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The only thing I can think of right now and I may be wrong.
The facility is protecting themselves against a lawsuit.
But I believe no jury will find against someone trying to administer a life saving procedure.
I think it's called the good Samaritan law.
But I'm sure there are a few John Edwards or Gloria Alred types that would sue and force the facility and the employee to spend thousands of dollars in attorney fees.
I would have risked losing my job just to give that gal another day of life.
I just want to celebrate...
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I would have risked losing my job just to give that gal another day of life.
I just want to celebrate...
Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate 1971 + Lyrics. - YouTube
She was 86. CPR could have finished her. If it was me, id rather have the hot shot in to the after life.
The 911 dispatcher was going to give instructions. She even asked if someone on the street could be brought in since company policy forbid employees from giving CPR. This has every indication of forcing a change in the law forbidding these kinds of contracts. The facility is specifically directed to the elderly. The company is on notice that residents are subject to health event. Unlike an apartment building where management is responsible only for property maintenance an assisted living facility is more like a group home.
Okay - question. This elderly lady would have been admitted to this hospice place or whatever by her daughter, who would have signed a few papers, like a contract perhaps.
Was there anything in the papers that stated that if the woman had an accident, or fell ill, they would not perform CPR?
It would seem silly and cruel not to mention this policy to a relative who believed their loved one would be cared for...
Just assuming that these places actually do have these kinds of forms to fill out.
Noomi, she was living in an Independent Living...like an apartment building for older people.
It is not a medical facility.
Do you have to fill out forms before you can stay there? If so, something must have been in those forms about this - if there wasn't, the daughter should sue their pants off.
Come on people. Nursing homes do not try to resusitate eighty year old patients or they would be in the CPR business.
The 911 operator commanded her to do CPR or find someone that could. To those who say George Zimmerman should have followed the command of 911, is this woman guilty of a crime too?
There is a difference from trying to prevent a confrontation/assault/death by violence and telling someone to attempt to save someone who is dying.
There is not a difference!
You are not legally obligated to do as a 911 operator says.
Police are not even legally obligated to protect you. You can call 911 & they or the police could go take a nap while you are raped & you can't sue them.
Did anyone in this thread forget to read the following?
The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse, saying she did indeed follow policy.
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Toomer said in a written statement. "That is the protocol we followed."
Woman in independent living facility dies after nurse refuses to do CPR; director says protocol followed | cleveland.com
Neither have I. But having observed the gradual decline of American society over the past half-century I'm not at all surprised by such items of evidence of what Dr. Erich Fromm identified as rising alienation in his 1950s classic, Man For Himself.I've never heard of a nursing home having that type of policy. Really bizarre.
There is no question what the policy was or that the nurse correctly followed the policy. The policy is being reviewed and will no doubt be changed. Although the nurse did have an opportunity to find someone not covered by the policy and let them give the woman CPR. I can see why the police are opening a criminal investigation.
We'll find out because the police have instituted a criminal investigation into the nurses conduct.
California nurse refuses to give CPR to dying woman | World news | guardian.co.uk
It's all over the local news this morning. This nurse is going to find herself behind bars before this is over.