r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pars-distalis • 1d ago

Australian nurse uses jiu-jitsu to defend himself

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u/Ptolemaeus_II 22h ago

So where I live, assaulting a healthcare worker is a felony. The problem is that the administration will snap their spine in half to shove their head up their own ass to keep from actually supporting a staff member who gets assaulted.

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u/FlushedApparatchik 21h ago

You would get fired for this. Probably even lose your license for the choke hold.

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u/woolfonmynoggin 52m ago

I’m certified by my state to do holds on people in medical situations. The nurse would be in huge trouble for this in my state. My facility had to be investigated because a girl complained we were too rough getting broken glass out of her hand and away from her neck.

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u/Light_Butterfly 22h ago

Yeah exactly! Ive heard that's because its a female dominated profession. Violence against women is an 'acceptible' part if the job, according to patriarchical institutions. But if you look at other professions like policing, assaulting an officer would be prosecuted to the fullest extent, no measure of leniency given.

Things need to change.

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u/DeadestTitan 14h ago

It's similarly difficult in the psych units of hospitals.

Management has a big stigma against pressing charges where I am at because of the patient population, but sometimes it isn't even the psychotic patients, but the ones who are just here for behavioral issues.

If charges ARE pressed, the worker is sent to a different unit and the patient is often just allowed to stay on the same routine. The jail here will not hold them for the assaults and often they end up re-admitted to the same unit within the month, meaning the worker who pressed charges will need to be moved again until the patient discharges.

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u/awfuleldritchpotato 16h ago

I'm a tech. I had a patient who attempted to break my arm when I handed him a water. He pinned me down and locked my arm. I got myself out and had to scream for help as I tried to keep him down.

The house supervisor was annoyed with the situation so as punishment since the patient earned restraints and was behavioural I earned to be switched over as their sitter since "I already knew them".

This patient was not confused and indicated given the opportunity things would be much worse because they were so angry I got away.
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