Thanks to News From Unscheduled Care for pointing out this news story.
Almost one in 10 nurses think starting a relationship with one of their patients is acceptable while one in six said they knew of a colleague who had a sexual relationship with a patient they were looking after.
The findings, published by the Nursing Times, will add weight to the controversial remarks by Conservative peer Lord Mancroft that nurses are “promiscuous” and “unprofessional”.
Almost one in 10 nursees think it’s okay to sleep with your patient? Of course, another way of putting this is that over 90% think it’s not acceptable. Still, all this talk of promiscuity and torrid affairs is leaving me with one burning question.
WHICH ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS GETTING MY SHARE?????????
7 comments
March 8, 2008 at 8:12 pm
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March 2, 2008 at 10:49 pm
TheShrink
See, see what happens when Her Majesty’s Government causes us to have a shortage of junior doctors!
March 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
faithwalker
haha- that might have been me.
My last two boyfriends have been junior doctors.
Never slept with a patient though.
March 5, 2008 at 7:09 pm
TheShrink
Whilst rummaging around at WardBunny’s I found the link to this. So that is what nurses are thought to look like? We clearly employ quite the wrong sort of nurse.
March 8, 2008 at 7:50 am
nephron
I suspect the problem is that Lord Mancroft has been watching such esteemed documentaries as “The Hot Nurse”, “Nurse Zhivago”, and “Latex Nurses”.
He has seen through our coy ruse.
March 10, 2008 at 9:21 am
OFMN
Oh yes. I completely forgot that honourable members of the House of Commons and the Lords of the House of Lords never get caught dipping their pens in the company ink.
Can anyone say “Do as I say not as I do”?
Hoho.
March 10, 2008 at 5:42 pm
zarathustra
Ahhh, but David Mellor did perform a valuable morale-boosting service back in the 90s, by making millions of us think, “Well, if *he* can get laid…”