Is this considered patient abandonment?

[lindsmith88]

I'm a nursing student and am in the process of doing my preceptorship. The other day my nurse and I were notified that we would be getting a patient from the ER. We didn't know the patient had arrived until the nursing assistant told us. They dropped the patient off and left and we never received any kind of report, so we knew nothing about the patient. Is this considered abandonment?

[nitngale88]

I am a PACU nurse for pediatric patients with general anesthesia. If a patient is scheduled to come out of the MRI at 9 pm while being monitored by a CRNA and an anesthesiologist and my scheduled hours are from 8 am to 8:30 pm and at 8:30 pm and at 6:30 pm I informed my director that I will not stay beyond 8:30 pm to accept this patient (I had not received report on this patient nor did I know who the patient was) and he told me I could not leave because it would be consider patient abandonment. Is this true?

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

In my state, refusal to stay and work after your shift has ended is not considered patient abandonment.

[nitngale88]

Thank you from your input.