I almost hit a patient after she hit my glasses off my face

Hey so I just needed ro get this off my chest. I don't know if I'm shook up about it or still pissed but I just needed someone not in my inner circle to complain or tell the story too.

So I'm a patient observer (sitter), and I'm sure all you nurses know what that is but if yo6 don't it's basically where I watch people who are a danger to themselves or others. Like people who are fall risks or suicidal patients. In this particular incident, I was watching a woman who was dealing with mania and hallucinations.

When she was first brought to the ER, she was aggressive. Fighting cops, security, nurses, and doctors. I wasn't there when it all went down as this was told to me by the last sitter. So by the time I got there she had already been sedated and asleep.

Around 2am is when she woke up. Of course I was attending. Doing everything I needed to do. Giving her warm blankets, food, water, walking her to the bathroom down the hall, engaging in conversation with her doing everything I could to make her stay somewhat nicer. To try and help her and answer questions to help with her delusions.

But s8nce I'm not a nurse, I didn't have all the answers. I told her that I wasn't one and that I didn't have the answers she wanted and that even nurses aren't told everything. She takes about her kids, asking about them, in which we tell her we don't know. Asking about her meds, talking credit card theft???

The nonstop questions and repeating everything to her countless times, she finally asks to go to the bathroom once more. And I help her there. And when she does, I hear her swearing and getting agitated. I know by experience that this isn't good. That something is going to happen. And sure enough it does only 30 minutes later.

Mobile crisis goes to see her and during that, she looks out of the room and sees me and looks at me with this disgusted look. She said something I didn't quite catch. I was watching her through the cameras and just doing mindless doodles while I wait for my shift to end in 2 hours.

Around the 5am mark is when shit hits the fan. After mobile crisis leaves the room, the woman starts yelling at me. Calling me a slut, bitch, whore, and everything under the sun. I was shocked cause I've been nothing but nice to her and I tell her so and ask why she's calling me names.

She then proceeds to leave her room, going into the staffing area and tugging on machine and equipment. I gently tell her we have to go back into her room in which she pushes past me and goes towards a THANKFULLY empty room. I tell the nurses to call security before he breaks a handsanitizer and slams the wall with her fists.

After that I get more assertive and tell her that now we need to go back to her room, blocking her from entering that room. She turns around and looks at the computers before KNOCKING DOWN a phone, sending it tumbling to the ground.

After this happened, and remembering a time where a man had destroyed all the computers on a desk and not want8ng a redo, I grab the woman by her arms, standing behind her and begin to move her to her room.

Finally two nurses come to my aid and block her from going anywhere else and in which I let her go. I didn't grip her hard at all. Just enough to escort her to her room and not cause bruises. I didn't want to hurt her.

After being kinda cornered by me and the other nurses, she turns around and slaps my glasses off my face. I only felt her fingertips touch the corner of my eye so not a full on slap but it was enough to send me reeling for a moment.

I had been working at the hospital for a year and a half by this point and no one has put their hands on me like that. I stood there for a moment, not knowing how to process it as she started yelling at me.

She yelled that she would hit me again and did try to slap me. And in turn which I'm not very proud of, I step forward. But I manage to stop myself. I didn't raise any fists or anything but I knew that If I hadn't stopped myself, I would have hit her back but I managed to compose myself.

The nurses tell me to leave and which I do, grabbing my glasses off the floor with her jeering and yelling at me the entire time. Continuing to say she'll hit me, that she'd blind me and calling me names once more.

FINALLY security shows up and which nurses and security try to get this girl back in her room but it doesn't work. So they unfortunately have to sedate her like they had done earlier. But I can tell you with confidence that it didn't do shit until 7am. The exact time I got off work.

She went into seclusion after that and in turn I had to continue watching her. She was slamming on the doors and everything, screaming, yelling, the works.

The police come and I have to give a statement. They ask me if I want to press charges and while I do want her to know she can't slap people, I do know she's in a manic state. Hallucinating. What if she's not always aggressive? What if this was just a cause of the mania? Not to mention the legal process sounded like hell. So, I said no.

I had to sit outside the door and watch her for another 1hr and 30mins before I got to go home. And now it's been a full 24hrs since it happened and I can't help but feel iffy.

I'm worried. I really didn't mean to take a step forward when she hit me, it was just a natural reaction. I managed to stop myself but I'm worried that I'll get in trouble for it or for grabbing her before to steer her away from breaking any more equipment.

Could I get in trouble for this? I just need to know to ease my mind or know what to expect...