I am a nurse in a hospital for 20 years with an exemplary career. I had an incident with a pt over the weekend and this pt scratched ,kicked, punched me and was verbally abusive. the pt was drunk. i responded to the pt by trying to physically restrain her and used the palm of my hand to push her onto her pillow before i had further harm to myself. one other nurse was in the room. i followed my workplace violence policy and reported the incident to my supervisor. because of this i was terminated today..and reported to the misconduct board..what do you think. i am afraid i have not only lost my job but lost my liscense as well. when questioned the other nurse said i slapped the pt..when i was clearly trying to maintain a safe space between me and injury