Jennyb98

If you were not allowed to leave the confused patient alone then perhaps it would have been more prudent to make him a 1:1, otherwise you cannot be in two places at once. Was there a bed alarm on him that no one responded to? And how do you keep intubated patients from grabbing the tubes if you're not allowed restraints? I'm confused. I have a new appreciation for my ICU. As for the fall post shift change, you should not be solely responsible for that one. Even with a chair alarm, the nurse was at the bedside. How would the scenario have changed with a chair alarm? Would it have enabled an invisible force field preventing the standing of a patient. No.

My hospital actually had an active shooter situation a few years ago. A distraught man came to the ER very angry because we couldn't manage his pain. He took the nurses and docs hostage for several hours before he finally took his own life. Fortunately I wasn't one of those nurses, and I can't imagine what they went through but I think I would have appreciated any form of self defense I could get my hands on at that point.