Nurse Arrested For... Obstructing Justice? Or Following the Law?

I seriously doubt that. I'm in the private sector now.

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I meant when you were an officer.

I know you aren't one now.

I seriously hope you can stick it out. Dad finally popped the cork three years ago. My self-respect for not being part of a fundamentally broken and borderline criminal organization was worth more than getting a retirement check a few years earlier.

Yeah you shouldn't be wandering off in other patient areas anyway because of HIPPA.

You seem to think that I just wander about a hospital. I don't. I head to a bathroom or an available lounge or outside to get food.

Officers shouldn't be wandering around a hospital. Not sure why you think I'm arguing with you on that.

I'll defer on this since I'm not police so when I'm in a hospital I've already got an inmate with me.

Talk as in just talking. I think you're thinking like an police officer while I'm thinking like a corrections officer.

I'm not looking to get statements from staff. I'm just there to make sure the inmate doesn't escape.

I'm talking small talk. Like how you doing, what's up, see the game and so on.

You can't bar people from having conversation.

I'm not going to rat him out.

Nope. Signs all over the bathrooms to call if it's filthy. So why wouldn't I?

I have seen some nasty bathrooms at hospitals.

Different areas of the country.

I'm in a big metro area where everyone has their little fiefdoms that they guard jealousy. Hell I could give you some insane examples within my own department.

What a coincidence. So am I.

Again different areas of the country with different mindsets.

South Florida is not like wherever you worked. Where you worked isn't like South Florida.

Oh and this cop is also a EMT. He really needs to be fired from that job.

Can't trust him after what he said about taking patients too and from various hospitals.

Out of curiosity -- having an arrest on record can effectively bar a health practitioner from working, right?

Most likely.

It really depends on what you were arrested for. The state could yank your license if the crime is serious enough or is related to the medical field.

But while she was technically arrested she wasn't arrested in the sense that she was charged with anything. She was let go 20 minutes later by a supervisor who was probably hoping to sweep the whole thing under the rug.

So she would be in no danger if she were to try and get another job somewhere else.

Nah. The Board of Nursing doesn't care that you got picked up for public intox in college. The hospital may and they'll be ticked when it turns up on your criminal background check and you didn't disclose it. But, as far as your license? Nah.

Take that Doctor that was committing Medicare fraud. He lost his freedom and that resulted in him losing his practice. He also lost the ability to ever participate in Medicare again. But, it didn't cost him his license. He was most certainly a thief, but that doesn't mean he was a bad doctor. Generally, you only lose your license for stuff directly relating to your job performance.

And, considering all the ruckus and publicity, I'm thinking this "arrest" will be expunged from her record.

Forbin having affair with actresss played Jadzia Dax.

It can't be expunged because it doesn't exist.

She wasn't charged with anything official. They just put her in the car for 20 minutes. Yes it is IMHO a false arrest and she should sue but there is no record for her to worry about.

Get out of my head!!

The way I understand it, they're not prohibiting staff from talking to the police. They're prohibiting police from talking to nurses. They'll have to liaise through "House Supervisors", whatever those are.

Chain of command, baby.

What Forbin said. House supervisor makes sure all units have proper #nurses to care for patients, notifies units when they need to assign for admissions/transfers. They are also the voice of administration after hours, though there is always one higher level administrator on call to handle things they(supervisors) dont or can't.

That's in progress. Well, he's on administrative leave, anyway.

http://fox13now.com/2017/09/04/golds-cross-ambulance-places-detective-on-administrative-leave/

Should forbin be ezri for halloween?

And?

Didn't say hospital can't do this.

Said that you can't punish a nurse for talking to a police officer even if it's not "official" business.

Especially if the hospital is government owned.

Who suggested punishing a nurse for talking to a cop?

This is starting to sound like a porn film scenario.

"Oh officer I've been bad and need to be punished!"

Dayton should be the nurse.

And not for nothing, but "Wubbles" sounds like a character in a British comedy series.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Gold Cross Ambulance has terminated Jeff Payne effective immediately.

I wonder if SLC has an arrangement like Nashville is said to have? Nashville's got a bunch of hospitals close together, but in cases, where the police are likely to want to interrogate/arrest the patients, they're sent to Vanderbilt, whenever possible. Perhaps this is the hospital's way of saying, "If you can safely send them someplace else, do so."

So is it possible for a civilian use physical violence in self defense against an on duty police officer? I'm not asking if it's wise or not. I'm just wondering if she had somehow beaten the shit out of that cop, and then, of course, been subdued by the other cops...is it possible for the courts to say that she had acted in self defense?

To expand on that, if LEOs did a no knock warrant on the wrong house, and the homeowner killed the cops thinking it was a home invasion, would it be at all possible that the homeowner could be found justified, assuming the homeowner survived the encounter?

In Texas, it is legal to shoot a cop if they are using excessive force unnecessarily. Other states supposedly have similar laws.

Let's hope we never have to find out, but I imagine it would end up in civil court.

It's rare, but it happens.

Jurors explain why they acquitted man of officer involved shooting