not “feeding into” racism vs protecting staff
We had an extremely belligerent drunk guy come into the ER, I was not primary nurse but helped get him on the monitors. He was sleeping at first but soon perked up and started screaming things like “I hate Muslims” “I hate black people” “I hate people who aren’t American”. This went on for a few minutes and then I eventually left the room. I’m pretty close with the charge nurse overnight and she asked for some help on making the day assignment. I noticed the person who was assigned to him is a black nurse and I told her I don’t think that’s a good idea. Another staff member said something along the lines of “we shouldn’t feed into racism” “we can’t let him get away with that” but I feel like staff shouldn’t be subjected to racism. On one hand, maybe the staff member should assess the situation and see if they are comfortable on the other hand we could avoid assigning nurses to patients who we know specifically target certain groups. Thoughts?
Edit: typo