Nurse suspended for offering to pray for patient
source: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/02/nurse-suspended-for-offering-to-pray.html
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There was no compulsion, no oppression, no tract warning of hell and damnation, and no trite equation of the patient’s illness with sin. It was not even necessarily an offer to pray there and then in the presence of the patient, but an expression of generous Christian concern that the patient might be prayed for when the nurse was on her knees at home or in church, in her own time.Yet Nurse Caroline Petrie has been suspended by her employer – North Somerset Primary Care Trust – for failing to demonstrate a ‘personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity’.
Did Nurse Petrie specify that she would be praying to Jehovah in the name of Jesus? Did she state that she would be genuflecting to Allah, waving to Waheguru, chanting to Krishna or spinning her prayer wheel to some divinity who may or may not be omnipotent, omniscient or omnipresent? Did she single out this one patient for discriminatory persecution because of her skin colour, sexuality or creed?
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lj111
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i agree wholly with you, sexirobot. if the patient needed solace and asked the nurse for help to face his maker, then right on sister.
- 4 years ago
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lj111
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Sexirobot
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if the patient asked for a prayer then its no big deal but if she just broke into a prayer after serving juice then its a different story. I wounder what the reaction would've been if the nurse had been Muslim.
- 4 years ago
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Sexirobot
