Winel Andrea George has been a Florida R.N. since 2017. But when working at Palm Garden of Aventura on November 12, 2024, George initiated CPR on 68-year-old A.S. even though A.S. had a DNR order. The state Board of Nursing determined that this failed to meet "minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing nursing practice."
At the end of December 2025, George settled the administrative complaint for $4200, most of which was reimbursement for the investigation.
I will shortly be updating this website with more civil monetary fines, settlements, and jury verdicts against clinicians and entities for administering life-sustaining treatment contrary to an advance directive or POLST.
Are DNACPRs viewed as binding then? Not so in England. More advisory with the people attending the arrest being ultimate decision makers.
ReplyDeleteYes. Like advance directives and POLSTs, DNR orders are binding in the United States. They must be followed unless there is an extraordinarily strong reason to suspect that they are forgeries or otherwise invalid or inapplicable.,
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