“have some experience in jail wards in hospitals. In my experience a nurse wouldn’t follow an order from a deputy or CO if she thought it was illegal. She would say talk to the charge nurse or she would get the charge nurse.”
Sounds right. The nurse does not have the authority to make decisions or interpret the law for that matter. In your scenario the Charge Nurse may then need to go above as well.
“I was married to an RN for 22 years and i have been in the hospital 12 or more times since 2002. Nurses do not follow cops orders blindly unless there is gunfire on the floor.”
This is a real comment.
It’s not exactly relevant, in that the cop was not asking her to draw the blood.
But your comments are greatly appreciated.
The nurse has no authority one way or the other, as you point out above.
This nurse did try to exercise he own authority, which is fine, but then she should not scream and yell and revisit arrest anymore than anyone if arrested.
Nor would the nurse have been in trouble if she had not opposed the officer, as some suggested.
The answer is the charge nurse on scene or should have been called.
Nor would the nurse have been in trouble if she had not opposed the officer, as some suggested.
The cop was illegally interfering with the nurses’ job. He wouldn’t have lost his job as a police phlebotomist had he not done so.