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Emergency Department Violence Stories

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Patient area with no security

A nurse was hospitalized with multiple injuries after being attacked in the hallway.

That’s a patient care area with no security presence and the response was delayed.

- An emergency physician from Ohio

Locked in a room for safety

With only one person providing security, a patient needing mental health care was running around and...

Patient with a knife

There are examples nearly every week.

Bitten so hard she needed surgery

A nurse was punched in the face.

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