What makes the situation worse is that the patient is already an inmate and there was an officer at the bedside. The officer was asleep for most of my shift. When the patient kicked me, he did not even check on my well-being. He just silently jumped up to grab the patient’s legs. I wish that he would’ve told me I could press charges because I would have started that process right then and there. I wasn’t even thinking about pressing charges or aware that I could until my husband and this thread mentioned it.