In addition, more people without health insurance who
             are using emergency rooms, and there are fewer emergency rooms available as
             many hospitals have closed or downsized across the nation ("Overcrowding,"
             2001). This overcrowding can lead to long waits for patients needing care,
             and even some patients being turned away because of lack of bed space or
             staff availability. The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) notes,
             "Emergency department overcrowding may result in situations whereby
             emergency nurses and other personnel are unable to deliver quality and
             timely emergency care" ("Overcrowding," 2001). Therefore, as emergency
             rooms become even more crowded, the quality of care could suffer, and many
             patients with less threatening problems might not be seen at all. Clearly,
             overcrowding is a pressing issue in our nation's emergency rooms, and one
             Violence and the emergency room just seem to go together, and this is
             a growing problem for emergency room personnel and other patients, too. In
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