Senate Bill 240 would provide new solutions to stop on-the-job assaults and protections for those who report workplace violence.
Texas nurses can breathe a sigh of relief after the passage of Senate Bill 240, which will protect health care personnel from workplace violence.
Officials from the Texas Nurses Association (TNA) said out of the average number of nurses in Texas, about half of them will be subjected to some sort of physical violence at one point in their career.
"That is an extremely high number. Another thing that I think helps put this in perspective is that there's some national research that shows that health care workers and nurses, in particular, are about four times more likely to be subjected to physical violence in the workplace than any other profession," said Jack Frazee, director of Government Affairs at the TNA.