{"id":262127,"date":"2025-10-31T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262127\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:21:19","slug":"nurses-union-confronts-essentia-health-after-recent-on-duty-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262127\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses union confronts Essentia Health after recent on-duty assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Rubesch said violence against health care workers, patients and their families is a weekly, if not daily, occurrence. Oftentimes, it\u2019s a patient with dementia who is sundowning, experiencing increased confusing as daylight wanes, and potentially becoming violent. It\u2019s not someone who requires law enforcement, but a scenario that could benefit from extra staffing, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cWhen I don\u2019t get that staff needed to help me make sure that patient isn\u2019t falling, isn\u2019t wandering away, isn\u2019t hitting myself or my [certified nursing assistant] who is trying to keep that patient safe, that creates a very dangerous situation for everyone involved,\u201d Rubesch said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rubesch said violence against health care workers, patients and their families is a weekly, if not daily, occurrence.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-262127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}