California lawmakers on Tuesday sent Gov. Jerry Brown, would prohibit employers have policies that prohibit in case of emergency life-saving medical help after striking workers refuse to perform CPR on a legislative lived in a separate living facilities.
The bill by Rep. Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, suggesting Lorraine - Bayless, 87, in Bakersfield retirement home February death.
Case provoked outrage when a woman who identified herself as a nurse told 911 dispatcher that her company's policy to prevent her from performing CPR. Bayless canteen collapsed in Glenwood Gardens on February 26, someone called 911 and requested an ambulance.
Scheduling begged the nurse to find someone else to perform CPR, and said she would provide a description of how to do this, but the woman refused.
"I understand, if your device is not willing to do so," the dispatcher 特蕾西霍尔 Watson said. "Give phone a passer-by, this woman does not have enough breath, she was going to die if we do not get this started you understand me?"
Ambulance personnel arrived, Bayless had stopped breathing.
Sen. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, who carried AB633 in the Senate, said the legislation will save employees "to choose between saving the life of a fellow and was fired to break the company's policy difficult position." Torres is a former 911 operator.
The bill says employers may not adopt or enforce any policy prohibiting workers voluntarily provide medical services, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It does not require or imply that employers should be responsible for staff training for emergency medical services or CPR.
The Senate unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday, sending it to brown.
Bakersfield home owner, Dyer Senior Living, initially said, until emergency personnel arrived its employees doing the right thing, but later said the workers misunderstood the company's guidelines.
Bayless's family said she wanted to die, naturally do not want CPR.
 



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