Governor sides with nurse in trouble for Schiavo remarks

St. Petersburg Times ^ | Published July 14, 2006 | LORRI HELFAND

[musicman]

Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday sided with a nurse who could lose her license because she discussed Terri Schiavo's medical condition on national TV.

"The governor feels the actions taken against Carla Sauer-Iyer are not justified and hopes that the complaint will be reconsidered and dismissed," Bush spokesman Russell Schweiss wrote in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times. "She did not disclose any information which was not already public."

On Thursday, the Department of Health requested the Board of Nursing to dismiss the agency's complaint that Sauer-Iyer, 42, improperly disclosed patient information on CNN last year.

Sauer-Iyer rejected a proposed settlement that would have forced her to give up her nursing license, pay up to $1,683 in administrative costs and not to apply for a license in the future.

Sauer-Iyer, a registered nurse, rejected a proposed settlement and requested an administrative hearing. No date has been set for the hearing.

[musicman]

I hope this isn't already posted, I did a search, and found nothing about it yet.

According to a similar article in the Daytona Beach News Journal Online website, THAT article says the case IS NOW dismissed.

[John Jorsett]

I'm not a lawyer, but I thought patient privacy ended upon death.

[Hildy]

I believe she did her interviews before Terri passed.

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[rhombus]

The case against Sauer-Iyer began on March 28, 2005, when the Health Department received a complaint from a Massachusetts registered nurse who said Sauer-Iyer made "unsubstantiated comments" on CNN "that with 'just a little bit of therapy' Mrs. Schiavo could be rehabilitated."

A Massachusetts registered nurse??? Who is this nurse who's in a snit?

[BritExPatInFla]

I think it has to do with her prancing all over all of the MSM news shows before terri died touting her side of the story and what she said she observed of Terri, Michael and the parents in the hosp. room while Terri was in a coma.

[Shimmer128]

Prancing?!! Really?!

Can I guess that she offended you in some personal way? Or that you think Terri's husband/murderer was right in what he did?

[rwa265]

Here is an article from The Daytona Beach News Journal

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_SCHIAVO_NURSE_FLOL-?SITE=FLDAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

State: Dismiss complaint against Terri Schiavo's former nurse

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The state health department has asked the Board of Nursing to dismiss a complaint against a nurse who once cared for Terri Schiavo and discussed the brain-damaged woman's medical condition on national TV.

Carla Sauer-Iyer cared for Schiavo at a Largo nursing home in 1995 and '96. She claimed on CNN last year that Schiavo ate pudding and milkshakes, laughed and uttered such words as "mommy," "help me" and "pain."

In doing so, she improperly disclosed confidential patient information, violating state code and federal law, the Florida Health Department said in a complaint filed in May that asked the nursing board to revoke Sauer-Iyer's nursing license.

The health department requested the state's nursing board dismiss that complaint Thursday.

Sauer-Iyer, 42, now a registered nurse working in Lakeland, only repeated on CNN information already available publicly in an affidavit requested by Gov. Jeb Bush's defense team in 2003, her attorney said in correspondence with the health department dated June 6.

The state nursing board's after-hours answering service would not accept messages.

Bush sided with the nurse Thursday.

"The governor feels the actions taken against Sauer-Iyer are not justified and hopes that the complaint will be reconsidered and dismissed. She did not disclose any information which was not already public," Bush spokesman Russell Schweiss wrote in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times.

Sauer-Iyer rejected a proposed settlement that would have required her to give up her nursing license, pay up to $1,683 in administrative costs and not to apply for another license. She also requested an administrative hearing, which has not been scheduled.

Schiavo was at the center of a bitter 15-year legal fight between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and her family over whether she should be kept alive with a feeding tube after a devastating brain injury left her in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state.

The courts ultimately sided with Schiavo's husband, and Schiavo died of dehydration at a Florida hospice on March 31, 2005, 13 days after the tube was removed.

[yellowdoghunter]

According to a similar article in the Daytona Beach News Journal Online website, THAT article says the case IS NOW dismissed.

That is what I am hearing on other websites also. There is no need for that nurse to lose her license.

Anyway, thanks for posting, as it is news, just not the "right" kind of news....:) now back to reading week old stories....

[Clara Lou]

Or that you think Terri's husband/murderer was right in what he did?
Stay on topic: the nurse's actions, not Terri's husband's actions.

[yellowdoghunter]

Did you hear Michael is out campaigning for Democrats? I have a feeling Michael might persuade a few Freepers to vote Democrat.

[robertpaulsen]

"Did you hear Michael is out campaigning for Democrats?"

Instead of for ... who? The Republicans who supported him?

Not to worry. The Schindlers are supporting the Republicans. Why, the Schindlers went so far as to sell the list of their financial supporters to a conservative direct-mailing firm.

While some may call that greedy, even ghoulish, I call that patriotic! Right?!

[robertpaulsen]

"Sauer-Iyer rejected a proposed settlement that would have forced her to give up her nursing license, pay up to $1,683 in administrative costs and not to apply for a license in the future."

Geez. That's the settlement? What more can happen to her if she refuses this "generous" offer?

[sportutegrl]

I think I heard last night on Fox that he was considering running for office himself.

[yellowdoghunter]

Can we expect to see you out on the campaign trail for the Democrats? Please let us know how it is going.

I would rather be standing up for life than for death.

[yellowdoghunter]

I think I heard last night on Fox that he was considering running for office himself.

Oh great, that is all we need. But I am sure many people would be willing to donate to his campaign, they would make an exception for "that" Democrat.

[robertpaulsen]

"I would rather be standing up for life than for death."

You do what you want -- just stay away from me and my family.

I happen to believe in the legal power of a Living Will, and I don't want you and the other fanatics attempting to overturn that and forcing my family to go through the emotional and financial burden of artificially maintaining my brain damaged body for as long as science allows.

[yellowdoghunter]

Nice way of twisting it around to act like Terri had a living will. That is not what this is about and you know it, however, Democrats and the like are known for that tactic, so I am not surprised.

Those are the same words we will probably hear coming out of Michael's mouth and those he campaigns for. You are in good company, well....let's just say, you have the Democrats rooting for ya!

[BaBaStooey]

Yes, but according to what Michael put on Terri's grave marker, she was already dead.

[ghostrider]

Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday sided with a nurse who could lose her license because she discussed Terri Schiavo's medical condition on national TV.

I suppose in the interest of equal treatment, the Customs Agent who publically outed Rush's Viagra will also be fired. Opps! I forgot - laws and rules aren't enforced when a liberal is involved.