An emergency room nurse was attacked by a patient at UF Health The Villages Hospital.
David Daniel Johnson, 63, of Oxford, was arrested Wednesday night at the hospital after allegedly striking the nurse. Johnson, who stands 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 225 pounds, was in an ER room at about 8:25 p.m. when the nurse noticed he had unhooked himself from the medical monitoring system and was sitting in a chair in the corner, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
The nurse, who was wearing blue hospital scrubs and her identification badge, told Johnson to get back into bed. At the time, Johnson was speaking to a hospital registration employee and provided that staffer with a false name. He then intentionally struck the nurse on her left thigh with his left hand…