A scissor-wielding teenage girl pulled a blade on a nurse before attacking a security officer who tried to save the medical worker.
Paige Milligan was locked up a young offender's institute today after she flashed a pair of scissors at Analiza Pera at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in Dorset.
Hospital security officer John Dalglish rushed to the nurse's aid and grabbed the scissors from the 18-year-old who then assaulted him.
Police were called to the hospital where they arrested the girl of St Paul's Lane, Bournemouth.
Milligan admitted assaulting two emergency workers and having a blade that was sharply pointed in a public place when she appeared at Poole Magistrates' Court.
She was sentenced to be detained in a young offender institute for eight weeks and ordered to pay the victims £50 compensation each.
Karen Allman, director of Human Resources at Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals, said: "Our staff need to be able to do their jobs without the risk of attack.
"We take very seriously any reports and will investigate thoroughly. Where appropriate we will work with the police to prosecute.
"Attacks not only affect our staff, they also take valuable resources away from front line care for our other patients."
Earlier this year, the Crown Prosecution Service said it had prosecuted more than 50 assaults a day in the first year of legislation making attacks on emergency workers a specific offence.
Between November 2018 and 2019, almost 20,000 offences were charged under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act, three-quarters of which were assaults by beating.
Based on the first cases to go through the courts, figures showed a conviction rate of 90 per cent.
