Reply To: Nurse Refused To Initiate CPR, What Is Your Opinion?

DNR isn’t the issue here.

When someone passes out, you do not withhold resuscitation because the patient MIGHT have a signed DNR, the DNT has to be present in order for it to be effective (this is in the preshospital setting).

The nurse did not state that the reason she refuses CPR is because the PT has a DNR signed, only because she is not allowed to save that persons life.

She coldly refused to give over the phone to someone else, she did not CARE that a life is ending in front of her eyes, this is a life that MIGHT have been saved should act differently.