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Amarillo nurse calls 'safe harbor' at NWTH
Posted: 03.12.2012 at 5:52 PM Updated: 03.13.2012 at 6:45 AM
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When a nurse feels she has been asked to perform an assignment she believes is unsafe for a patient, she can invoke something called "safe harbor". Saturday afternoon, a nurse decided to do that at Northwest Texas Hospital.

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