mycrofft
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Jail medical services are designed to do two things:
1. Let the arrestee and incarceree leave in as good or better shape than they came in ("better" being due to basic care for medical conditions needing immediate attention, or detox and food).
2. Meet emerging conditions so item 1 above is met.
They are not designed to act as a receiving station for arrestees in acute severe detox, needing treatment for facial fractures and other serious injuries secondary to their crime or their arrest, in childbirth, etc.
Drunk...sure. Pregnant (and pregnancy is tested for)....sure, at least until it is determined to be a risky pregnancy and the charges are minor. Stabilized at the hospital and not requiring care beyond what the jail can reasonably offer....ok.
Arresting officers don't want to waste their time in emergency rooms, but that's how it is. If they want to ask you if the jail nurses will accept a given patient, then it's between you and the arresting officer, but your safest answer is "no"; once you say they will, and they won't, then the officer will think you are as "useless" as the nurses (when it comes to dropping a sick or injured person at an inappropriate treatment facility).
All the time, transporting or arresting officers will try to fob off inappropriate patients on jail intake screeners to save time; don't get caught in that. If the pt goes sour, you will be involved.
1. Let the arrestee and incarceree leave in as good or better shape than they came in ("better" being due to basic care for medical conditions needing immediate attention, or detox and food).
2. Meet emerging conditions so item 1 above is met.
They are not designed to act as a receiving station for arrestees in acute severe detox, needing treatment for facial fractures and other serious injuries secondary to their crime or their arrest, in childbirth, etc.
Drunk...sure. Pregnant (and pregnancy is tested for)....sure, at least until it is determined to be a risky pregnancy and the charges are minor. Stabilized at the hospital and not requiring care beyond what the jail can reasonably offer....ok.
Arresting officers don't want to waste their time in emergency rooms, but that's how it is. If they want to ask you if the jail nurses will accept a given patient, then it's between you and the arresting officer, but your safest answer is "no"; once you say they will, and they won't, then the officer will think you are as "useless" as the nurses (when it comes to dropping a sick or injured person at an inappropriate treatment facility).
All the time, transporting or arresting officers will try to fob off inappropriate patients on jail intake screeners to save time; don't get caught in that. If the pt goes sour, you will be involved.