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Responding during an active shooter situation

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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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