{"id":903920,"date":"2026-09-24T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903920\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:22:31","slug":"patient-picked-wrong-nurse-to-attack-this-rn-knew-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903920\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient picked wrong nurse to attack \u2014 this RN knew martial arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Nelson has been dubbed the \u2018Jiu-jitsu Nurse\u2019 after a video of him tackling an aggressive patient to the ground using well-honed martial arts skills went viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the RN says he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7489438093347827712\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7489438093347827712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shared the CCTV footage<\/a> on social media to make a serious point about violence against healthcare workers, who shouldn\u2019t have to accept it as \u201cpart of the job\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event took place two years ago, during a night shift at the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital, when he overheard an intoxicated patient being abusive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe patient had been verbally abusing staff, spitting on the floor and behaving aggressively,\u201d Mr Nelson, an Australian Army nurse who\u2019d been on placement at the time, said in a LinkedIn post last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Nelson has been dubbed the \u2018Jiu-jitsu Nurse\u2019 after a video of him tackling an aggressive patient to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-903920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}