Nurses speak out after hospital stabbing at SSM DePaul

Several nurses are speaking out after a stabbing at SSM Health DePaul Hospital in St. Louis.

A patient reportedly stabbed a nurse and a paramedic in the emergency department on Monday.

Current and former DePaul nurses who spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch claimed hospital administrator for years have ignored pleas to increase security at the hospital.

“This is something that we have been begging for help for, for years," said one registered nurse at DePaul, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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