What do you think of workplace violence - Patient versus Nurse??

Not acceptable. the patient should be refused service.

Well any work place violence is no good.. but in some cases the person may be unaware of what is going on and confused and may not realize that they are actually hurting you. Like someone in a bad accident who is confused and frightened. I guess every case is different and should be treated accordingly

I don't condone violence per se, but depends on what caused it. Is it Dr. Kevorkian's nursing staff ? Is the patient defending him/herself against something wrong being done to him/her? I have heard many stories of malpractice and unkind treatment from nurses, (nurses get overburdened with work and responsibility and have frustrations too), and the patient is often the captive target of it, just an object to be worked on instead of a person, so maybe he/she is trying to stop the wrong treatment, get attention, and needs to be reviewed and understood instead of automatically blame and further mistreatment.

On the other hand, if the nurse is trying to kindly help the patient, but the patient strikes out, thats deplorable and unfortunate. It should be prevented in the future for sure.

Handle the issue with unbiased investigation, and insight, and search for understanding and correcting whatever developed it, not ignorance and fascistic blame and retaliation and further mistreatment or neglect of the patient. We need to keep nurses safe, but also need to understand and help patients. The idea is nobody should be mistreated or harmed.

here shouldn't be no violence at a work place, but it does happen. In an environment where there are patience and nurse somethings going to happen.. first of all that patience is not happy being there and is probably ion all kinds of prescriptions, sometimes the nurse are very inpatient with them. some nurses think that they can do what they want with this patient. nurses now at days are very rude and hateful.. that's why there are sometimes confrontations between them.