subject: Self Defense Products-why Nurses Need Them-top Three Reasons [print this page] I've spent so many hours in hospitals and doctors offices in the last 10 years I feel like I know most nurses in the country. What I didn't know is the potential danger that nurses are in on a day-to-day basis in performing their job.
For example, did you know that the international Association for Healthcare Security and Safety reports that almost two thirds of all healthcare facilities are in areas that are average or above-average in violent crime risk?
It is common knowledge that hospitals are understaffed. This causes increased stress for this staff, which treats drug and alcohol abusers in emergency rooms on a daily basis. This places them at risk for increased assaults, beatings, shootings, and even rapes and stabbings.
Of the estimated 1000 murders and 1.5 million assaults in the workplace every year it has been reported that nearly two thirds of them occur in healthcare settings with nearly 50 percent of all nurses being affected by violence in the workplace.
On top all of that women are the targets of violence in the general population by 9 to1 margin over men with everything from domestic violence to carjackings from street assaults to home invasions, women are the desired targets 90 poercent of the time.
So what are nurses supposed to do? I recommend that they start by taking a basic self-defense course. This will increase their confidence and a basic self-defense course will help them defend themselves in 80 percent of all assault situation.
Then the next step will be to get some self defense products. Self defense tools are meant to give you time to get away from a dangerous situation and seek help. Pepper sprays, stun guns, and tasers are the most common. Using a pepper spray inside a hospital is not a good idea but a stun gun is. I would save the pepper spray for outside the hospital where risks still exist.
Take some steps to protect your self in a hospital setting with the best self defense products for nurses.
I always advise that if you feel threatened to hold up your stun gun and warn "back off." Sometimes the sounds and flying sparks of a charging stun gun are enough to scare the bad guys away.
If you think crime can only happen to the other guy you are wrong. The "other guy" is thinking the same thing and to him you are that "other guy". There is a reason why they call it self defense. You have to protect yourself, your family, your home and business!!
Chances are if you are reading this that crime has touched your life in some way or you consider yourself at risk. Take the next step and do something to protect yourself! Your life and safety is worth far more than the cost of one of these.
If you are in the market for a self defense product look for quality, effectiveness, and a biggie-LEGALITY. Stun guns and tasers are not legal in some states. Check with your local police department first before you get one.
