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US hospitals outfitting nurses with panic buttons amid rise in assaults
Violence against healthcare workers from patients and families has increased during the pandemic
In 2019, Laura Paul, a registered nurse, was seeing a sedated patient in the intensive care unit at Cox Medical Center Branson in south-west Missouri when “he went from out cold to swinging in a matter of seconds,” she said.
Paul, a house supervisor who moves among different units of the hospital, tried to dodge the patient’s attack and screamed for help.
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