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Misinformation PSA

mrkenyon:

former-fatty:

harostar:

So I’ve seen a story circulating around social media, and I figured I would do a little debunking to prevent misinformation.

In the story, a woman claiming to be a black Pediatric/Cardiac Nurse states that a racist couple prevented her from caring for their infant, resulting in the child’s death.

As the daughter of a Critical Care Nurse (the highest certification level for a Nurse), and someone that works with Hospital Security and a police department that deals with the hospital on a daily basis…….nothing in her story makes sense.

Claim: She was the only person that could perform the life-saving task.

Fact: Nurses are primarily tasked with routine patient care and assisting doctors. Even CCRNs do not perform procedures themselves, and hospitals have a Code/Crash Team that responds to any critical situation. The doctors are the ones that actually perform complex or major tasks. Had she claimed to be the Specialist On Call, that would be more believable. But she stated she’s a nurse, and therefore would NOT have been the “only person capable of performing the task”.

Claim: The parents threatened and physically assaulted her, forcing her to leave the room.

Fact: Any time patients’ family causes problems, Security is called to remove them from the immediate area. If they threaten or assault staff, Police are called. Family are not allowed to interfere with the ability of staff to provide medical care. A police report is always filed should someone assault hospital staff.

Claim: Hospital Staff were forced to stand by and watch the baby die due to the parents’ hostility.

Fact: Hospitals have a Social Worker and/or Patient Advocate present, who is there to take over as the Custodian and Guardian of patients. They represent the rights of the patient, should the parents/guardians be endangering the patient or otherwise be felt to be a danger to them.

So in conclusion, the story reads as completely false based on my personal knowledge and experience.

ETA: It seems that she removed the story from her Twitter account, further indicating that something was fishy.

@zorphs just FYI, the nurse story is a fake.

Seeing as this story had popped up on my dash a couple times…

(via knitmeapony)

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