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It’s probably obvious that hospitals can be high stress environments, and it’s not just patients who can get agitated and upset. Sometimes it’s also co-workers. Last week, we heard about how some see tolerating violence in health care as part of the job. In the latest installment in our series Part Of The Job , we look at how health care educators have been trying to change that culture of harassment and violence before their students reach the workforce. This idea wasn’t always discussed in college courses, though. Ray Purcell is a nurse practitioner, and spent three decades in private practice and hospitals in Kern County. In those settings, he says he saw his fair share of violence. He says one night when he was working in the urgent care facility, he upset a coworker. “It was at the end of the shift, it was about midnight. Staff was just going home. They were kept over late, and, the physician chose to confront me in a dark parking lot, was very angry, and it’s terrifying,” Purcell
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