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

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I agree - she shoudln't have done it and as the patient says in that article, an offer of prayer could be interpreted as the patient being in a very bad way. But suspension sounds most excessive for a first time.

The thing with 'I'll pray for you' is there's no polite way to disagree - "I'd really rather you didn't" doesn't go down well.

At least things have improved in the NHS - when I was born my mother was explicitly told that if I wasn't baptised I wouldn't live through the night. For years she wanted to take me back to the hospital and do "ner ner na ner ner" - but then my parents did eventually decide to name me after the guardian angel while hoping for the best...