Utah nurse arrested after refusing to let police draw blood from unconscious patient

A charge nurse in the burn unit at the University of Utah Hospital says she was assaulted by a Salt Lake City police detective after she told the detective he couldn’t draw blood from a patient who was unconscious, a violation of hospital policy.

“I just feel betrayed, I feel angry, I feel a lot of things, and I am still confused,” nurse Alex Wubbels said during a news conference Thursday, according to the Deseret News. “I’m a healthcare worker. The only job I have is to keep my patients safe. A blood draw, it just gets thrown around like it’s some simple thing. But blood is your blood. That’s your property, and when a patient comes in a critical state, that blood is extremely important, and I don’t take it lightly.”