Here is my CPR training.
regardless of whether the woman had a DNR or not, if the nurse did not know one way or the other she did the right thing for herself by not performing CPR. Now I will say it was not necessarily the "right" thing to do, but when people slap retarded lawsuits on people doing good things, this culture of protecting your own ass develops.
If the nurse did not know for certain, the options were, CPR the woman and possibly get hit with a giant lawsuit, or do nothing and nothing happen. It's a result of our effed up laws but that's how it is.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
that's some massive BS
Welcome to the US where if that Nurse had performed CPR and had done ANYTHING wrong or against the current guidelines (which change almost yearly) she could have been sued for everything she had and the nursing facility as well.
Some of you will say you have done it anyways. I would like to think i would as well. But add in a few more life experiences: what if you had been practicing for years and have seen numerous friends and colleagues sued for frivolous reasons and lose everything. or you yourself had previously bent the rules and only been punished by the system and even the very people you were trying to help.
Some states have good Samaritan laws but they are not comprehensive.
Yes, in a lot of peoples opinion, it was a heartless act. But I blame the system as much as the nurse or the facility. You see this too often. I remember a recent story about firefighters that refused to enter a lake to save a car accident victim because they did not have the proper qualifications. They didn't want to get sued.
Plain and simple the nurse had no duty to act in her position and so did not. Maybe if our system better encouraged good Samaritan's and stopped lawsuits ending in large cash rewards, we would have this happen less often.
Don't assume it was a medically staffed facility. It may be a assisted living community or any such thing like that. The term nurse in retirement and assisted living care facility is used to describe a variety of trained or untrained caregivers. Many who are just personal care aids and probably don't know how to perform CPR. Nowadays there are actually very few educated real nurses, LPN or RN in retirement settings. It's mostly aids who help with hygiene and feeding. I'm not surprised by this at all. Its customary to call 911 in a lot of retirement centers nowadays.
time to sue the living shit out of that nursing home and hope they get driven into bankruptcy.
Not her the company with those rules in place. since those rules caused a criminal negligence to occur, The acts of in this case the standing orders of do nothing caused the person to die. And that is criminal negligence.
And on top of that a person that thinks those standing orders goes above the medical oath you have sworn to upheld you need to lose your license for practicing medicine even in the form of a nurse.
Plain and simple IDIOT actions like this needs to COST for those that do them and stand up for them and only way to do that is by suing the living hell out of them
There really isn't an issue here, honestly. The nurse followed procedure. The family of the deceased agree'd with what was, and wasn't, done and the results. In fact odds are VERY good they were made aware of the policy when they signed the (many, many) forms involved with the home.
But boring stories where everyone accepts the results don't get ratings. Hyping it up by making an issue and playing on emotional sentiments, however, get's the sort of interest that create threads like this.
If you are put on a DNR, either you or the person legally responsible for you signs it. If you don't you get what happened to the doctors of that Down's Syndrome patient, ie a huge lawsuit. If you sign a DNR without knowing what it means, you're an idiot.
The hippocratic oath is not legally binding. It never has been.
Yes, actually it is costing people. It's costing you. Have fun paying for your doctor's malpractice assurance because greedy pricks want to sue someone for not saving their life properly. Really, it's blind ignorance of medicine like this that is ultimately destroying the US medical system from the ground up; I bet you don't even know what conditions CPR actually has a chance in helping. I'll give you a hint: if someone's pulmonary circulation has outright failed, your CPR isn't going to do anything.