title: Safety alert: protecting yourself and others from violence.
authors.affiliation: Charlotte Davis is a CCU/CVICU staff nurse at Heritage Medical Center in Shelbyville, Tenn., and Alvin C. York VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Denise Landon is an MICU staff nurse at Olin Teague Veterans Medical Center in Temple, Tex. Kandie Brothers is nursing clinical faculty/prevention and management of disruptive behavior coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Landon
authors.forename: Kandie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brothers
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D012306:Risk; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*