What is your protocol on intoxicated patients and their ability to sign a refusal. Apparently our policy is "it depends." I need more than that. Someone enlighten me please?!
It depends on how intoxicated the patient appears to be and how injured they are. A lot of times I will have the police officer sign the refusal for the patient if they think the patient is okay to go with them otherwise I really try to talk the patient into going. Then again some patients seem to think if they go with us they won't get arrested for drunk driving (too bad it never works out!) We don't have a set policy, though, and we probably should
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It depends on how intoxicated the patient appears to be and how injured they are. A lot of times I will have the police officer sign the refusal for the patient if they think the patient is okay to go with them otherwise I really try to talk the patient into going. Then again some patients seem to think if they go with us they won't get arrested for drunk driving (too bad it never works out!) We don't have a set policy, though, and we probably should
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