Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A St. Paul firefighter who was fired by the city after using carotid artery pressure points to subdue a combative patient lost his ...

A new survey from Premier has found that 40% of healthcare workers have experienced at least one incident of workplace violence within the past two years, with the violence occurring most frequently ...

JACKSON, MI – A nurse at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital was stabbed while on the job last week when a patient became combative and pulled out a knife. Police were called at about 7 a.m., Feb. 13, to the ...

LMPD was dispatched to UofL Health Jewish Hospital regarding a "combative patient" fighting security. The incident led to the patient being handcuffed to a wheelchair until police arrived. UofL Health ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — A caretaker at a Mount Pleasant facility is suspected of assaulting a memory care patient. Sukinah Misyulina Knox, 45, is charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult. She ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

Recently, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services issued an order that Tewksbury Hospital security officers will no longer carry or use non-lethal and defensive tactical equipment like ...

Hennepin Healthcare is phasing out the use of handcuffs by its paramedics to secure unruly patients, after its leaders checked and discovered that its urban ambulance agency was among the last in the ...

A medical transport helicopter made an emergency landing in Belleview, Fla., Wednesday morning due to an unruly patient on board, reports Ocala Star-Banner. The ShandsCair helicopter was transporting ...

LEBANON — A Middletown man who was a patient at Atrium Medical Center last summer was indicted for assaulting two nurses. James Taylor, 49, was indicted by a Warren County Grand Jury Friday on charges ...