew where he was going before the guards did. Also, at any given time we get 30+ guards on our floor. In addition to the inmates, we also receive the long term patients with pysciatric issues. For example, there was a patient that we had who had been in restraints for a year. It took at least 3 people to change him because he was so violent. We now have a pt that is in restaints who is also aggresive. The purpose of this discussion is for any one to help me with managment to ask for hazard pay and ask for a more secured area. I appreciate your time thanks. |
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| Posted 11 months ago Wow, that's a tough one. But you might enlighten them that incidents have happened at other hospitals. Let me tell you about Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. In 1996, we had a prisoner on a medical unit that obtained the gun of the guard that was watching him. He took the gun and held a CNA's hostage, as he went through the hospital. He exchanged them for 2 male OR orderlies, and there was about a 3 hour standoff with the Sheriffs department until they talked him down. One of the male orderlies had a heart attack, during the ordeal. I was working in the rehab unit, 3 floors down from the unit this took place on. The hospital had to shut down the elevator, and we were instructed to block off the stairwell doors as best we could. I was scared schitless, the entire time this was going on. A man with a gun goes where he wants. The bad thing was, administration had been told repeatedly by staff that the prisoner/guard setup was an accident waiting to happen. Additionally, we had a nurse that got shot on her way into the hospital at 0600 by a crackhead. Fortunately for her she lived. But she wound up quitting. When I left Halifax, I went to LTC for a while. The following are partial news articles on what happened....from the Daytona Beach News Journal
HALIFAX ORDERLIES HONORED Article 6 of 10 found Three Halifax Medical Center orderlies who remained calm while being held hostage by a prisoner who had overpowered his guard have been honored with Medallions of Valor.
Hospital Chief Executive Officer Ron Rees said Gregory Kennedy, John Duffy and a third orderly who did not want to be identified publicly acted with ``extraordinary courage.'' Paul O'Neil Stovall, 25, Daytona Beach, faces multiple charges in the Aug. 1 hostage ordeal at the hospital. HOSPITAL, EX-HOSTAGE BREATHE A LITTLE EASIER Article 9 of 10 found Gregory Kennedy wasn't sure who should be more nervous: himself and two other Halifax Medical Center employees held hostage Thursday or the escaped prisoner pointing a stolen gun at them.
``We were just sitting down enjoying our lunch break. It happened that fast,'' the 32-year-old orderly said Friday. ``I couldn't sleep last night. ``When I close my eyes, I can still see that gun STANDOFF ENDS PEACEFULLY Article 10 of 10 found A prisoner being treated at Halifax Medical Center jumped a Daytona Beach police officer, took her pistol and held three hospital employees hostage during a three-hour standoff Thursday.
After speaking with a hostage negotiator, 25-year-old Paul O'Neil Stovall traded two hostages and the magazine to the 9mm pistol for a couple of cigarettes. After talking some more, he surrendered the last hostage and the pistol before giving up peacefully at about 8:30 p.m. He was being held
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| Posted 11 months ago Good luck with that. I work the forensic unit and we are a mental facility with MULTIPLE injuries beatings, etc. but they dont and would not consider hazard pay. |
