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

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/02/nurse-prayer-suspended refers to a previous similar incident: Petrie said she had been reprimanded over her faith before, in October, when she gave a homemade prayer card to an elderly patient. She said: "He was delighted with it, but his carer was not."

I think that suspension without pay still seems excessive. But can't she just pray to get her job back?

[prolificdiarist.livejournal.com]

I think that suspension without pay still seems excessive. But can't she just pray to get her job back?

Hahaha, brilliant :)

Kx