Bill would make nurse assault a felony

[Tapout 42]

While I find this funny that (for me) it's 12 years and about 9 million bites, scratches, punches, grabs and chokes too late, it's still better late than never!

http://statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2010/01/25/bill-would-make-assault-on-nurses-a-felony/

[INIT915 1,119]

This is a good step, ER Nurses already enjoy some felony-level protections. This bill should extend it to all nurses.

NYS PL 120.05 (3)

NYS PL 120.08

[Tapout 42]

This is a good step, ER Nurses already enjoy some felony-level protections. This bill should extend it to all nurses.

NYS PL 120.05 (3)

NYS PL 120.08

Good point, but the reality is that 99% of assault cases on ED staff will go unreported, regardless of the charge and its severity. We have enough paperwork to do as it is--- to add to it if I'm still upright with all limbs intact is just honestly not worth it.

Additionally, those committing the assaults most times are mentally incapacitated in some way, either by organic illness or with the help of less-than-theraputic agents. Can the felony assault charge still "stick" on a delusional paranoid schizophrenic having a bad hair day, for example???

Edited February 16, 2010 by Tapout

[INIT915 1,119]

Good point, but the reality is that 99% of assault cases on ED staff will go unreported, regardless of the charge and its severity. We have enough paperwork to do as it is--- to add to it if I'm still upright with all limbs intact is just honestly not worth it.

Additionally, those committing the assaults most times are mentally incapacitated in some way, either by organic illness or with the help of less-than-theraputic agents. Can the felony assault charge still "stick" on a delusional paranoid schizophrenic having a bad hair day, for example???

I can't answer that yes/no. We really need to look at the intricacies of each individual case, but often, yes, we can make them stick.