Becoming personally or intimately involved with patients or not?

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Hello, I am trying to obtain opinions on how people or nurses feel about other nurses becoming personally or intimately involved with their patients. I am open to all opinions so please let me know what you think. I would appreciate if you provide reasons or experiences as to why you have these opinions. Thank you for your time........

Specializes in Trauma/ED.
I think involvement with a psych pt is an obvious no-no

I think that is interesting because how many psych pt's are on medical floors...answer A LOT! If that is going to be your rule of thumb I would do some heavy research to figure out what kind of patient your dealing with. Besides psych patients aren't necessarily more dangerous--stigma.

Admitedly I come from a psych background but I don't care what kind of patient you are I'm not going to get personally involved with you. I will be very compassionate and very personable but I have very strong boundaries.

No offense just my opinion.

Larry

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So if you are working in the PACU, ambulatory surgery, doctor's office etc. and you meet a pt or pts family member as you are caring for someone for however many hours it would be just unbelievably horrible to you if someone happened to form a relationship that they wanted to pursue once the care was terminated? I'm taken and not interested in any pts ---psych or not but I really wouldn't judge someone who never made it a habit but did one time meet someone they were interested in. I went to a wedding last year where the bride married her dentist --it happens and life goes on happily for both of them

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Thanks for the links of other discussions regarding this topic, those discussions present a mixed view of opinions. It's interesting how students hold themselves to a higher standard based on the responses above, maybe the strict learning mode and black and white exams put us at a heightened level of professionalism.

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