Does company policy trump ethical or legal obligations?ģ. Did the nurse have a duty of care to this person - even if she had only passed her by on the street?Ģ.
And only about 18% of seniors who receive CPR at the hospital survive to be discharged, according to a study from Ehlenbach and colleagues. Another from 2009 showed that anywhere from 4% to 16% of patients who received bystander CPR were eventually discharged from the hospital. A 2012 study showed that only about 2% of adults who collapse on the street and receive CPR recover fully. Fortunately for this company, Bayless family members said she did not want life-prolonging treatment.īelieve it or not, this case study is not about whether or not an 87-year-old person should receive CPR: it is, after all is said and done, a matter of personal choice for the patient. Shortly after this report, Brookdale Senior Living issued a statement saying the employee’s failure to heed to a 911 dispatcher’s directions was a mistaken interpretation of the policy. The press reports that there was no Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directive in place. According to the Associated Press, a Brookdale Senior Residence facility* worker who identified herself as a nurse, refused to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to Lorraine Bayless, an 87-year-old woman who collapsed in the facility’s dining hall because “It was against company policy.” Although the nurse called 911, and the dispatcher urged her to start CPR or to find someone who was willing to do so, the nurse refused.
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