With this book, Allen educates healthcare professionals, particularly Emergency Department / Emergency Room personnel, and ED and hospital administrators, about ED violence to emphasize that this kind of violence poses a serious and real threat to personnel and facilities. Allen provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment. Violence in the Emergency Department delivers superior, readable, concise, and useable content in digestible chunks that is supported throughout using exhibits, photos, charts and graphs. Personal case scenar