Posted on 09/05/2017 9:36:38 PM PDT by Ken H
The University of Utah Hospital, where a nurse was manhandled and arrested by police as she protected the legal rights of a patient, has imposed new restrictions on law enforcement, including barring officers from patient-care areas and from direct contact with nurses.
Margaret Pearce, chief nursing officer for the University of Utah hospital system, said she was “appalled” by the obfficer’s actions and has already implemented changes in hospital protocol to avoid any repetition.
She said police will no longer be permitted in patient-care areas, such as the burn unit where Wubbels was the charge nurse on the day of the incident and from emergency rooms.
In addition, officers will have to deal with “house supervisors” instead of nurses when they have a request.
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My wife is a nurse. You make a lot of assumptions about me.
I was there from 1am to 6am on a Saturday morning because I was worried about one of my people - not bc I had to be there. I got a very late night phone call, got out of bed, put on my uniform and went down there; no one in her family ever came. She hanged herself last month and I still get upset about it.
I had been standing in that hallway for 4 hours. Quietly and very politely. I have stood in that hallway on 6 occasions previously with no issues in similar circumstances for hours at a time waiting to see if one of my people will make it. Twice with the same charge nurse. She wasn’t speaking for her staff because the other nurses all are either married to or have a father in LE and I know them personally.
BLM has nothing on this thread’s cop hate. I mean, Tell me what you do for a living and I’ll tell you about all of the losers or crooks who also have that profession. Has no bearing on you personally.
Wish everyone the best.
My only concern about you on this thread is your disingenuous comment about nurses killing more people than cops. It's apples vs. road apples.
Further, what you call 'cop hate' on this thread is more (at least in my case) a desire for accountability for these cops who clearly went rogue.
I'm also concerned that the hospital seems to be overreacting.
You’re being policed. How’s it feel?
That is an outrageous assertion
Cops w agendas? You should write for BLM. You are very eloquent.
“Nurses kill more ppl than cops.”
How many nurses have dragged cops out of the station house?
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Like I said, my wife is a nurse; my nurse comment was just a joke. (Though it is provable and statistically true that bad nursing kills a staggering number of ppl each year. Does it make all nurses evil, crappy ppl? Nope.)
Lot of cop hate on Freerepublic.
The supervisor who okayed the arrest needs to be fired and stripped of professional liability.
The pig that arrested the nurse needs to tried, convicted and serve time in general population.
The police chief needs to resign for running a shitty department, but lacks the honor to do so.
The university cops present should all be fired for cowardice and dereliction of duty.
None of this will be done and the pigs will continue to create the fear and hatred they deserve.
How many nurses have dragged cops out of the station house?
What you view as 'hate', at least from me (and I suspect in many other cases), is a desire for accountability over some rogue cops.
Too bad I detect it every time. You FAIL.
Try addressing the actual point ... that We the People are losing (or have lost) any trust or respect we may have once had for professional police officers ... and that lack of trust is showing up in incidents like the one you related in post #8.
BTW, it's interesting that you mention BLM. The incident related in the original post, and many others like it, are the reason BLM has any credibility at all. Their lies are (at first glance) plausible.
Clean up your act. Police yourselves, cops, or you will be policed. And you won't like it.
“Does my wife count?”
Ruling on the field: No.
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Best,
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If you where there in no official capacity, why didn’t you take a seat and wait for news? The mere act of being in uniform (unnecessarily) and standing around showing off your copy regalia for 4 hours signals more about you than you probably realize.
Try it again without the typos: If you were there in no official capacity, why didn’t you take a seat and wait for news? The mere act of being in uniform (unnecessarily) and standing around showing off your cop regalia for 4 hours signals more about you than you probably realize.
The solution is to skip the hospital and provide care in the jail
Good example of the mentality that should be excluded from patient recovery areas.
Nice play for sympathy, but it was beside the point. The point of this thread is that a major hospital in a medium size US city that has lost all confidence in their police dept.
I stand with the nurses.
Hospitals are very paranoid when it comes to patient privacy and for good reason.
Federal bureaucrats use these laws (ie HIPPA) as a means to impose costly sanctions and hefty penalties for violations. Of course, if state and federal agencies are sloppy with YOUR medical information, it’s no problem because as we all know, the law is used against the peasants; not privileged government workers.
I don’t this this is an over-reaction at all. If the blood draw was carried out w/o a warrant, the hospital would face a medical privacy violation, and a civil rights lawsuit from the patient. An immediate review by police interacting with medical personnel with respect to obtaining medical evidence is absolutely necessary before trust can be re-established.
What needs to happen is the LEOs need to review the law and their policies with respect to obtaining medical evidence and meet with hospital legal counsel to come up with a rational policy that protects all parties.
Large hospitals have contract security people to handle that situation. The cops wouldn't be any good in that situation anyway; they wouldn't be there. ("When seconds count, the police are only minutes away")
grumpygresh: What needs to happen is the LEOs need to review the law and their policies with respect to obtaining medical evidence and meet with hospital legal counsel to come up with a rational policy that protects all parties.
Me: They had such a policy and apparently it worked. Until Officer Jeff Payne assaulted the nurse, that is.
What good will another policy do if police can’t be trusted to honor it?
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