Do bodycams for hospital staff give nurses the protection they need?
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Do bodycams for hospital staff give nurses the protection they need?

Erin Dean Health journalist
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Sexual harassment and aggression is a feature of too many nurses’ working lives. Some see surveillance technology as a deterrent, but others worry it undermines trust

Nurses groped by patients and even by colleagues. Inappropriate comments about someone’s appearance. Patients masturbating while staff try to deliver care. Rape threats. These distressing incidents are too often the normalised experience of nurses at work.

Learning Disability Practice. 26, 4, 11-13. doi: 10.7748/ldp.26.4.11.s4

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07 August 2023 / Vol 26 issue 4

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