Maybe it was a race thing timec. Maybe the woman was just a witch and they couldn’t wait for her to die. Even the daughter is barely making a fuss. Maybe the only ones making a fuss are the chicken-little media.

There might still be a lawsuit depending on how the contract reads or what it implies.
For a nurse not to make an effort at CPR, nor even attempt to get someone else to do so, sounds like a violation of professional ethics. The nurse refused to follow the dispatcher’s instructions. Is that a liability?The daughter’s response sounded capricious for her mother’s death.
Strange story. In any case, a good lesson on why elderly should not be put into these warehouses.

The whole story is sad. JT has explained in the past, that the dispatchers instructions are really just “suggestions” , but I have my doubts about that.
The good Samaritan law will protect a lay person from law suits,according to the news. The difference between a independent living facility and a assisted living facility is weird, but if you want to live choose the one that will provide first aide.
Personally I can not imagine standing by and doing nothing ~ especially if I was a “nurse”.

Something seems very wrong indeed. Even if she had a DNR (and if they did why wouldn’t the place produce it by now as a defesne?) there seems to be some question as to whether she was fully out of it from the start or whether they could have rendered aid that didn’t qualify as full resuscitation. Reports indicate she was breathing some. DNR is usually used in hospitals when it’s clear that the patient is approaching end of life and resuscitating would just prolong suffering. Some are even written with such qualifiers.

Also, yes there is a Good Samaritan law that protects a person trying to help in situations like this. I know this because I had to do CPR a number of years ago when an older guy keeled over in a hotel conference room and I was the only one who knew how. Saved the guy’s life. I’d do it again any time, regardless of the “policy” someone was waving in my face.

sage, there are NO California criminal laws that require someone to obey what they are told to do or not do by a dispatcher. If you have your doubts, prove it to me.

It would have been the HUMANE thing to do.

And I’ll bet the warehouse is scurrying like crazy to find the DNR, if there is one. My mother asked for and got a DNR but that was intended for the possibility of her being comatose and on life support.
In any case, the nurse didn’t say “This patient is a DNR.” She ignored her professional ethics, standard morals, and the pleas to do something to save a person’s life.
True, there is no legal obligation to help a person in an emergency situation. If i see a toddler drowning in three feet of water and I don’t want to ruin my new shoes, there’s no law that says I have rescue him or even call for help. But if I do volunteer to help, I’m liable if I change my mind.
The nurse called 911 but balked at following through to save a life. If she isn’t liable, she should be. Company policy does not trump the law.