Nurse loses license for taking pics of male genitals

[anthonyg (imported)]

Just wanted to know what others thought about this nurse who took pictures of an unconscious males penis, etc. and then sent them to colleagues. Was his penis different? Special? huge? or what reason did she do it? Was it funny to her? She lost her livelihood over something dumb.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nurse-who-p ... s-license/

FULTON, N.Y. --An upstate New York nurse convicted of taking a photo of an unconscious patient's penis with her iPhone last year has surrendered her license,reports CBS affiliate WSTM (http://cnycentral.com/news/local/nurse- ... rs-license).

Kristen Johnson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disseminating of unlawful surveillance photos, and as part of a plea deal agreed to give up her license and spend three years on probation.

Johnson was the focus of a nine-month investigation after coworkers at Upstate University Hospital told authorities that she sent pictures of two patients via text message.

Investigators said Johnson used an iPhone 5 to photograph an incapacitated male patient's genitals.

She was originally charged with two counts of second-degree unlawful surveillance and one count of second-degree disseminating unlawful surveillance.

Johnson surrendered her license to the state Education Department and did not contest a disciplinary charge of moral unfitness.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Similar story a couple of years ago when an Arizona surgeon snapped a photo of some guy's dick which was tattooed "POCKET ROCKET".

My first overseas job was in Peru. I got an anaerobic bacterial infection in the fold of skin where the leg joins the torso. I was in a clinic up in the Andes several times while the doctors figured out how to treat it. Obviously that mean laying on the examining table with my drawers around my knees. My Spanish was pretty bad at that time. I did notice that it seemed like several nurses came in and out. It dawned on me what was happening when the clinic secretary came in to be sure my name was spelled correctly. Nobody was going to miss a chance to see what a gringo looked like. I don't think other cultures have quite our sensibilities about these things.

[unencumbered (imported)]

Similar story a couple of years ago when an Arizona surgeon snapped a photo of some guy's dick which was tattooed "POCKET ROCKET".

I had several female nurses lift my blanket to check my bandaged incision for any bleeding while I was in post op recovery following my castration. One expressed her sympathy and encouragement to me that I would be OK.

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

I think it is just way too much for her to have to give up her nursing license over this. Maybe if the patient or "victim" suffered from the pic then some civil judgement would be in order, like maybe the guy was identified with the picture of his penis and humiliated by it, but the pic alone? No, I don't this it is right at all to bust someone so harshly for something like that. I also think that if this had been a MALE who took a pic of a female patient.... well a man would be sent to PRISON for this with a felony conviction - and that would also be horribly unjust.

[ballsrgone (imported)]

For most people if they are hospitalized for what ever reason they are at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and often incapable of fighting back due to illness, if someone who is a professional in caring for you takes a picture for their own sexual gratification or for the amusement of others they have crossed the line in the duty of care they are paid to provide, and quite rightly should be sacked so they cant do it again.

One of my fears for my future old age now I am castrated is I end up in a care home if I get something like dementia, and end up as a figure of fun for the staff, none of us know whats round the corner and we all want to be treated with some dignity especially if we cant fight back.

[Hash (imported)]

I think this man's penis/genitals was/is unusual or tattooed or maybe he had a body modification.

[Losethem (imported)]

Just wanted to know what others thought about this nurse who took pictures of an unconscious males penis, etc. and then sent them to colleagues. Was his penis different? Special? huge? or what reason did she do it? Was it funny to her? She lost her livelihood over something dumb.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nurse-who-p ... s-license/

She lost her license and livelihood over breaking a US federal law. A law that it's drilled into nurses, doctors, and other healthcare providers that you don't break upon penalty of job loss and losing your profes

sional license (I hold a professional license myself).

I think it is just way too much for her to have to give up her nursing license over this. Maybe if the patient or "victim" suffered from the pic then some civil judgement would be in order, like maybe the guy was identified with the picture of his penis and humiliated by it, but the pic alone? No, I don't this it is right at all to bust someone so harshly for something like that. I also think that if this had been a MALE who took a pic of a female patient.... well a man would be sent to PRISON for this with a fel

ony conviction - and that would also be horribly unjust.

See above. The law she broke was the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly called HIPAA. It sounds like hippo but with an "A" sound on the end. Passed by the US Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. She violated the patient privacy protection clause in Title II of the law. Ergo, she got fired and lost her license. She could theoretically go to jail over doing this, though I don't believe anyone has ever been sentenced to jail for breaking that law.

So when someone says that this is overboard, I disagree. Bitch got what she deserved for taking advantage of a helpless person who trusted her with their care. End of story.

--LT

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

She lost her license and livelihood over breaking a US federal law. A law that it's drilled into nurses, doctors, and other healthcare providers that you don't break upon penalty of job loss and losing your profes

sional license (I hold a professional license myself).

See above. The law she broke was the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly called HIPAA. It sounds like hippo but with an "A" sound on the end. Passed by the US Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. She violated the patient privacy protection clause in Title II of the law. Ergo, she got fired and lost her license. She could theoretically go to jail over doing this, though I don't believe anyone has ever been sentenced to jail for breaking that law.

So when someone says that this is overboard, I disagree. Bitch got what she deserved for taking advantage of a helpless person who trusted her with their care. End of story.

--LT

Losethem is so right! Patient privacy so important .

[_g (imported)]

Losethem is so right! Patient privacy so important .

I also agree with Losethem, She has to take responsibility for her actions.

[T van Keel]

I also agree with Losethem. One's genitals are an absolute private matter and no one has to take photos of them. It's a disgusting act of disrespect.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

When I was hospitalized after castration (long, irrelevant story) I was amused by the seemingly constant parade of nurses, students and assorted technicians that were so concerned with my well being that they all had to have a look just to be sure I was doing well. These observers were all female. I understand how the news spreads in a close professional environment and I understand curiosity, everyone was as respectful as I would expect. No one took pictures and I am positive that if I had objected it would have ended. --FLO--

[Paolo]

Thought you said they tried, but the cameras all broke?

[Losethem (imported)]

No, he was more afraid his cock would be smiling and happier than he was, for any camera present.

[Atreyu69 (imported)]

My rule is very simple. If you can't do "it" with a consenting adult do "it" in fantasy. Kinky ideas about being the "naughty nurse" or "slave owner" can be safely indulged in as daydreams. Or better yet explore your ideas by writing about them. Writing is a great release. But when you take stuff like that into real life you're just asking for trouble.

[ballsrgone (imported)]

When I was hospitalized after castration (long, irrelevant story) I was amused by the seemingly constant parade of nurses, students and assorted technicians that were so concerned with my well being that they all had to have a look just to be sure I was doing well. These observers were all female. I understand how the news spreads in a close professional environment and I understand curiosity, everyone was as respectful as I would expect. No one took pictures and I am positive that if I had objected it would have ended. --FLO--

Funny how things are different in different places, like you I was kept in hospital after my castration due to infection here in London, I was in a general male ward, every morning the nursing staff at change over were taken bed to bed and told what was wrong with the patient and what was happening that day or what happened during the night, when it came to my bed I was skipped completely and they went to the next. The only nursing staff who looked at my site of infection (scrotum) were the ward Sister a tiny woman from the Philippines, the night Sister from Ghana a very large woman, who both ran the ward like clock work and were not to be messed with, and both were very protective of me, and then the Consultant, I even was allowed my curtain to be pulled in the daytime to screen me off from the other patients, the only one allowed to do so.

All the others new what I was in for but nobody else was allowed to look, the young nursing staff, especially the males couldn't even look me in the eye, all were very sweet to me though and I new all were well aware why I was there but nobody mentioned it to me, maybe they were afraid I would break down at the mention of it, they all couldn't have been nicer to me though, even when I was able to walk to the shower but walked like John Wayne nobody laughed.

[Dave (imported)]

This woman violated a patient's right to privacy and the law on the subject by taking the pictures. That much is obviously true.

The next thing that is obviously true is that having done something wrong, she compounded it by showing the photos to others outside the hospital. And for that she was punished.

I've been in hospitals enough in my life to know that this was all about privacy.

[Losethem (imported)]

My rule is very simple. If you can't do "it" with a consenting adult do "it" in fantasy. Kinky ideas about being the "naughty nurse" or "slave owner" can be safely indulged in as daydreams. Or better yet explore your ideas by writing about them. Writing is a great release. But when you take stuff like that into real life you're just asking for trouble.

Considering how tremendously busy nurses are, I doubt this is what was going through her mind when she took the photo. I'm guessing there was something very bizarre about his particular anatomy (maybe he's one of us, tattoos, something else). I think the likelihood of this being done to indulge her own fantasy is low. I think this was more a situation of the concept of Facebook and Instagram run amok.

[Paolo]

Oh, LT, please come here and whip these nursing classes into shape. They scare me. We did their photos. They can't read, they can't write, they can't follow simple instructions...

God, I wonder how many people they'll kill on their first day on the job?

[Losethem (imported)]

Oh, LT, please come here and whip these nursing classes into shape. They scare me. We did their photos. They can't read, they can't write, they can't follow simple instructions...

God, I wonder how many people they'll kill on their first day on the job?

The nurses or the entire millenial generation?

This lack of education and seeming desire to see how little knowledge we can bestow on those coming after us, this dismissal of science, the feeling whatever Kardashian has flashed their twat at us today being more newsworthy than why the rest of the world would like to kill us, has me ready to jump ship and move to another country.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a silly movie not a documentary.

--LT

[fhunter]

has me ready to jump ship and move to another country.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a silly movie not a documentary.

--LT

Colonize Mars. There is little hope for Earth. "Give me another globe" and all that.

PS. I am, probably, too cynical.

[_g (imported)]

The nurses or the entire millenial generation?

This lack of education and seeming desire to see how little knowledge we can bestow on those coming after us, this dismissal of science, the feeling whatever Kardashian has flashed their twat at us today being more newsworthy than why the rest of the world would like to kill us, has me ready to jump ship and move to another country.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a silly movie not a documentary.

--LT

Oh we can't hurt the student's feelings by giving grade, Oh we can't hold the child back a grade because the other kids will call them dummies! Oh we can't hold them responsible for there actions its ____'s fault! So lack of education and thievery is a problem now. I had to got to the big box to get a shut of value and they were locked up!

[Paolo]

I'd be surprised if any of these idiots graduating now even know what genitals look like...

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

Colonize Mars. There is little hope for Earth. "Give me another globe" and all that.

PS. I am, probably, too cynical.

No, cynical is knowing that we'd screw Mars up, too.

Sandi

[Losethem (imported)]

There is a reason I'm giving serious consideration to leaving the United States. Contrary to what many folks who have always lived here but never traveled abroad think, it isn't the greatest country on Earth. There are other options, and with my second citizenship, I have plenty of good alternatives without need for a visa.

I'm about to the point of seeking asylum from idiots.

--LT

[micdavi24 (imported)]

There is a reason I'm giving serious consideration to leaving the United States. Contrary to what many folks who have always lived here but never traveled abroad think, it isn't the greatest country on Earth. There are other options, and with my second citizenship, I have plenty of good alternatives without need for a visa.

I'm about to the point of seeking asylum from idiots.

--LT

I guess your second citizenship is somewhere in the EU. Given what is going on there, you may want to give that place a miss. Why not try Australia or NZ, both are great places. One definite to cross off your list is South Africa.