According to a 2022 survey from the American College of Emergency Physicians, workplace violence has steadily increased since 2017, with the vast majority of assaults being committed by patients . Another recent report in 2022 found that 57 nurses were assaulted every day between April 1 and June 30, a total of over 1,700 assaults per month . There were 207 workplace violence deaths in healthcare between 2016 and 2020 .