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

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Not so.

Would you like me to pray for you?
No, thank you dear.
Fair enough.

I cannot see what is so awful about that, I really can't. We're turning into a nation of "It might OFFEND someone! Aaiiee!" people.

It's not like she held her down and tried to exorcise her.

Plus just because someone complains, does not always mean that YOU have got it wrong.

[palmer1984.livejournal.com]

I also think that people get offended too easily. I think CHristians who get offended by Dawkins are being a bit silly.

But in this case there was a power relationship between the nurse and the elderly patient. This is what makes it innapropriate, I think.

[cillygirl.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

To me it is the power relationship that makes it not ok. Particularly with an elderly patient, but any patient can be at a disadvantage.

In that situation I can see me being silent or distracted, and later feeling that I wish I had disagreed. I might actually get quite freaked out about being in the power of religious people who might disapprove of me, if I was feeling particularly vulnerable.