Delnor Hospital hostage situation

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I don't know if it has been posted, I did not find a thread when I searched, but if there is one please merge

[h=1]Deputy ran and hid after inmate stole weapon, took hostages at hospital: lawsuit[/h]Deputy ran and hid after inmate stole weapon, took hostages at hospital: lawsuit - Aurora Beacon-News

So basically the nurses were tortured and raped because the guard did not follow policy and procedure.

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Specializes in ICU.

If it weren't against TOS, someone might tell you to pull your head out of your bum and stop trolling...

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If it weren't against TOS, someone might tell you to pull your head out of your bum and stop trolling...

Huh? How is OP "trolling"?

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Huh? How is OP "trolling"?

Glad I'm not the only one at a loss.

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Wow...

I have worked two doubles after posting this, so I was not able to get back to Allnurses. I regularly work close to 55 hours a week and I don't live and breathe message boards, I try to do other things with what little time off I have. I used to be here under a different user name. I remember now why I left.

Nurses here don't care about the real issues, such as the lack of support for those on the "front lines". I am sure most nurses at the bedside either know of someone who has been attacked by a patient ( and not a "sundowning" patient), or has been attacked themselves. I personally have been choked, punched and shoved on different occasions; and I will never go back to bedside nursing because of this. I have had a prison guard drop a gun on my foot because it was not secured, luckily the prisoner was not within reach of the gun and shackled to the bed. I know a nurse that was stabbed while at work.

I posted this to hopefully engage a meaningful conversation about the violence against healthcare workers. I know that I do not post a lot, but this is a topic that is relevant and concerns ALL healthcare workers. It is not a serious crime to attack healthcare workers in most states, and we cannot defend ourselves meaningfully.

Anyways, it doesn't matter. I will let allnurses go back to it's regularly scheduled programming of "my coworkers are so mean" and "nurses eat their young".

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Wow...

I have worked two doubles after posting this, so I was not able to get back to Allnurses. I regularly work close to 55 hours a week and I don't live and breathe message boards, I try to do other things with what little time off I have. I used to be here under a different user name. I remember now why I left.

Nurses here don't care about the real issues, such as the lack of support for those on the "front lines". I am sure most nurses at the bedside either know of someone who has been attacked by a patient ( and not a "sundowning" patient), or has been attacked themselves. I personally have been choked, punched and shoved on different occasions; and I will never go back to bedside nursing because of this. I have had a prison guard drop a gun on my foot because it was not secured, luckily the prisoner was not within reach of the gun and shackled to the bed. I know a nurse that was stabbed while at work.

I posted this to hopefully engage a meaningful conversation about the violence against healthcare workers. I know that I do not post a lot, but this is a topic that is relevant and concerns ALL healthcare workers. It is not a serious crime to attack healthcare workers in most states, and we cannot defend ourselves meaningfully.

Anyways, it doesn't matter. I will let allnurses go back to it's regularly scheduled programming of "my coworkers are so mean" and "nurses eat their young".

I'm sorry this thread got side tracked by the ignorant poster.

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Teacup RN, thanks for posting. We have had long discussions about the increase in workplace violence. We are healers but find ourselves in the midst of just the opposite.

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This is totally inappropriate.

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This is totally inappropriate.

Sorry, this was meant in response to that negative post. í ½í¸£

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I remember reading the initial coverage of this when news reports kept saying "the nurses were uninjured" thinking "holy cow, how awful but it could have been so much worse." It made me so angry when the story changed. I can't even imagine what those nurses went through.

We get prisoners occasionally on our floor. There is always a deputy right at the bedside and the prisoner/patient is never not handcuffed at the very least. I have never even seen a deputy use the bathroom in the hours they sit with a patient/prisoner. They never use a phone, computer, ANYTHING while guarding a patient/prisoner. Whenever we have any interaction with the patient the officer stands right next to the bed. When the officers change shift the oncoming even takes a report from us nurses to find out if there are any issues.

This horrible incident makes me very thankful for the law enforcement officers who work with us when we have prisoners on our floor.

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