Originally Posted by
Joshua
I have been perusing this thread about violence toward nurses and I have a question.
I am a male and I have an extreme amount of patience and self control. I also boxed for quite a few years. If I am attacked by a patient and I mean seriously attacked at what point am I able to defend myself? If I am being pummeled or assaulted with a weapon by a patient and cannot get away would I be fired for punching and possibly knocking the violent patient unconscience and/or causing even more harm to them than what they originally came to the ER for? I hate even thinking about it but the "what-if"scenarios do sometimes happen.
Has anything like this happened before? Nurses fighting back?