Nurse who took prank call to Duchess of Cambridge kills herself

[operalover21]

A week that started with the happy news that the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting has ended with the tragic news that the nurse who took that awful prank call from those Aussie djs has taken her own life. Truly awful and tragic. Does Australia still have the death penalty? Those two djs should be strung up and stoned to death for contributing to this young woman's death.

[jjkrkwood]

A week that started with the happy news that the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting has ended with the tragic news that the nurse who took that awful prank call from those Aussie djs has taken her own life. Truly awful and tragic. Does Australia still have the death penalty? Those two djs should be strung up and stoned to death for contributing to this young woman's death.

 

 

 

OL, I truly agree it is a Tragic turn of events, and that the 2 DJ's probably contributed to the end result, but people who take their own lives have fragile and flawed psyches. This event could have been her breaking point, we dont know for sure.. But I am not one to advocate violence, which often serves no purpose. I will reserve further opinion on this until ALL the facts are in.

[+ deej]

The radio DJs have taken themselves off the air, indefinitely.

[EZEtoGRU]

The radio DJs have taken themselves off the air, indefinitely.

 

...and rightly so. I've always disliked radio DJ's that make prank calls. It's very childish and can have unexpected consequences.

[josephga]

I haven't followed this story I didn't even know what the prank was about.

[operalover21]

OL, I truly agree it is a Tragic turn of events, and that the 2 DJ's probably contributed to the end result, but people who take their own lives have fragile and flawed psyches. This event could have been her breaking point, we dont know for sure.. But I am not one to advocate violence, which often serves no purpose. I will reserve further opinion on this until ALL the facts are in.

 

All of that may be, quite possibly is, true but doesn't for one moment ameliorate the prank or the way pranks like that have denigrated our culture. Stuff like this isn't funny and the people who find it funny are just as guilty.

 

Today, the head of the Aussie radio station is making out like the djs are the victims. These people are pond scum. They make money by living off the misery of others. I, for one, don't think they deserve the "Santorum" from my latest sexual encounter.

 

It's time to put a stop to stuff like this. Calling a woman in hospital who is very ill as a prank? Call me crazy but that's not funny.

[operalover21]

The radio DJs have taken themselves off the air, indefinitely.

 

 

That's not good enough. They should be fired which the station, so far, has refused to do.

[AdamSmith]

There may be another dimension that I've yet to see remarked in the press. The nursing profession is harshly strict and punitive in its self-policing. As of course it should be, given that as patients our lives are in their hands even more directly, in enough ways, than in those of our physicians. Wonder how much of her action, if any, was from dread of professional retribution?

[Guest]

There may be another dimension that I've yet to see remarked in the press. The nursing profession is harshly strict and punitive in its self-policing. As of course it should be, given that as patients our lives are in their hands even more directly, in enough ways, than in those of our physicians. Wonder how much of her action, if any, was from dread of professional retribution?

I'm sorry, but I seemed to have missed the story about the prank. Did they get her to divulge patient information? I know that this kind of a slip-up can get a health care professional fired.

[gallahadesquire]

I'm sorry, but I seemed to have missed the story about the prank. Did they get her to divulge patient information? I know that this kind of a slip-up can get a health care professional fired.

 

Not to mention the $10,000 fine per error. Perhaps the UK and OZ don't have these regulation?

 

An anecdote: Our OUTLOOK contact list at the hospital where I worked had, as its first entry, "360 Senior": All the top administrators of the place. Someone sent some patient information to it in error. Rather than not reading and deleting, people were addressing "360 Senior" and wanting to know why they received the info. [i'm amazed at the number of people who don't realize that "Reply to all" means just that.

 

By the time it had gone around, oh, about twenty times, I calculated the fine as several tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.

 

As an aside: This is the same administration that "self-insures" for malpractice. The fund / company for "self-insurance" is located in the Grand Cayman islands.

 

It was a riot working there!

[JT Brooklyn]

Sad Story..May she R.I.P.

[+ FreshFluff]

There may be another dimension that I've yet to see remarked in the press. The nursing profession is harshly strict and punitive in its self-policing. As of course it should be, given that as patients our lives are in their hands even more directly, in enough ways, than in those of our physicians. Wonder how much of her action, if any, was from dread of professional retribution?

 

This was my thought, too. Let's be honest: She would have been fired had she not killed herself, and she knew she'd be unemployable after this.

[Steven_Draker]

Did they get her to divulge patient information? I know that this kind of a slip-up can get a health care professional fired.

 

The nurse who committed suicide was staffing the switchboard and is the one who transferred the call to the ward. Here's a recording of the prank call:

 

[video=youtube;BSYeVfj3w6g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BSYeVfj3w6g

 

According to Reuters: "William's office said there had been no royal complaint about the breach of confidentiality".

 

May she Rest In Peace.

[cany10011]

This is very sad. I'm sure she did it because she felt she let her hospital and the royal family down. People need to be able to look at the bigger picture and not be so sensitive to criticism or ridicule. It is only temporary. Nothing is worth killing yourself for. No one is going to commend you for saving face by killing yourself. It's just not worth it.

 

Look at all the nasty politicians who get caught with their pants down and later become known for their efforts in saving the environment or cleaning up the water in third world countries. We need to have more self esteem and care less about what others think.

[AdamSmith]

This was my thought, too. Let's be honest: She would have been fired had she not killed herself, and she knew she'd be unemployable after this.

 

Thus so, I sadly suspect. Know a couple of nurses who got caught up in fentanyl use, and got caught. Both are going through a year of in-patient rehab plus out-patient counseling, with mandatory (quite frequent) no-warning urine tests. But even at that, neither has much expectation of being employable again.

 

Obviously not to make any comparison to the pitiable victim of the prank call. Just to note the extremely stringent professional ethics.

[MsGuy]

I've read in a couple of English newspapers that neither the hopsital nor her accrediting association had taken or planned to take any action against her. Whatever triggered her actions, it wasn't fear of unemployment. Really all she did was to get hornswoggled into transferring the jokesters call through to a private nurse. And no doubt English being her second language played a part in that.

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AS, I can't speak for the North Carolina nurse's association, but here the authorities make a real effort to rehabilitate the RNs. LOL, I know one that has been through residential detox three times. Granted, the last time they put him under some tight restrictions for 2 years before they turned him loose without close supervision, but he never had any difficulty getting job offers.

[Jaker27]

The nurse who committed suicide was staffing the switchboard and is the one who transferred the call to the ward. Here's a recording of the prank call:

 

[video=youtube;BSYeVfj3w6g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BSYeVfj3w6g

 

According to Reuters: "William's office said there had been no royal complaint about the breach of confidentiality".

 

May she Rest In Peace.

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Not sure how you could fall for that joke. I fall for just about everything but even i would get that. It was just silly with all the background noise like the barking dogs, chirping birds and such lame over the top impersonations like "Hello i'm the Queen".

[Guest]

I've read in a couple of English newspapers that neither the hopsital nor her accrediting association had taken or planned to take any action against her. Whatever triggered her actions, it wasn't fear of unemployment. Really all she did was to get hornswoggled into transferring the jokesters call through to a private nurse. And no doubt English being her second language played a part in that.

 

I know that in many Asian cultures, being publicly humiliated is viewed as "losing face" and can be devastating. When I've traveled to Asian countries, guidebooks often warn that one should never criticize a person in front of others. It can bring disgrace to the whole family. Maybe her family went overboard. Asian cultures sometimes magnify these issues instead of putting them into perspective. That being said, there must have been other things going on in that woman's life. I've heard a lot of DJ's over here play embarrassing crank calls, although I suppose the callee would have to agree to have the phone call aired, and presumably gets compensated for the airing. When I went to UCLA, disc jockey Rick Dees used to do his "Candid Phones" and here in the San Francisco Bay Area, disc jockey Don Blue does his "Bluepers in the morning." I would think that in these cases, the person the disc jockey calls would have to consent to have the conversation on the air, since I don't think these are live. I've always been surprised, though, that these DJ's have never seemed to be sued for intention infliction of emotional distress.