Becoming personally or intimately involved with patients or not? - page 2

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

If you are like me, and have this topic for a school assignment, I'd like to share links within this site that touch on the same or similar info:



https://allnurses.com/forums/showthr...onship+patient



https://allnurses.com/forums/showthr...onship+patient



https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68579

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthr...nal+boundaries

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthr...nal+boundaries

this last one is very extensive. Hope this helps and saves some time

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.