That patient had do be a DNR..and then have Comfort Care orders made.
I've seen this hundreds of times...
I'm a DNR...but that doesn't mean all care stops.
Comfort care measures are generally written after staff, family, physicians, etc..meet and discuss what the family and the patient want. Most of these patients are terminally ill.....and/or don't want to be hooked up to machines anymore.
Both my parents - now deceased - were DNR, so I’m familiar with what it is.
From the article, it sounds as though she purposely administers a fatal last dose of Ativan & morphine.
DNR does not justify this.
This was active euthanasia, also known as homicide. It should NOT be tolerated. This man was medicated to death like a dog being put down.
It is full frontal evil