AdvertisementNationalQueenslandQueensland Health Union seizes on viral video of violent patient to renew security calls Dominique Tassell August 5, 2026 — 5:16pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Share A A AThe Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union has called for better working conditions and increased health funding, days after the Queensland government celebrated additional frontline staff, and a video of a nurse taking down an aggressive patient went viral. Secretary of the Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union Sarah Beaman (centre) with members of its council. The union said staff often blamed themselves, or worried they had initiated the incident. Beaman commended security guards at Queensland hospitals, but said there were not enough of them.