Hospital Robbery Drill Traumatizes Nurse

In April 2012, a New York woman named Alison Mastandrea was working as an emergency room nurse at Grover M. Hermann Catskill Regional Medical Center when the hospital ran an unannounced narcotics robbery drill. A hospital employee entered the ER, demanded narcotics, and claimed to have a gun; Mastandrea believed the threat was real, suffered an emotional breakdown, and later received a PTSD diagnosis. She sued and a jury awarded her $490,000 in 2016 after she said the trauma had left her unable to continue nursing and dependent on disability assistance.

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