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<blockquote data-quote="Capm_Spaulding" data-source="post: 2124643" data-attributes="member: 17977"><p>Need a bit more info to be released before I say that nurse was wrong in what she did. Policies are there for a reason, who knows if CPR would have even saved her, most likely at that age it would have done more harm than good, as well as at 87 she was probably DNR. That dispatcher was annoying and needs another job, she can&#039;t bring emotion to that setting, that 87 year old was a patient not someones grandma and you have to make that distinction while you are on the job otherwise it&#039;ll tear you in two. I can&#039;t believe she told a nurse &quot;if she doesn&#039;t get enough air she will die&quot;.... who has the degree and who doesn&#039;t? Current CPR does not involve mouth to mouth anyways... that dispatcher was too uninformed. At my hospital if one of the nurses tried to resuscitate a dying 87 year old DNR patient knowing it was against policy to perform CPR anyways, she would be fired, her nursing license stripped, and the case sent to the DA for charges. Unless there is more to the story, I say kudos to that nurse for not taking instructions from some uneducated dispatcher.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Capm_Spaulding, post: 2124643, member: 17977"] Need a bit more info to be released before I say that nurse was wrong in what she did. Policies are there for a reason, who knows if CPR would have even saved her, most likely at that age it would have done more harm than good, as well as at 87 she was probably DNR. That dispatcher was annoying and needs another job, she can't bring emotion to that setting, that 87 year old was a patient not someones grandma and you have to make that distinction while you are on the job otherwise it'll tear you in two. I can't believe she told a nurse "if she doesn't get enough air she will die".... who has the degree and who doesn't? Current CPR does not involve mouth to mouth anyways... that dispatcher was too uninformed. At my hospital if one of the nurses tried to resuscitate a dying 87 year old DNR patient knowing it was against policy to perform CPR anyways, she would be fired, her nursing license stripped, and the case sent to the DA for charges. Unless there is more to the story, I say kudos to that nurse for not taking instructions from some uneducated dispatcher. [/QUOTE]

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