It's not just kids or hospitals ...any facility housing or caring for mental patients risks getting injured by the patients.
My sister was refused sedatives while a dastardly brain disease ate away any ability whatsoever to control her raging violent behavior.... But laws now on sedating patients would not permit them to sedate her even though she had hit other patients, grabbed and injured staff, and also visiting family members. She had a most miserable existence....and so did those caring for her.
It was not until she stopped eating and was in the death thros they finally sedated her. Trust me we called commissioners, politicians, owners of the facility to no avail. It was well beyond heartbreaking.
I'm not sure how the protocols for sedation work but I know liberals were behind things like that, the same as the misguided idiots closed down mental institutions in the belief that they were ‘’barbaric and it was thought just releasing mentally ill people into the ‘’community’’ was much more ‘’humane'' I know in the hospital I work a violent or aggressive patient will be ordered by a doctor or if the nursing staff director and or the chief of the security detail will order a violent patient to be ''physically restrained''( leather straps, ''four point restraint'') or a doctor will order ''chemical restraint''( meds).