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Emma COLEMAN, Appellant, v. MERCY HOSPITAL, INC., Appellee.
    No. 79-254.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 24, 1979.
    Rosenkrantz & O’Connor and Stuart H. Abramson, Miami Beach, for appellant.
    Peters, Pickle, Flynn, Niemoeller, Stieglitz & Hart, Jeanne Heyward, Miami, for appellee.
    Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HUB-BART, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The question presented on this appeal is whether defendant Mercy Hospital, Inc., on a motion for summary final judgment, carried its burden of showing conclusively that a genuine issue of material fact did not exist. See Holl v. Talcott, 191 So.2d 40 (Fla.1966).

The plaintiff, Emma Coleman, a nurse assigned to a senile patient, maintains on this appeal that an issue existed concerning the hospital’s duty to warn her that the patient might be violent. The uncontro-verted facts demonstrated that the hospital had no knowledge of a propensity for violence and that the prior history of the patient was not such as to put the hospital on notice that such a condition might exist. Cf. Nance v. James Archer Smith Hospital, Inc., 329 So.2d 377 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976); and see Stake v. Woman’s Division of Christian Service, 73 N.M. 303, 387 P.2d 871 (1963).

Affirmed.