A Short Story..
My FiL was in for a bi-pass. He was 79 yo and had a 15 yr history of heart problems including a 12 yo pig value that was at end of the trail. He had lost his wife of 59 yrs 6 months earlier and was in decline. He knew it, we knew it, the priest knew it.
He had a DNR prepared at Admittance (hospital spicific, state format). It followed him thru the OR and CICU, no problems.
The day they moved him to semi-private he went into cardiac failure. The wife was there, called me and the priest.
When the monitor beeped for the last, the floor nurse rushes in and wants to re-sus.
We told her there was a DNR and blocked her access.
Nurse starts yelling for security and climbing over the bed to get to Dad...
My wife went hysterical and I went ballistic..
The Super shows just as I am about to pop missy nurse in the nose.
As I stop to explain why I was going to pop the nurse, she starts yelling she didn't care because the order was not in her hands. As if she had the final say..
I cocked back the hammer and the Super said Please Stop, there is no need,, She knew the order was coming up from CICU.
The nurse still didn't want to stop.. Two other floor nurses held her back from getting a good pop..
This was in Florida 18 yrs ago..
It was as close as I ever want to get to going to jail,, But I would have...
End Story..
