Yikes, destroy their career?
My only reason for pause is I know the culture of these departments, and how a Captain can make a terrible decision for the entire engine/RA.
Yes, these two should be expelled from both public safety and healthcare, for failure to do their job. and even worse, a cop had to do their job for them!
If the investigation shows that the Captain was the one who directly told the RA crew not to enter a SNF during a cardiac arrest too, give him or her the boot too!
here is why:
1) they willfully refused to do their job.
1a) if they were that scared of covid, they could have put on tyvex suits, n95s, surgical masks, safety glasses, and helmets, and they would have been protected from all the cooties.
1b) I think that level of PPE is overkill in todays age, but that's worse case scenario, and was an option they could take.
1c) if it's a non-critical patient, and the staff can bring them outside, awesome. it can even be encouraged... a cardiac arrest is not one of those cases. go in side, and do your job to help the tax payer who is paying your salary.
2) there is no law. if anything, it might be a recommendation from someone, but no actual law. So claiming a law when no law actually exists means you don't know the rules and regulations well enough for your to do your job.
3) If the engine was there too, and the captain said they weren't going in, than he should take the blame, be expelled, etc. and they should just be suspended for failure to do their job.
4) Many of my former coworkers were going into NJ nursing homes last year when COVID was running rampant, dealing with multiple cardiac arrests a day. No vaccine, limited/reusing PPE, n95s in short supply... Now we know a lot more, have the opportunity to be vaccinated, and these two embarrassments still refused to go inside do their job on a person in cardiac arrest.
That's a cardinal sin in my book, and ending their career is appropriate.