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

[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.