Dining Room Situation

Friday evening, dinner time. Skilled Nursing Facility.

Nurse 1 is in charge of hall 3.She informs her colleagues that she is going on break, and drives herself to a nearest drive thru.

Nurse 2 is an admissions RN who doubles as an "evening supervisor". She has an admission in process in hall 4.

Nurse 3 is in charge of hall 1, and has a re-admission in process.

While both Nurses 2 and 3 are busy doing their things, they both get paged into the main dining room, along with nurse 4, who is not relevant in this situation.

Nurse 3 arrives there first. She sees couple of CNAs hovering over an elderly man seated at the table, who is a patient of nurse 1, who is on break. She asks what happened, and gets pieces of information: suddenly passed out, and had periods of apnea. Pulse thready and weak, O2 93 RA. Nurse 3 tries to perform a neuro check on the patient, while someone is getting a wheelchair and a BP cuff.

Nurse 2 arrives and asks what happened. Nurse 3 fills her in. Nurse 2 then starts to laugh and rub patients face, and states he is asleep. "Listen, he is snoring!" she yells, and pulls Nurse's 3 head toward the patient. Nurse 3 informs her she is out of line acting the way she is.

Patient is wheeled into his room, hypotensive, but "wakes up" after a while and is being monitored by Nurse 1, who returned after her break. Nurse 3 returns to her hall, and is busy with 2100 med pass and half done re-admission. Nurse 2 walks over, and tries to explain her behavior, but is being told this is a busy time, and Nurse 3 does not wish to go over what happened right this minute and walks away. After half an hour Nurse 2 asks if Nurse 3 needs help with her re-admission, but nurse 3 turns her down.

What rights and issues are seen in such situation?