Excuse me for asking a common sense question. If the suspect is dead in the ER what difference does it make where the blood is drawn? Or why even draw it all? It it has to be drawn couldn't that be done in the coroner's office?
He was a reserve police officer. Probably acquainted with the cop at the hospital. The cop probably knew that he didn't drink or use drugs and wanted to make sure that he had evidence to clear him if he was charged with anything.
Utah law requires any commercial driver to have post-accident drug and alcohol testing "within 2 hours, but not more than 8 hours", regardless of whether they're suspected of a crime. This may also be a Federal requirement. https://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:80:0:::1:T,V:4200,
Aaaaand......the hospital has changed it's policy. "a Utah hospital said its nurses will no longer be allowed to interact with law enforcement agents. The new hospital protocol was announced Monday by Pearce, hospital leadership and the university's police chief during a news conference. Instead of interacting with nurses, law enforcement officers will be directed to health supervisors "who are highly trained on rules and laws," and those interactions won't take place in patient care areas, officials said. The new protocol was implemented two weeks after the incident, and so far, 2,500 nurses have been trained in it, Pearce said." http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ho...ver-patients-blood-draw/ar-AArkVag?li=BBnb7Kz Hindsight, 20/20 and all but this should have been the case from inception. There was never a good reason to pit officers and nurses against each other over policy, and definitely not in patient care areas. There should be a natural kinship of sorts that can produce positive outcomes. Sad in a way that a formal separation has been put in place but hopefully over time, that will iron itself out.
I know this shit show ended but there is one last and additional update. The officer was fired from his second job, which was as an ambulance driver. But they fired him for comments he made to the nurse during their "exchange". His comments suggested that he would bring transients to University of Utah Hospital, where RN Wubbels worked, while transporting "good" patients to another facility. What a maroon. Dude clearly has issues.
Yep. Before he arrested the nurse he may have been on solid legal ground but evidently didn't have the intellectual/emotional ability to explain it to the nurse, which apparently is the root cause of the matter.
