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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-soviet-russia-you-pay-nurse dept.

NPR reports a nurse in Utah who was arrested on July 26th in Utah has reached a $500,000 settlement with the city and hospital system. Nurse Alex Wubbels was arrested by Detective Jeff Payne for refusing to take a blood sample from a patient without the patient's consent or a warrant. When she tried to present the detective with the hospital policy on the subject, the Detective announced she was under arrest and took her away in handcuffs. The Detective has since been fired after it was initially reported that he was "counseled."

At the beginning of the [body camera] video, she is seen calmly reading the officer the hospital's policy not to allow blood to be drawn without a warrant or the patient's consent, unless the patient is under arrest. "This is something you guys agreed to with this hospital," she explains. Then the officer lunges at Wubbels, forces her outside and handcuffs her as she screams that she has done nothing wrong. The footage drew widespread outrage when it was released by the nurse and her attorney. It became part of a broader conversation about police use of force.

The Washington Post reported, "Wubbels said she will donate some of the proceeds to a fund that will help people obtain body camera footage and provide free legal aid for open records requests. She is also planning to use the money to raise awareness about workplace violence against nurses." Alex Wubbels, in a guest blog post at the American Nurses Association, describes the campaign as #EndNurseAbuse. Workplace violence against nurses is not something covered that often outside the profession, and yet something every ER worker knows about. Usually, though, it isn't the police who are the perpetrators.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:26AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:26AM (#590928) Journal

    Please, all you bradleys, return your unearned income back to the common pool of society at large.

    Letting aside the discrimination against bradleys, why would the society have to contribute to unearned income of all the others non-bradleys?

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:17PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:17PM (#591166)

    Nobody said the money was contributing "unearned income of all the others non-bradleys". You see, I have a friend named Bill, and a bridge that needs repairs, and if Bill repairs the bridge, then Bill has enough money to help me get re-elected, so I can find another bridge for Bill to repair with Bradleys' money...