A Utah nurse’s violent arrest by blood-lusting-vampire-cop puts patient-consent law — and poLICE conduct — in the spotlight

The videotaped arrest of a nurse at a Salt Lake City hospital — after she told police, correctly, that they weren’t allowed to draw blood from an unconscious patient — has been roundly condemned by national nursing organizations, Utah officials and even the local police department.
The July 26 incident, captured by an officer’s body camera, was made public last week after the nurse came forward. Since then, several groups have echoed the nurse’s outrage, calling for greater consequences for the police detective in question and demanding increased awareness of patient-consent laws.
In the footage, Jeff Payne, a detective with the Salt Lake City Police Department, confronts Alex Wubbels, a nurse in the burn unit at the University of Utah Hospital, over her polite but firm insistence that police could not collect blood samples from a badly injured patient. Payne didn’t have a warrant, Wubbels pointed out. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/03/a-utah-nurses-violent-arrest-puts-patient-consent-law-and-police-conduct-in-the-spotlight/

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A Utah nurse’s violent arrest by blood-lusting-vampire-cop puts patient-consent law — and poLICE conduct — in the spotlight

A Utah nurse’s violent arrest by blood-lusting-vampire-cop puts patient-consent law — and poLICE conduct — in the spotlight

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