Episode 3: Sexual Assault. Who Do You Believe?

  Case Study: A woman presents to the hospital with a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Simply put a vessel in her head started leaking blood, likely from a ruptured aneurysm. This lady is rushed to interventional radiology (IR) to have a procedure known as a coiling performed that will stop the bleeding in her head. In order to perform the procedure a neurosurgeon must go in through the artery in her groin in order to reach the aneurysm in her brain. Once the procedure is successfully complete a nurse in the IR must hold pressure at the groin site up to 10 minutes so the patient does not "bleed out" and die. Once the patient is transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) and the patient is alone with her new nurse, she discloses that while the nurse in IR was holding pressure, he sexually assaulted her. David, a Neurological Intensive Care Unit nurse joins the show to express the routes that should be taken and helps expose common mentalities throughout coworkers and what to do with the doubt that arises when others blow off the patient's recollection of the assault. Ultimately, what would you do if this woman was your mother, sister, or wife? What would you do if you overheard the staff calling your loved one a liar and crazy? If after the investigation they determined the nurse was innocent?