"practicing battlefield medicine in the ER"

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

ERs Prepare For Another Battle Front

For Hospital Workers, The Threat Is Personal

By Susan Levine

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, March 24, 2003; Page B01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16076-2003Mar23.html

[renerian, BSN, RN]

Very sad but a reality..........

renerian

[oramar]

So you know what is really sad. When I read the title to that article my first thought was that it was going to be about violence against nurses by patients and families. Bioterror is a reality but most nurses are in much graver danger from beligerant and violent patients and family. We won't get into the fact that there is a killer plague coming. That is being discussed elsewhere.