Working in an emergency is not only busy but also very dangerous. Many people come in to be treated for what ever their ailment of the day but we don't know their true history. One of the emergency rooms I work at ,has started a workplace violence task force meeting every month. From that task force many things have happened all for the better. The one I would like to write about is the security team. The task force put a security guard in the ED on fri,sat and Sunday from 4pm-12 midnight. It was great, our security guards have not been professionally trained but they will protect the staff and the patients and they did a great job with it. Every monday a letter went to their boss telling him how great they were. Security was able to intervene so many times truely keeping the staff and patients safe. Well out of the blue they no longer are assigned to the ED they can walk thru the ED but there isn't the man power for him to stay. The problem is no one was aware of it! Makes you wonder what really goes on in management.