❓ WA Parliamentary Question on Notice regarding assaults against nurses and related incidents (sick leave, resignations, Code Blacks) within the WA health system for January-March 2012 and 2013. The response provides data for WA Country Health Services (WACHS) and Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS), but lacks comprehensive data for all requested categories.
AnsweredQoN 385Legislative Assembly
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For each month from January to March 2012, and from January to March 2013, would the Minister please provide: (a) the number of assaults recorded against nurses in the Western Australian health system; (b) the hospitals that those assaults occurred at; (c) the area/department of the hospital at which those assaults occurred; (d) the number of assaults reported to police; (e) the number of convictions that arose from those assaults; (f) the number of nurses that took sick or stress leave as a result of those assaults; (g) the total number of hours sick leave and stress leave taken as a result of those assaults; (h) the number of nurses that resigned or retired as a result of an assault; and (i) the total number of Code Blacks and at which hospitals they occurred?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
6 August 2013
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
56 days
WA Country Health Services (WACHS)
(a)
2012
2013
January
13
4
February
8
8
March
9
3
Total
30
15
(b) Pilbara Region Hedland Health Campus and Nickol Bay Hospital
South West Region Bunbury, Harvey and Busselton Hospitals
Kimberly Region Broome, Halls Creek and Kununurra Hospitals, Community Health Facilities and Remote Communities
Wheatbelt Region Bruce Rock, Narrogin and Wongon Hills Hospitals
Goldfields region Kalgoorlie and Leonora Hospitals
Midwest region Geraldton Hospital
Great Southern region Denmark and Albany Hospitals
(c) Emergency Departments, medical wards, paediatric wards, mental health units, general wards and aged care wards.
(d) Nine.
(e) WACHS is unable to respond to this question. Matters regarding the courts, including convictions, are the responsibility of the Office of the Attorney General.
(f) Data regarding the number of nurses that took sick or stress leave as a result of assaults is not recorded. Employees, including nurses, are not obliged to state the reason for their personal leave.
(g) Unknown as per response to (f).
(h) Unknown. Data regarding the number of nurses that resigned or retired as a result of an assault is not recorded in the Lattice HR database as reasons why an employee resigns or terminates their employment.
(i) WACHS recorded 18 Code Blacks during this period at the Goldfields; Kalgoorlie and Leonora Hospitals.
2012
2013
January
6
3
February
2
1
March
3
3
Total
11
7
No Code Blacks were recorded within any other WACHS sites.
Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS)
(a)
2012
2013
January
2
0
February
5
4
March
1
5
Total
8
9
(b) Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (PMH).
(c) Surgical Day Procedure Unit, Ward 9A, Ward 4H, Emergency Department, Ward 5A, Ward 5B, Ward 5C, Ward 17.
(d-e) This information is not recorded by the Child and Adolescent Health Service.
(f-g) This information is not known as there is not a requirement to provide a reason for sick leave.
(h) This information is not known as there is not a requirement to provide a reason for resigning or retiring.
(i)
Jan 2012
Feb 2012
Mar 2012
Jan 2013
Feb 2013
Mar 2013
PMH
19
20
23
22
15
12
South Metropolitan Health Service and North Metropolitan Health Service
(a-i) [See tabled paper no]
(a)
2012
2013
January
13
4
February
8
8
March
9
3
Total
30
15
(b) Pilbara Region Hedland Health Campus and Nickol Bay Hospital
South West Region Bunbury, Harvey and Busselton Hospitals
Kimberly Region Broome, Halls Creek and Kununurra Hospitals, Community Health Facilities and Remote Communities
Wheatbelt Region Bruce Rock, Narrogin and Wongon Hills Hospitals
Goldfields region Kalgoorlie and Leonora Hospitals
Midwest region Geraldton Hospital
Great Southern region Denmark and Albany Hospitals
(c) Emergency Departments, medical wards, paediatric wards, mental health units, general wards and aged care wards.
(d) Nine.
(e) WACHS is unable to respond to this question. Matters regarding the courts, including convictions, are the responsibility of the Office of the Attorney General.
(f) Data regarding the number of nurses that took sick or stress leave as a result of assaults is not recorded. Employees, including nurses, are not obliged to state the reason for their personal leave.
(g) Unknown as per response to (f).
(h) Unknown. Data regarding the number of nurses that resigned or retired as a result of an assault is not recorded in the Lattice HR database as reasons why an employee resigns or terminates their employment.
(i) WACHS recorded 18 Code Blacks during this period at the Goldfields; Kalgoorlie and Leonora Hospitals.
2012
2013
January
6
3
February
2
1
March
3
3
Total
11
7
No Code Blacks were recorded within any other WACHS sites.
Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS)
(a)
2012
2013
January
2
0
February
5
4
March
1
5
Total
8
9
(b) Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (PMH).
(c) Surgical Day Procedure Unit, Ward 9A, Ward 4H, Emergency Department, Ward 5A, Ward 5B, Ward 5C, Ward 17.
(d-e) This information is not recorded by the Child and Adolescent Health Service.
(f-g) This information is not known as there is not a requirement to provide a reason for sick leave.
(h) This information is not known as there is not a requirement to provide a reason for resigning or retiring.
(i)
Jan 2012
Feb 2012
Mar 2012
Jan 2013
Feb 2013
Mar 2013
PMH
19
20
23
22
15
12
South Metropolitan Health Service and North Metropolitan Health Service
(a-i) [See tabled paper no]
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