By: Response by Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, FAAN, ANEF
One of the hospitals in our system recently
experienced an active shooter. The nursing
staff reached out to our ethics team
expressing concerns that our current training involving Run-Hide-Fight feels like abandonment of their
patients and expressed concern about losing their
licenses because they ran from the unit where the shooting took place. Some apparently didn’t leave due to this concern and a couple even went toward the event to help the victim.
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