Hospital violence blight
THE Townsville Hospital and Health Service has the third highest number of reported work violence incidents in Queensland.
Data from Queensland Health shows the Townsville HHS, which includes the Townsville University Hospital where the majority of patients are treated, and a number of North Queensland health facilities including on Magnetic and Palm islands, recorded 907 incidents in the last financial year.
It comes as an unemployed mum was sent to jail after a vicious attack on two nurses at Townsville University Hospital acute mental health unit. It was the woman’s third attack against a nurse in four days.
Close to 10,000 incidents were reported across hospitals and facilities in Queensland in 2018-19.
Staff working for the Gold Coast HHS reported nearly 200 fewer incidents of physical and threatened violence as well as verbal abuse, and nearly 470 fewer at the Sunshine Coast HHS.
There was a drop of 71 incidents reported at the Townsville HHS from the 2017-18 financial year of 978, but an increase of 150 from 2016-17.
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IT’S often believed that life can be that little bit tougher for those sporting ginger hair, but for one Townsville bloke with a burgundy beard it’s not all bad news.
Stewart Locke is getting married on Australia Day, and if new research is to be believed, his chin fuzz just pital Emergency Department director Dr Luke Lawton said the impacts on staff were “devastating” and they deserved to be safe at work.
“We come to work to help people. Unfortunately for us verbal threats or actual violence are daily occurrences,” he said. “It contributes to things like burnout and people leaving. In the ED it occasionally results in a serious assault of a staff member.
“We don’t have any time for violence or property damage at all and we refer such matters to the police when it happens.” might have played a significant part.
A report from the Royal Society of Open Research, carried out by the University of Queensland, shows that women judged men with beards to be more attractive than their clean cut brethren.
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Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union Townsville organiser Nicola de Jongh said the number of incidents was “unacceptable” and the union was working with executives on violence and safety.
Townsville Hospital and Health Service chief executive Kieran Keyes said it was difficult to compare data between HHSS because of the variation in “size and scope”.
“Townsville University Hospital is the largest tertiary health facility in Northern Australia and one of the busiest,” he said.
TOWNSVILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IS THE LARGEST TERTIARY HEALTH FACILITY IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND ONE OF THE BUSIEST
“Everyone’s got their own taste, but I get a lot of comments about how red it is, and luscious,” Mr Locke said.
“I’ve grown it since 2016 and have trimmed it twice, it’s been down past my chest.
“(You need) testosterone, manliness and you’ve just got to trim it every now and then.”
And as for his wife to be?
“She loves it, she liked me having a long beard but I needed to shave it, I got sick of combing it,” Mr Locke said.
For those men struggling with facial growth, or those unfortunate few whose workplaces force them to shave, it’s not all doom and gloom with the report showing single women wanting kids were more likely to seek a clean shaven man.