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Topic	Cops arrest nurse because she refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient
Coffeebeanz 08/31/17 9:51:36 PM #51:	justaguy3492 posted... Coffeebeanz posted... Obviously if this is simply that she's refusing to give the lab results to the cop, the cops are blatantly in the wrong. But the title of the topic is "refused to draw blood", which raises the question of who asked her to do it, and why. If you're trolling, you're doing a phenomenal job because I am genuinely irked by the fact that you haven't taken the time to read the article posted OR google this and read one of the many other articles written about it. The cop himself, in a written prepared report, literally states that he wanted it because the guy was suspected of driving under the influence. He was also unconscious, in a motor vehicle accident, and in a hospital. There's no fucking way the hospital is going to let him go back with the cops after the "blood draw", which means by this point he's been admitted and a trauma physician has already ordered routine labs and imaging. The nurse cannot refuse to do those. And obviously the cops can't ask the nurse for the RESULTS of those labs, but you know what? Nurses can't give results of labs to ANYONE, even patients. And the physician has every right to tell the cops they cannot see any of the patient's PHI. It doesn't matter why the cops brought him - he's under the hospital's care now. If a nurse isn't following orders on an unstable patient, then that's a problem. The only way your scenario works without requiring any more context is if the cops managed to bring this unconscious, just-had-a-motor-vehicle-accident patient to a hospital and the hospital had no intention of evaluating him. Which is absolutely insane. --- Physician [Internal Medicine] <cite>Coffeebeanz posted [p:885811107] in Cops arres... [t:75728861]...</cite> <quote><cite>justaguy3492 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Coffeebeanz posted...</cite> <quote>Obviously if this is simply that she's refusing to give the lab results to the cop, the cops are blatantly in the wrong. But the title of the topic is "refused to draw blood", which raises the question of who asked her to do it, and why.</quote> If you're trolling, you're doing a phenomenal job because I am genuinely irked by the fact that you haven't taken the time to read the article posted OR google this and read one of the many other articles written about it. The cop himself, in a written prepared report, literally states that he wanted it because the guy was suspected of driving under the influence.</quote> He was also unconscious, in a motor vehicle accident, and in a hospital. There's no fucking way the hospital is going to let him go back with the cops after the "blood draw", which means by this point he's been admitted and a trauma physician has already ordered routine labs and imaging. The nurse cannot refuse to do those. And obviously the cops can't ask the nurse for the RESULTS of those labs, but you know what? Nurses can't give results of labs to ANYONE, even patients. And the physician has every right to tell the cops they cannot see any of the patient's PHI. It doesn't matter why the cops brought him - he's under the hospital's care now. If a nurse isn't following orders on an unstable patient, then that's a problem. The only way your scenario works without requiring any more context is if the cops managed to bring this unconscious, just-had-a-motor-vehicle-accident patient to a hospital and the hospital had no intention of evaluating him. Which is absolutely insane. --- Physician [Internal Medicine]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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