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In reply to the discussion: Black Nurse Sues Hospital for Not Letting Her Take Care of White Baby [View all]Butterbean
(1,014 posts)Although the patient is an elderly white patient who states she herself doesn't want a black nurse. Anyhoo, as long as I can remember, as long as I've worked for our hospital, the policy has ALWAYS been that the patient is not allowed to pick and choose nurses based on skin color or religious background. Gender, yes (for example female Muslim patients who only want to be attended by females).
I don't know if it's federal policy or what, but fact is, at my hospital, the law of the land is that this father had no case. Now, given that the charge nurse was probably scared shitless of him (I know I would have been), what she SHOULD HAVE done is immediately called patient relations and the nursing supervisor. I dunno, it sounds like the charge nurse either is a new one or hasn't been in many hairy situations before.
At any rate, yeah, it's gonna go to court and get ugly, but in the end I do believe the nurse is the one with the valid case here, if my hospital's policy is any sort of precedent.