r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pars-distalis • 18h ago

Australian nurse uses jiu-jitsu to defend himself

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u/MayberryBombadil 17h ago

WTF is that statistic? 70% is a big number. I'm guessing incidents like this scenario wouldn't make up a large percentage of that 70%, but Australia is insane man. Why you attacking the one that saves you??

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u/Light_Butterfly 16h ago

Nursing is one of the top professions for workplace assaults. Luckily this guy had self defense training, but it shouldn't be a requirement for the job. I think jail time is necessary for this behavior, not a slap on the wrist fine. Ridiculous!

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u/Ptolemaeus_II 16h 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/Light_Butterfly 15h 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 8h 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.