WARNING: Some of the images featured in the above video are graphic.
SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - The District Attorney's office is looking into whether it will file criminal charges against two local nurses hired to care for a 98-year-old woman in a shocking case of apparent abuse.
According to the complaint filed with the Board of Registered Nursing, their on-the-job conduct was "vile, disrespectful and abusive" and much of it was captured on tape.
"The images themselves are extremely disturbing and were a huge shock to my clients," said William Berman the attorney for the patient's family....
Gross. I wish I had not watched the video. I only hope that the patient's mental capacity is such that she is unaware of what was happening, or immediately forgot it.
JenRN30, BSN
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This seriously makes me sick to my stomach. That poor woman. The family probably feels so guilty, even though they couldn't have known.