What would you do?

[cowgurl89]

So here's the back story....one of the nurses on the unit went into respiratory distress. She was yelling and screaming for oxygen and a nebulizer treatment no one did anything except call 911. The supervisor stated that he did not want to lose his license and the administrator said it was against the facility policy to give any type of treatment. The nurse died on the unit before the ambulance came. What would you have done in this situation? Would you have risked your license if you believed that you could have possibly saved the nurses life?

[llg, PhD, RN]

And this is a pretty pathetic excuse for a homework assignment for a DNP....this might qualify for a freshman RN, but a doctorate assignment, come on.

Definitely. This "case example" is pathetic.

[NurseOnAMotorcycle, ASN, RN]

I'm really thinking that all of these first time posters are the same person, even maybe the OP.

[cgonzalez]

I get what you're saying within the context of this thread, but life isn't "our priority above everything". Just ask a hospice nurse or a LTC nurse.

Then what is the role of a nurse? Even in hospice your trying to make life palliative and more comfortable before death. That's the distinction between a nurse and doctor we have the empathy and feelings attached i agree of course in some sense to that point and I get the story is missing alot of facts but if it was a real scenario my license cost me blood and tears and I do hold it to high standards but...

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

Thread closed for staff review.