Figure 2
Percentage reporting emotional abuse by a patient over past 12 months, by clinical area of employment, nurses providing direct care in hospitals or long-term care facilities, Canada, 2005

* significantly different from estimate for total
Source: 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses.
Figure source: Statistics Canada, 2009, "Factors related to on-the-job abuse of nurses by patients", Health Reports, Vol. 20, No. 2, catalogue number 82-003-X.