A Nurses Duty to act

[Mellissa81]

I'm looking for opinions for a situation.

Is it a nurses duty to get immediate medical treatment ( I'm meaning call 911 ) for a person in their home who has a medical emergency?

I'm not asking if he / she should give medical treatment, but I'm saying get EMS to a person with a life or death situation?

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

1) You are not being specific enough. Was the nurse working on behalf of the patient or was the nurse off duty and it was just a social visit?

And...was it the nurse's house or the nurse was a visitor to someone else's house?

[Vicki17, BSN]

Wouldn't that be anyone's duty? If you live or in a home with another and there is an emergency, to ignore and watch them suffer or die would be at the least immoral, at the most illegal I would imagine. Maybe I'm not understanding your question.

[Crush]

There has to be more to this story. But I cannot imagine just sitting by while another human being obviously needs help.

[Crush]

There has to be more to this story. But I cannot imagine just sitting by while another human being obviously needs help.

[heron, ASN, RN]

My purely intuitive hit is that the OP is trolling for possible grounds to up the ante in a lawsuit against a home-owner's insurance.

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

Yes, it's a nurse's duty. Also the duty of Enzo the baker, the Hooters waitress with the red hair, that 8 year old next door with the new Iphone and dirty Joe from Queens.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

So the OP posts a bizarre question lacking important details, and doesn't bother to come back to clarify, comment, or thank anyone for their input. Why bother responding to this person?

[heron, ASN, RN]

So the OP posts a bizarre question lacking important details, and doesn't bother to come back to clarify, comment, or thank anyone for their input. Why bother responding to this person?

Because it's fun to speculate. Wouldn't be the first time someone came hunting for legal ammunition.

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

Yes, it's a nurse's duty. Also the duty of Enzo the baker, the Hooters waitress with the red hair, that 8 year old next door with the new Iphone and dirty Joe from Queens.

Folks, you win the internets today!

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Depends on whether or not it's one of my ex- husbands.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Because it's fun to speculate. Wouldn't be the first time someone came hunting for legal ammunition.

Do people think "a lot of people on a random internet forum agree with me," is a valid argument in court?

[heron, ASN, RN]

Do people think "a lot of people on a random internet forum agree with me," is a valid argument in court?

No, but failure to rescue or otherwise failing to carry out a legal duty is a valid argument. A claim against a home-owner's insurance becomes much more lucrative if you can throw in professional malpractice.