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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good luck with putting the dogs on a leash.
cops (some of them, especially) have a habit of retaliating in a number of ways, none of them pleasant.
How embarrassing that it’s come to this; “Keep your policemen away from our nurses!”
It will be a while before a more workable trust is reestablished, if ever.
Yep. Dictators usually make life unpleasant when you fight back.
Ping
That policy will change the first time a patient in the treatment area assaults a nurse.
I predict less than one year.
Roughly 4 months ago I had a parolee OD. While I was waiting in the hallway to see if she would die or not the charge nurse approached me and asked if I would leave the area “because I made her staff nervous.”
I was speechless. I was literally just standing there quietly.
More people lose trust in the police everyday.
I think they’ve always been like this and stories were squashed before they ever got out. But with the advent of the internet and cell phones they can’t cover it up so easily anymore.
It will be a while before a more workable trust is reestablished, if ever.
I think there is a fundamental flaw in LEO training that they all believe being a total a**hole is the way to do their job.
With the backlash they're experiencing everywhere, you'd think they might get a clue eventually. ...maybe?
Showing respect for people, especially people you want to HELP YOU, as well as more respect for the law and peoples' rights, would be a nice starting point for recovering lost trust.
A very bad mistake by the officer and officers involved.
However, this, too, represents an over-reaction by the hospital’s Administration. More thinking and less emoting = better decision making by all.
This is not wise. better to insist the cops involved be punished, THEN, if that doesn’t happen you take this step.
Nurses kill more ppl than cops.
Why overreact when you can knee-jerk overreact?
I agree. I see this is an escalation. bad for both sides in the long run. Cops and hospital staff need to work together not be at war. Punish the wrongdoers, leave it at that.
Of course, if the cops do push back at the hospital,
the medical staff can let be known that cops will be last on
the treatment list if they need it.
I saw an episode of COPS once where a police officer pulled over a nurse for a traffic infraction of one kind or another.
The cop talked with her briefly, then let her go on her way. No ticket was issued.
The cop looked at the camera and said something like, “someday I might be injured in the line of duty, and I would not want the nurses who are treating me to be mad at me” (or similar words).
Thank your comrades in blue. Not all of them but enough of them. They make me nervous too. You never know when a loaded gun will go off. I wouldn’t want their job but all things considered I don’t want to be around them.
Maybe they have a history of unpleasant encounters with the police.
Nursing is probably the most respected profession in this country. When several of them in an ER feel that way, I believe them.
Instead of getting all butt-hurt, you might want to listen to them and find out why that is.
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