Elizabeth Donahue reviews the highly publicized case of Alex Wubbels, the Utah nurse arrested by police for protecting her patient, in the blog
In Practice: Reflections from NPs and PAs.
An annual national Gallup poll of Americans has ranked nursing the highest among 21 major professions in terms of honesty and ethics — for the 15th year in a row. For nurse practitioner Elizabeth Donahue, blogger for In Practice: Reflections for NPs and PAs, the recent story of a Utah hospital nurse, who was arrested for refusing to draw blood from an unconscious patient as ordered by police, offers the perfect, inspiring example of why nurses earn that ranking.
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