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Beheading, the Brand New Twist on Workplace Violence

Studies show workplace violence has been on the increase for a number of years now.   In some industries in particular the incidents of workplaces violence have multiplied at alarming rates.   The healthcare industry is one such industry where healthcare workers, nurses, attendants, are submitted to everything from verbal epithets to physical violence.

Now we have a new twist on workplace violence.  Beheading.  Following the gruesome beheading, in Oklahoma, it appears another employee wants to saw the heads off his fellow co-workers.

According to the New York Daily News…”An Oklahoma ISIS terrorist wannabe vowed to behead his co-worker because she was a Christian, police said — just a day after another Oklahoma man decapitated a colleague during a bloody rampage on his former workplace.

Police arrested 30-year-old Jacob Mugambi Muriithi Friday on a terrorism complaint. His co-worker at Bellevue Nursing Home told officers he threatened to behead her in the name of ISIS.”‘

So we have to start asking, just who are we hiring here in a nation with its fair share of societal problems?   Besides past criminal, will background checks reveal more  about these apparent  nut jobs who permeate our national work force?    That appears to be the case with  Alton Nolen, who did have a criminal history.   Or are these employees undetectable in the majority of cases?  Worse, still, how many more incidents like this will we see, taking workplace violence to the extreme?

The bottom line is that healthcare workers really don’t need to subject themselves to this type of treatment, either from their patients who fellow employees.  There comes a time when one too many incidents like this, or even on a lesser scale, cause  our healthcare workers to dread coming to the job.   If there is ultimately a reduction in people who want to enter the healthcare industry, the nation will suffer.  As much of our population ages, this is one industry that needs to grow, accordingly.   And not decline.

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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