Nurse chased by psych patient armed with 30cm glass shard

Monash Medical Centre. Photo: Wayne Hawkins A psychiatric ward patient smashed a window, took a 30-centimentre shard of glass and chased a nurse in a terrifying attack at Monash Medical Centre last month. The incident prompted the Health and Community Services Union to set up a telephone hotline so that mental health workers could log threats and assaults by patients. There's been an increase in extreme behaviour, says the union's state...