How would you feel if your friend sent you videos of their patients in distress at the hospital where they worked, mocking them to you? Would you report them to the proper authorities?
This woman has a friend who works as a nurse at a very large hospital and sees multiple patients in a given day. But lately, her friend has been secretly recording her patients while making fun of them, and she’s so disgusted by her behavior.
“Sometimes she will send me videos/pictures of the patients who are clearly out of it or in distress. In these videos, she will often be laughing at them or [be] rude/aggressive in care,” she explained.
“The photos will always have some sort of caption making fun of them or lamenting about her job. I find this so morally corrupt and such an invasive thing to do to someone struggling.”
“And I’m certain this is a breach of confidentiality, so also against the rules placed in healthcare facilities. Should I report her to the nursing board?”
They live in Ontario, Canada, and she doesn’t want to make a report unless she can completely stay anonymous, so this doesn’t blow back on her.
She’s not even sure that she can remain anonymous when doing something about this, but she’s hoping it’s possible. She’s so disappointed in what her friend is doing that she no longer wants to even call her her friend.
Many times, her friend’s videos involve her physically supporting a patient with one arm while videoing them with her free hand, and she’s worried her friend could cause an accident on top of the emotional damage the videos would surely do if they became public.
Her friend always sends her the videos and photos over Snapchat, so they disappear before she has a chance to save copies of them as evidence.
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“I feel bad about the entire situation as I did value my friendship with her and saw how hard she worked in college (where we met) to get this job, only to do this,” she concluded.
You would think someone would want to be a nurse in order to help people, not hurt people, and what her friend is doing is beyond deplorable.
She should report her to the nursing board, because she’s breaking a code of conduct for sure here. Also, there has to be a way she can contact the hospital where her friend works to tip them off to the content she’s cruelly creating around her patients.
Both avenues are worth pursuing so she can put a stop to this. And in the meantime, she shouldn’t open Snapchats from her friend unless she has another phone handy to record the contents and capture proof.
What advice do you have for her?
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