Nurses praise parliamentary report on violence in health care
June 20, 2019
The Parliamentary Health Committee has released its report into violence in health care which makes a number of recommendations championed by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU.)
“Nurses are delighted that our urgent call to address the epidemic of violence in health care has been heeded in the health committee’s report,” says Linda Silas, president of the CFNU. “It’s high time that our federal government helped ensure health care workers can do their jobs without being subjected to staggering rates of physical and verbal abuse.”
Canada's nurses call on each party to heed the report's recommendations and commit to concrete action on the issue of violence against health-care workers if they are voted into power in the next federal election.
The committee’s full report can be accessed here.
