we also paid him to draw up the lease for our truck.
For CPR??? What's going to happen ... break a finger nail ?
For CPR??? What's going to happen ... break a finger nail ?
I did mention CPR, as that is the essence of this report
On top of the moral issue, if they are not licensed to provide medical services, why hire a nurse?
If you didn't read the article, why ask questions? The second sentence says the staffer was not a nurse, but a 'resident services director', and nowhere does it say they even have any nurses on site. It's an 'assisted living facility', where the assistance may be with meals, housekeeping, transportation, etc, but not medical.
Still, performing CPR when someone stops breathing can hardly be considered giving medical treatment as the term is generally understood, and the failure to do so is indefensible, IMO.
That "nurse" is one disgusting witch.
On top of the moral issue, if they are not licensed to provide medical services, why hire a nurse?
If you didn't read the article, why ask questions? The second sentence says the staffer was not a nurse, but a 'resident services director', and nowhere does it say they even have any nurses on site. It's an 'assisted living facility', where the assistance may be with meals, housekeeping, transportation, etc, but not medical.
Still, performing CPR when someone stops breathing can hardly be considered giving medical treatment as the term is generally understood, and the failure to do so is indefensible, IMO.
That "nurse" is one disgusting witch.
I DID read the article AND listened to the 911 call, many times. The woman said clearly that she was a nurse.
"According to a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department, the woman told Halvorson that she was a nurse at Glenwood Gardens, a senior living facility in Bakersfield. But the nurse refused to give the woman CPR as directed by the dispatcher, saying it was against the facility's policy for staff to do so, according to the tape."
"On the tape, a different Glenwood Gardens employee said that an elderly woman had passed out in the facility's dining room while eating. She was barely breathing and, according to KGET-TV, did not have a do-not-resuscitate order.
For the next several minutes, Halvorson begged the nurse to begin CPR, saying something had to be done before an ambulance arrived.
After the nurse repeatedly refused, Halvorson asked her to find a passerby or anyone who would be willing to help. Halvorson said she would talk someone through performing CPR.
"I understand if your facility is not willing to do that," Halvorson told the nurse. "Give the phone to that passerby, that stranger … this woman's not breathing enough.... She's going to die if we don't get this started.... I don't understand why you're not willing to help this patient."
The nurse could be heard talking to someone else at the facility.
"She's yelling at me," she said of Halvorson, "and saying we have to have one of our residents perform CPR. I'm feeling stressed, and I'm not going to do that, make that call." "
The woman fainted Feb. 26 in the dining room of Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, prompting an unidentified woman to dial 911 and ask for paramedics. (Listen to the call.)