Honestly, nurses have enough to do medically and surgically with their patients without thinking about every legal aspect of whether or not a baby can leave the hospital without his mother, or judge each case individually. They can't possibly know every aspect of their patient’s lives (posing fraudulently as a member of the family, custody issues, pending divorces, spousal abuse, etc.). That is why hospitals have these very sensible safety protocols for nurses to follow.
As trivial as this little walk outside was it could have managed successfully with a polite, “May I speak to the nursing supervisor”, or “May I have the number of the public relations department.”
First you are presuming that he didn’t request to speak to a supervisor or that the nurses in the incident even gave him a chance to do so. There was in this case, no question that he was the father of the baby or that he was trying to abduct the baby from his wife. It would seem rather obvious that he was cleared and to be in observed in the ward. His wife stands behind him and in saying that the nurses were the aggressors and he was doing nothing wrong. What you are suggesting in that nurses can’t be bothered with “thinking” is nothing different than other ridiculous “zero tolerance” policies such as those where a teacher has a child arrested and a parent put in jail because a kid in kindergarten draws a picture of a gun. Yea, I know; rules are rules; they are after all for our own good and for the children.
Sensible and emotionally mature people understand these issues and don't hassle the nurses about trivialities such as taking a baby for a stroll outside.
And that could also be reasoned to the other side of the argument to say that sensible and emotionally mature people understand that you don’t hassle a dad about trivialities such as taking his baby for a harmless stroll outside
Kicking a nurse in the pelvis while carrying a newborn? Unbelievable! This is not rational behavior. For what? A walk outside?
So what about lunging at a dad with his newborn son in his arms? The nurse claims the baby’s head was bouncing around but the video doesn’t exactly support that claim from what I saw. I could understand if this was a first time dad but he and his wife have three other children so I tend to think he knew how to hold a baby. I can’t say that while holding a new born that anyone coming at me in an aggressive manner wouldn’t be considered a threat that I would respond to in kind.
Again, I’m not defending his actions as I don’t know all the facts. But neither am automatically I willing to accept the nurses side of the story.
Nurses are generally great, from my experience, but not always. I had a roommate once who had that stomach staple surgery and the nurses would not respond to her. She could not move so I started helping her with the water she needed held for her to drink.
Then the pain got unbearable and they still would not respond to her so I went on a rampage. Told them I was calling the local news if they did not get there in three minutes and then I started counting down so everyone could hear. A doctor responded in that situation - it was clear who was in charge and it was not the nurses. He was furious and they were jumping to it.
Nurses are not always right in what they do and in their motivations. I would not assume they are right in this instance. Seems they were overreacting against the father -the main authority over the kid - taking his child for a walk. They have made asses out of everyone including themselves. That is not how professionals act.