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

[djm4]

Would you feel the same way about someone who complained because the nurse hadn't offered to pray for them? (Note - I'm not saying this is exactly equivalent, just trying to gauge boundaries.)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

No, not at all - if you do it by the book and they complain, you can say, I did it by the book. If you do exactly what the book forbids, you'd better be right about them welcoming it.

[djm4]

Ah yes, that makes sense, thanks.