Speaking as a nurse, I don’t do anything intrusive to a patient without a doctors written order except in an emergency situation relating to immediate life threatening events. ie cpr, defib, etc...
Even giving narcan or insulin requires a doctors order. And I wouldn’t draw blood without a written order from a doctor.
If the detective had gotten a Doctor to agree and issue the order - no problem. Otherwise it’s my job to stabilize a patient until the doctor diagnoses and issues care orders. Based on the doctors diagnoses and orders, I then work out my nursing care plan. If the patient is conscious I must obtain consent from the patient to carry out the doctors orders.They can refuse any procedure, and I note the patient refuses AMA, against medical advice. If the patient cannot respond to care requests, I then note it in the patients chart as unresponsive or not understanding and can then do the procedure/order under the doctors direction. You own your body. Unless your are declared incompetent ( in Florida we call it The Baker Act) or there is a court order, you control what happens to it. Soapbox relinquished.
BTTT
In the USA, women are allowed to OWN the body of another person; that they just happen to be carrying in their uterus.
They can KILL them without fear of being prosecuted by the Government.
What is amazing to me is that if the trucker was in ICU, he has already had blood draws and tox has already been run so that the treating docs know what they are dealing with.
PD’s actions were for nothing.
So did the nurse take the wrong path when she dealt with LE herself instead of directing them to the Dr in charge?
Then they make have thought twice before treating a Dr with the same hostility.