Posted on 09/02/2017 5:11:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Another cop was placed on administrative leave with pay in the handcuffing of a Utah hospital nurse who refused to take blood from an unconscious patient.
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It’s on video! Fire the jackboot thug!
They should fire the fat lollypop campus cops who stood around and did nothing.
From the video it seems half the police dept. needs an overhaul.
I read another version, that the cop is a phlebotomist who does blood draws on DUI suspects, that he HIMSELF wanted to do the blood draw, and the nurse wouldn’t allow him access to the patient.
Further that the patient was not only unconscious, but burned, and therefore at very high risk of infection, and obviously the police officer is not trained in infection control the way a medical professional is, and should be no where near that patient.
IMO, the doctor in charge should have stepped up as well, administration should have been called, and the hospital attorney. The nurse shouldn’t have to face down,by herself, a police officer violating not only hospital policy but the law, and endangering a patient.
The lawsuits are going to fly on this one. The PD will pay just to get rid of the adverse publicity and the two police officers will either be fired on placed out of the public eye for a long time I suspect.
Cops cannot draw blood in a hospital unless authorized by the hospital. They don’t have medical privileges there. Just because you are certified at something doesn’t mean you get to do it anywhere you’d like. Cops have limits, regardless of what their fragile and primal egos think.
“...dministration should have been called...”
The nurse had her supervisor/administrator on speakerphone in conversation with the detective when the detective went nutso and arrested the nurse. I’ve also read the nurse was the Charge Nurse.
I don’t know what that has to do with the article. But it sure strikes me as a good means of justice.
Nah, they need to fire many more people.
I hope they play that vid 1,000 times.
I wish the nurse could sue the cops personally instead of the PD where the citizens are the ones paying. Take their pensions and a portion of future earnings. That will hit bad cops where it hurts.
From what I’ve read this dude was not even the person they were chasing in the first place. He was just hit by accident. Can’t for the life of me figure why they wanted his blood so badly.
This I will say. This nurse worked the burn unit. Sure hope none of these cops end up in her unit for a work or other related injury. Sure hope ever nurse and doctor in this unit have long memories of this.
That's what I had read as well. I have done tons of these draws for police in hospitals and the paperwork comes first.
Doesn’t matter if he was an MD. The patient has to consent to treatment. The entire matter is ludicris. Police know when they can and when they can’t get blood. all they needed was an arrest warrant. Probably lacking detail(s).
It doesn’t matter who the patient is. Police have no right to order medical personnel without a Court Order. This Nurse should make $millions. The cop should be fired and any Supervising Officer that was present.
Administration was called and told the officer that he was wrong.
That seemed to have been what sent him off.
I read the blood they wanted was from a tucker who got hit by someone the cops were chasing. Wtf?
She can sue him personally. That was not simple negligence, but a criminal assault and battery and kidnapping under color of authority.
She needs to press charges and then sue him for everything he is worth.
The City will be sued too and they will pay compensatory damages, but the officer could get hit with punitive damages.
It seems like if the cop had any guts at all he would have just walked in and drawn the blood. Nobody would have physically stopped him. Instead he attacked an innocent female. 100% Gutless.
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