The event that took place at Nightingale Memorial Hospital was child abduction. In this case the child was dropped off for an operating room procedure and the mother was told it should take approximately one hour and forty-five minutes. The mother instructed the pre-op nurse that she had an errand to run with her oldest child but would return before the surgery was completed. The mother gave the pre-op nurse her phone number to be reached if the surgery was quicker than expected. One Tina was finished with surgery and ready for discharge she was discharged to the care of her father. Tina’s mother returned to the hospital to pick her up to learn that she had already been discharged, the hospital then followed their child abduction procedures