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]

And as almost no-one has said, though I don't like people saying "I'm not offended but someone might me" I can totally understand how a 70+ year old housebound person might use that form of words out of fear of being too much trouble or causing offence.

I agree. I think the other point to make is that - in the Telegraph article which is the only place I saw that quote - it's very unclear to me what the context was. It could have been the form of words she used when talking to the other care worker, but as it comes in a section where she's talking about feeling dismissal being OTT, it could also be her trying to see the PCT's point of view. As in 'I think dismissal's a but harsh, but I suppose the PCT needs to protect people who would be offended, even though I wasn't'. That's actually how I read it, but I'm not claiming that as the only possible reading, nor even the only likely one.

As I said above, I feel I know too little about this case to be sure what my view is. I can only say 'If it was situation X (and I don't know that it was) I think Y' - that, of course, still leaves plenty of room for legitimate discussion.