She could be sued and lose her credentialing if she complied. A police officer does not have the right to demand a nurse draw blood on an unconscious patient, or anyone else, for that matter. He is not her employer. If the police want a suspected impaired driver to be tested for drugs or alcohol, they have people on staff who do that. If it’s a small town without staff, the state police have staff. I’m a registered nurse, and I know whereof I speak. If drawing blood were necessary to deliver emergent care, the nurse would be legally protected from being sued by the patient, but a doctor would be making the request, not a cop. That’s obviously not what’s going on here. The cop sounds like a bully, to me.
“She told the officer a patient was required to give consent for a blood sample or be under arrest.”
Nonsense.
This would mean medical staff could never take blood from any unconscious accident victim.
Are you claiming a patient comes in to an ER and they can’t draw blood for tests if patient is unconscious?
I don't know the circumstances of this incident but the nurse was acting strictly professional and trying to follow the rules of the hospital....a doctor orders blood tests, not some stinking arrogant cop....
for that creep to man handle this woman like that is a CRIME imo...
The cop is definitely a bully, and probably a woman hater. He was, though, a trained phlebotomist, and that's what he was there for, to draw the blood, for the police, himself. His punishment, thus far, has been removal from blood-draw duty, but he remains on active duty as a cop.