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The Need for Healthcare Worker’s Background Checks

The quantity of abuses found in healthcare are legion.   It’s really kind of nuts when you allow for abuses against the elderly and children,  theft, be it stealing for patients or stealing drugs.   There is physical abuse and mental abuse.   In some cases, patients enter healthcare facilities and emerge perhaps in worst shape than when they first came in.

Mot healthcare workers are conscientious and got into the industry because of their desire to help people.   They are patient souls for the most part, because many of them are also subject to abuse from their patients.   It’s a two way street working here.   Patients who are frustrated with the facility, healthcare, or maybe their lives lash out at the staff that is trying to help them.   Most healthcare workers, according to recent reports, may not like the abuse but accept it as part of the job.   Must be something going to work everyday knowing some frustrated patient will want to take it out on you.  As a matter of fact, the Tacoma New Tribune recently reported the most violent job in Washington State isn’t a cop or fireman.   It is a nurse’s aide.

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By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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