A total of 1,593 nursing professionals suffered some type of aggression in the year 2017, of which 70 per cent were verbally attacked and 30 per cent physically, one of them being in the Canary Islands. The shocking figures have been released following data provided by the National Observatory of Aggression to Nurses, launched in 2018 by the General Council of Nursing. Andalusia is the autonomous community in which most cases were recorded (557) followed by Castilla y León (203) and País Vasco (184). However, in the opinion of the Secretary General of the General Council of Nursing, Diego Ayuso, this data is just the “tip of the iceberg” since in some communities there is a “bad management” of the information related to these aggressions and in others, such as Catalonia, no records are kept. “At the criminal level, what is being reported is physical aggression, but many more suffer from verbal and psychologically abuse which affecta the professional in a very important way. If someone comes to work and insults you or threatens you, that generates instability, anxiety and enormous stress, which of course a professional nurse should not have to suffer, ” said Diego Ayuso. Hospitals, health centres and institutions have been urged to keep records and to remind staff of coverage by the civil liability policies (legal assistance as a result of physical assault suffered by the nurse) . “The ultimate goal is to stop the scourge of assaults on healthcare personnel, as well as their impact on the health and safety of the professionals affected, it has the capacity to have a negative effect on the performance of the health activity and the quality of the health welfare service that lend to all citizens, “Pérez Raya said.
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