Dating someone from within ???

[johnny depp23]

Just curious if anybody has dated a co-worker or known someone who has? I have been hearing on here that many nurses are dating the doctors, patients, etc... I'm not an RN yet, but can't you be fired for this kind of behavior?

Please don't leave negative comments. I'm just asking a serious question, so don't go gettin all dirty hairy on me.:

[Cthulhu]

As a male (and married) nurse there are two rules I live by:

1. Confucius said: "A woman's body is like the sun, you are supposed to glance at it, not stare at it."

2. Confucius said: "Never dip your pen in the company ink."

[whodatnurse]

As a male (and married) nurse there are two rules I live by:

1. Confucius said: "A woman's body is like the sun, you are supposed to glance at it, not stare at it."

2. Confucius said: "Never dip your pen in the company ink."

Years ago while I was putting myself through grad school I worked as a cocktail waitress in a bar. We had an employee manual that summed up the 'no hanky-panky rule' as follows:

"Keep your wick out of the company kerosene."

Don't think that one goes back all the way to Confucius...just one wild-and-crazy bar owner...

[prospect]

I've dated in the workplace often, before I became a nurse. Its complicated, and it becomes way more complicated if it doesn't work out between you. If you are far enough away that you don't have to deal with eachother if the situation goes south its not bad, but when you have to see that person all the time when they screwed you over and broke your heart... very tough.

All that said, the heart wants what the heart wants, and I've found not following my heart to be a very bad idea. You don't want to wake up 10 years from now and think "what if..." There will always be another job, there will not always be another "the one"

"So... Your resume says that you haven't worked in six months. And your last position was at Midtown Hospital... So why did you leave there?"

"Well, I got fired on the same day that my colleague Joe Smith filed a lawsuit for sexual harassment. You might have read it in the newspaper, or could find it in an Internet search when background-checking job applicants. But I followed my heart! And I though he was THE ONE! You know.. until the lawsuit... And, I really need another job now, to pay the rent..."

"Thank you for applying. We will call you if we want another interview... Don't let the door hit you in the orifice on the way out..."

[grammy57]

I just heard about a DON being fired for dating a co-worker. Against company policy. Know the rules first.

[Libby1987]

It wasn't until I read the last post that I remembered that I have a dated a coworker. Both in our 20's, I was a new nurse and he was a new PT. He was so cute and there was an older nurse who played match maker. We had zero in common, but he was so cute.. It was a non issue when we stopped dating, it was a large hospital, it was the 80's..

[~PedsRN~, BSN, RN]

I'll tell you this - I know lots of doctors who are married to nurses. Nurses who are married to RTs..... :lol: It's very incestuous, the hospital. I think it's because you really do spend so much time there.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

I met my hubby at work and have been married for 25 years :) We occasionally worked together, no problem.

[NurseOnAMotorcycle, ASN, RN]

There's something to be said for somebody who understands what you're talking about from work, however, don't forget that working at a hospital is also a family institution.

What I mean by that is that a lot of times nurses who work at a hospital are there because they saw that it was a viable option because their mother, brother, aunt , etc works at the hospital and are more likely than lay people to see it as a viable option. Where I work (a 700 bed hospital) a surprising number of employees also have family members that work in the same hospital.

You may step into a minefield if you date and break up with someone with previously unknown connections.