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In reply to the discussion: Black Nurse Sues Hospital for Not Letting Her Take Care of White Baby [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Although in the end the hospital did the right thing, their management should have consulted with their law dept. before they took action.
It's also a classic example of managers up the hierarchy who, legal issues aside, have no hands-on experience and no concept of the practical nightmare that would create for scheduling.
The fact that it even got kicked up the ladder versus an immediate "sorry, we can't do that," leaves me wondering if fear of neo-Nazi influenced the decision-making.
As a practical matter, smaller hospitals in particular would have been totally unable to even consider honoring his request. Where I work as a lab tech, overnight and for several daytime hours on weekends, there is only one person on duty to do timed, emergency and OB blood draws on in-patients.
And occasionally our ED looks like a tv show with patients stacked in the aisles and staff running flat out for hours on end.
In those situations, you get who's on duty, like them or not.