Thanks NH,

We have code "cheat sheets" as well that folks wear on their armbands, and since I work on a medical/psychiatric hybrid unit, I get to respond to the violent individual codes paged overhead.

In recent years, we had a hospital in the area that had one of it's nurses go in and kill his soon to be ex-wife before suiciding.

Fortunately, there were only two deaths with that incident.

I just worry that in any hospital there is this huge population of vulnerable people in a contained area and I'm wanting to have some mechanism in place for dealing with that.

I sit on the Emergency Team as a bedside nurse so I'm limited in what info I'm privy to and what effect I can have.

Also as the newbie on the team, I'm very aware of not wanting to step on too many toes in the process.

But I figured I'd stick my neck out see what info I could offer them.