"Workplace violence" defined. [Effective July 1, 2020.]

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"Workplace violence" means any act of violence or threat of violence that occurs at a medical facility, except for a lawful act of self-defense or defense of another person. The term includes, without limitation:

1. The use or threatened use of physical force against an employee or other provider of care, regardless of whether the employee or other provider of care is physically or psychologically injured; and

2. An incident involving the use or threatened use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, regardless of whether an employee or other provider of care is physically or psychologically injured.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 3673, effective July 1, 2020)


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