Facebook photo op with placenta gets nursing student booted from JCCC

Doyle Byrnes, a nursing student at Johnson County Community College since 2006, was recently dismissed from the program after she and three other students took photos with a placenta they were examining during a lab at Olathe Medical Center.

The anatomical, but incorrect, photo op took place November 10, 2010, under the watch of JCCC clinical instructor Amber Delphia. When the students told Delphia that they wanted to take pictures with the placenta and share them via social networking sites, the instructor merely responded, “Oh, you girls,” according to a court petition filed by Byrnes.

That evening, Delphia called Byrnes and told her to take the placenta photo off Facebook immediately, which Byrnes did. “Am I in trouble?” Byrnes asked the instructor. “No,” Delphia allegedly responded.