The hospital’s director of public safety was in on the whole exercise and stated he wanted the effort to be as realistic as possible and after the fact stated that staff should have been notified ahead of time.
This is crazy as the unit where this happened has the sickest patients too. One thing that comes to mind here is that if this had happened in Arizona, with their 
new gun law that doesn’t require any registration, you might have some gun packing nurses to confront, think about that one. That is not to say that nurses need to pack a pistol by any means, but it could happen, and for that matter what would stop a patient from having their gun at their bed side too. This is a bad scenario any way you look at it.
The cop even went as far as herding all the nurses into a room before he let on what he was doing. We have enough crazy people out there and granted a high alert awareness is a good thing, but preparedness training should be carried out a little differently. BD
At the St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada this past Monday, a very unusual and terrifying scene took place that left nearly all its participants in shock -- both out of fear and genuine bewilderment as to how safety planners could be so stupid.
That's because last Monday, an off-duty police officer stormed into the hospital's Sienna campus, where the most sick patients are cared for, and pointed a gun at staff. He then ordered as many as 10 nurses down a hallway and into a room, according to a local report.
It all turned out to be a "safety" drill gone horribly wrong. But in Monday’s incident, which occurred in a unit that houses the hospital’s sickest patients, nurses, patients and their families did not know it was a drill, said Renee Ruiz, organizer of the California Nurses Association, which represents staff at the hospital."
Off-duty cop pretended to be terrorist gunman in hospital’s unannounced ’safety’ drill | Raw Story
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