They stopped by the nurse's station first to get permission.
Anybody in scrubs would not be wearing a photo-id badge, nor would a fake badge allow them onto the maternity ward. At least where I work, your badge must be visible.
The ER doctor has to work with those nurses and their associates at that hospital. I don't believe he chose friendship over employment when he stated that the nurses were the aggressors and that Kennedy was not violent toward anybody.
At least where I work, you prevent a kidnapping by calling security, describing the abductor, advising which stairway or elevator they're headed toward and issuing a code pink. You do NOT directly intervene, since you aren't specifically trained to safely apprehend child abductors and such people may be armed and dangerous. You allow security to greet said abductor at the elevator/stairwell doorway. The hospital will be in lockdown and the abductor will not leave the building.
From what I've read, I think the nurses were out of line and overreacted. But I work in a hospital and I know they make mistakes and can act like little gods and goddesses. 
And since they're the 99% and Kennedy is the 1% I guess around here he's guilty by association.
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