Praying nurses

[ciphergoth]

Nurse suspended without pay for offering to pray for a patient during a home visit - what do you think?

(Snowed in today, trying to work from home but it's not really a workplace atmosphere around here today :-)

Updated: the patient is described as a Christian in the article. One wonders if this means Christian as in really a Christian, or "Christian I suppose" which AFAICT is the majority religion of the UK. Updated: actually "have Christian beliefs myself" is more like the phrasing I'd expect from someone who takes it seriously.

Comments

[redcountess]

The patient doesn't want the nurse to get the sack, but I do think there should be some sort of disciplinary hearing, especially if this is not the first time she's done this (as suggested in an earlier comment). If the nurse feels so strongly about her faith she should take orders (to be a nun) - there are plenty of orders that still nurse.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Go from offering to pray straight to being a nun? That's a mighty jump.

I think that offering to pray for someone isn't of itself offensive, just possibly open to misinterpretation. The thing is, you don't NEED to tell someone you will pray for them, you can just go home and do it, thus not risking anyone being offended. I find it strange that she felt the need to ask when she could just go and add them to her prayer list.

[redcountess]

True, but I meant if she feels compelled to do god's work in her nursing.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

She's a Baptist. I don't think Baptists have nuns.