Posted on 02/24/2023 11:45:38 PM PST by Morgana
A newly-hired nurse has been fired after a father filmed her slamming his newborn baby boy face-down into a bassinet at a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
The two-day-old named Nikko was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, Long Island, and was under the care of the NICU being treated with antibiotics when the horrific attack happened.
Nikko's father, Fidel Sinclair, had gone to check on his baby and started taking a video of him crying through the window of the nursery when he witnessed a nurse pick up his son and forcefully turn him around, slamming him face-first into his bassinet.
Sinclair told NBC New York witnessing the incident 'broke' him. Mom Consuelo Saravia confronted the nurse immediately, telling her: 'I don't want you to touch my child! You just slammed him.'
She claims the nurse responded by saying: 'Oh no, if you think I mishandled him or anything, I'm sorry.'
'I don’t know, it just broke me,' Sinclair told NBC New York. 'I didn’t know what to do.'
Saravia alerted other nurses and administrators to the shocking video. The nurse, whose name was not released, has been fired.
"I don’t know, it just broke me," said Sinclair. "I didn’t know what to do."
Saravia alerted other nurses and administrators to the shocking video. The nurse, whose name was not released, has been fired.
A spokesperson at Good Samaritan Hospital told DailyMail.com on Friday that the nurse was a 'recent hire' and she terminated immediately after the incident. They gave no further information on how long the NICU nurse had been at the hospital.
'Upon learning of this incident, swift and immediate action was taken, including conducting an investigation and consequently terminating the individual involved,' the hospital official said.
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Notice 2 different last names, and they didn’t mention the nurse’s name......hmmmmmmm.
No doubt a union bitch
Sad thing is since shes not criminally charged, another hospital will pick her up right away.
This happens all the time. Nurses and docs or orderlies get fired, they don’t face charges, and they get picked up by another hospital somewhere else. I have friends who were nurses and who dated nurses. They heard and experienced it firsthand. Its revolving door time.
Let me guess. . . Has the Superior Race™ struck again? Or is this a rare exception?
When my kids were born, I never let them out of my sight the entire time we were in the hospital. Never trust another human with your baby.
Friends in Massachusetts tell me that Jamaican nurses and aides are horrorshows.
And they are everywhere in Massachusetts.
My knowledge is central American Healthcare. It is brutal.
Father recorded the event but no video posted. Wonder why? Actually, I don’t.
It’s there, I watched it.
Parents seem unmarried
Nurses are born not made
Not everyone is cut out for it
NICU is tough
Thanks. I’ll have to check using my PC. My phone doesn’t seem to show anything like a vid or link to one.
Black lesbian nurse? She’ll be reinstated once the heat dies down.
Younger sister worked that in a big NYC hospital 50+ years ago. Back then they only called it "pediatrics". Coming home and going straight to her room without talking to anyone was not uncommon. Took a couple of years but she finally left that job after she married and was preparing to have her first child. After hearing some of her war stories, I was amazed she stayed as long as she did.
Video is embedded into the article. It is disturbing to watch.
What kind of film did he use? A photo buff wants to know.
I commend him on his restraint.
When my third child was born, the nurse asked him if I wanted him in my room. I replied that I had two other small children at home and this was the last decent sleep I would get for six months.
Every two to three hours, I would wake up sensing my son needed me. Sure enough, by the time I sat down next to him he would be rousing, needing his diaper changed and milk.
One evening during his feeding, I noticed a baby beside me was in distress. He had thrown up and was choking. I pointed it out to the nurse and she ignored me.
“He’s choking on his vomit!” I stated in my most ferocious “mom” voice and stood up, ready to put my son down and pick that one up to start emergency response procedures.
That got her attention.
I moved my son to my room and that little one was transferred to the NICU.
You are correct. Keep your baby with you.
That nurse is lucky this event was witnessed by an inexperienced father. He was probably in shock and disbelief.
If the mother or an experienced father had seen it, that nurse would have been in the ICU.
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