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

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I don't think we have nearly enough information to come to judgement about this specific instance. All of the information about what happened comes from the nurse; the statement from the employer is carefully evasive about the specifics.

It would certainly seem like an over-reaction if the nurse's account is accurate and there's no previous. If she was more upfront about it than she's making out, and this was far from the first complaint, and she'd been warned about this formally ... then it would seem entirely appropriate.

We don't know any of that.

(Some reports say that she does have previous, but from years and years ago. Again, if she's not put a foot wrong between then and now: over-reaction. If she'd been causing trouble on this matter continually since then: entirely appropriate.)

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

(Just been reading more reports: blimey, there seems to be a range of accounts here. Was the previous 'in October' or 1985?! (October 1999?) Coming round to thinking employer's action was probably reasonable, but the diversity in the reports worries me that we're not getting a full picture. Though my strong suspicions are not to be too concerned that a great injustice has taken place.)