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Jeeesus,
*gentle hugs* poor you Dean :-(
If I were in your shoes I would take any work mans comp that would be coming my way to regroup. I would consider carefully if this were the kind of environment I feel comfortable working in and if the answer was "not anymore" I would leave the position. I know it is stressful to do that but it is a short term stress to prevent long term trauma working in this kind of violent situation. You can be a nurse in all sorts of places that don't put you in such harms way.
If you decide to stay I might consider taking the event to the bosses at the hospital where you are working to enforce changes to the security levels at the ICU. You needed back up and fast. There needs to be a better system, more eyes watching, to protect the staff.
Talk things through with your friends, family, in here...where ever you need to.
And thank you for the work you do. Nurses are the equivalent to angels in my mind.
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