Hospital Won't Hire Obese Workers

[chevyv]

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-health-resources/health-reform-and-texas/victoria-hospital-wont-hire-very-obese-workers/

I'm not sure this link will take you to the article, but I read it this morning and couldn't believe my eyes! Seems a few lawsuits will be coming their way along with the race discrimination one in place already. What do you all think about it?

[kcmylorn]

osborncs- I like what you posted. I was just think that myself. I would rather have an overweight nice nurse who I can right away see would understand me than a skinny one expounding on something they have no clue about. And like you, I have worked with some overweight nurses in my day- an boy they sure were not lazy and they did know their stuff- ICU/CCU

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

When I was in nursing school, we were expected to set an example in what we did and how we looked. If we happened to go to the beach in the 15 minutes we had off and got sunburned, we weren't allowed to go to clinical.I've had both nurses and doctors who were seriously over weight. One of them was so short of breath just from walking across the room, I thought I was, as the patient, going to have to call a code blue.

[LinaE]

Greetings everyone.

"A Victoria hospital already embroiled in a discrimination lawsuit filed by doctors of Indian descent has instituted a highly unusual hiring policy: It bans job applicants from employment for being too overweight".

I like the idea.

Obese people need medical intervention. How can obese nurses or staff help others if they can't even help themselves?

[chevyv, BSN, RN]

Really LinaE!!!??! What kind of medical intervention do we need? I could stand to lose 30 pounds and I run circles around people younger and thinner than myself.

Do you feel the same way about smokers, how much alcohol before we say addict, caffeine addicts? Just wondering what type of medical intervention those people need...

[spectrabrite, LVN]

@ notjustanurse

I am sorry if I am insulting you but the patients you are trying to educate on good health and nutrition, and other topics that closely relate to weight and good health just look at you and think, if she can't do it why should I even try.

Your a role model for health and wellness, its no wonder our country is obese.

[spectrabrite, LVN]

@ paddlelady

The school I went to didn't admit obese people either.

Why do you applaud the doctor for hiring these 2 obese women into an office where they are looked at as role models and educators of proper health?

[juzme]

A BMI of 35 is 100 pounds over your ideal weight for your height. The hospital is not talking about vanity pounds here.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

When my sister was about 6 years old, she was a little over weight. Our pediatrician told her she needed to fight the battle of the bulge. She poked HIS rather rotund abdomen and said "You should take your own advice."

[spectrabrite, LVN]

A lot of the local California hospitals have already instituted a policy baning staff from smoking and have hiring policies on smoking and firing based on smoking.

A medical professional that smokes looks bad in the patients eyes, the same way an obese medical professional would.

Really LinaE!!!??! What kind of medical intervention do we need? I could stand to lose 30 pounds and I run circles around people younger and thinner than myself.

Do you feel the same way about smokers, how much alcohol before we say addict, caffeine addicts? Just wondering what type of medical intervention those people need...

[spectrabrite, LVN]

Exactly! Why listen to advice on such topics from someone that can't take there own advice.

When my sister was about 6 years old, she was a little over weight. Our pediatrician told her she needed to fight the battle of the bulge. She poked HIS rather rotund abdomen and said "You should take your own advice."

[LinaE]

our body is our temple.

sometimes our body truly reflects the 'real condition' of what we are on the inside.

if a person is blessed with the ability of being and keeping healthy, what kind of personwould jeopardize their state of health by making the wrong choices and becoming obese? something negative must lie underneath it all. unless they can becomehealthy themselves, don't expect much.

[Vespertinas]

We're talking about making it okay to deny someone the right to earn a living for themselves and their family. While this debate is interesting in a vacuum, it shouldn't REALLY have room in determining something as fundamental as employment. The idea of nurses as role models is only implied, not stipulated in black-and-white in the Code of Ethics for Nurses or job descriptions.