NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A registered sex offender has been arrested on a charge of sexual battery after police said he repeatedly groped a nurse caring for him at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Vanderbilt University police responded around 10 a.m. Tuesday to a hospital room, where a staff member reported being sexually assaulted by a patient.
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During my stint as a guard, there were some inmates who had to be watched closely while in the hospital. Nurses usually regarded guards as scum for 'chaining those poor, injured people to the bed', and I regarded it as duty in a hostile environment.
ReplyDeleteDid have one hospital that, for a while, had nurses who treated us better - after an inmate dropped the act and behaved in a more normal fashion :)
Frank
Back in the day, we had a saying for this kind of behavior, " The 37 cent solution". That was the cost of a 30 ought 6 shell. This puke needs this real bad.
ReplyDeleteAt one time, treatment consisted of a bed pan upside the head. Two or three times.
ReplyDeleteWe were not allowed to chain inmates to fixed objects, But hospital beds are not stationary. In most cases wheeling the inmate out on a bed would be faster trying to get them out of bed and shuffling down the hallway. As far as groping the medical staff The officer sent to watch that dirt-bag should be fired for not doing their job.
ReplyDeletethe nurse was assisting [46-yo patient Earl Buckley] with changing his diaper and bedding
ReplyDeleteFuck, did y'all get a look at that critter? That boy ain't right.
My last official call night of residency the code pager went off on 4 (the fourth floor, Surgery) so I ran to the room. Three nurses were standing at the bedside looking agitated but each silent. The patient was a thin young black male, calmly holding his hand to the left side of his neck. On the wall facing him, about 10 feet away, was a spray of bright red arterial blood. Everything seemed weirdly normal, despite the blood on the wall.
"Which one of you is his nurse? Can you tell me what happened?"
As it happened his nurse was the middle-aged Nigerian woman staring wide-eyed at the patient. She turned out to have a terrible stammer under stress. "Huh huh huh, HE je je JUST ..." I was tempted to look for the camera (a la Candid Camera for you old folks of my vintage, Punk'd for you young punks) but figured that hurrying her was not going to help. So to do something constructive in the meantime I thought I'd check the patient's foot pulses on the basis that if I could feel his DP and PT pulses then his SBP was probably 90's or above. I put my hand under the sheets at the foot of the bed and encountered leg irons, which I had not expected. Eventually I found out the patient, who looked all of 18 at most, was from the State Prison. He was sent to hospital to have a tumor on his neck removed. The removal was successful, but something opened up later (obviously) and he shot blood out his carotid artery (!). The patient was remarkably calm, holding in his lifeblood with his own right hand. We called Surgery and gently suggested they might want to come back in, activate the OR, and deal with their patient. I'm told the second surgery went well. Anyway, that's my prisoner-in-hospital story.