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Should nurses ever be assigned challenging patients based on their sex?

A panel of nurses discuss whether nursing employers can balance the imperative to protect staff from violence in a way that does not have the effect of discriminating against some workers. They reflect on the case of a male healthcare assistant who was repeatedly called on at work to manage violent or aggressive patients on grounds of his sex and won substantial compensation for sex discrimination.

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ex discrimination against men in nursing: male staff member appears under stress, female colleagues in the background

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