Hospital Romances

diane227, LPN, RN · Nov 23, 2009

I think it is a good rule not to date where you work but that being said it did not stop me when I was young. I was in my mid 20's when I graduated from nursing school. And all the hospitals where I worked were teaching hospitals so there were tons of single people to date and we all did our fair share and we had a great time. It is important to try to keep your private life to yourself however. You don't need to come to work and share the details of your love life with all your co-workers.

Blackheartednurse · Nov 23, 2009

I'm positive this phenomenon occurs in every profession.Nothing wrong with that as long as two people act mature and of course are single...

Missy121 · Nov 23, 2009

I never thought I would date someone where I work... However I met the perfect person there and we have many common interests. No one, except my close friends, even knew we were dating until about 6 months into our relationship people began to notice that we would have lunch together in the caefteria pretty regularly. We did not keep it a secret, however we never did anything inapropriate on hospital property. My manager knew and had no problem with it, and there has never been any gossip about us other than comments of how cute a couple we are! We've now been together about 2 years. I know of the gossip of interhospital romances of who is seeing who and some of them do get out of hand! It is definately unacceptable to be acting inapropriately in a workplace setting no matter where you work. As far as going out to the bars.. it happens, some of us would go out on a weekend off for a get together, and my first 2 room mates worked with me on the same floor, and my current one is the guy I met at work!

dansamy · Nov 23, 2009

Yup, we throw wild orgy parties at least once a month. :icon_roll

Virgo_RN, BSN, RN · Nov 23, 2009

Yup, we throw wild orgy parties at least once a month. :icon_roll

Well, we have naked pillow fights in the supply room at least once a week, so there!

2bnursejacksonrn · Nov 23, 2009

Hate to rain on the parade, but those shows do not reflect real nursing. In today's facespacetwitter world, I just want to keep my work and my personal life apart... I guess I am the minority.

That was kinda the point of the thread in the first place.

mige · Nov 23, 2009

those shows do not reflect real nursing. .

or real medicine, especially residency training. I dont have that much time at work to be talking to my fellow interns/residents about their personal problems and we dont hang out with the attendings.

shoegalRN, RN · Nov 23, 2009

I work in a teaching hospital and see alot of residents come and go due to their rotations. I will say there is this one ER doc that is very attractive, but when I'm around him, I keep it very professional. I've heard other nurses comment on how "fine" he is, but I don't say a word.

I will never date someone I work with, so that doc is off limits in my opinion. However, I do hang out with the RT guys outside of work, and we either do breakfast, or a bar on the weekends when we are not working. We hang out often.

I prefer to date outside of my place of employment.

Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN · Nov 23, 2009

I worked for 12 years at a smaller hospital that was also a teaching hospital. I mean small like 68 beds including ICU. The ER however, was exceptional. Our location was between 2 major interstates. Many of our docs taught at the best school for paramedics.

Because of the size It was a hot bed for workplace romances. Right off the top of my head I can think of 6 couples still together. Lots of doc-nurse ratios,tech-nurse tech-tech Doc-doc even Doc-engineering. I I had to think I could come up with even more that didn't work out. We always went out for beers after a really bad day.

We also had a party once a year at a local lake for a weekend it was funded by the ER and a woman who collected all the soda cans and cashed in for all the food we bought. And a party at Christmas funded by all the Docs.

So Yes, there is always going to be hanky panky But this place was more like a small town and everyone knew your business.

JP2011 · Nov 23, 2009

I'm a PCA and Nursing student and I hang out with the MD's & RN's outside of work. We go to the bar in the morning after a long night, or grab breakfast on Sunday's when the bar is closed. (Labor & Delivery will make you a morning drinker) But I have friends who are nurses who have slept/dated with an MD. And MD's who have dated multiple MD's and Nurses. On our floor all the nurses are female, the MD's are mixed. And I'm the one lone guy on the unit. We have anesthesia residents (usually all guys) and OB/GYN residents which is a mixed bag of males and females. One of my friends has been dating a MD secretly for a year now, while another her relationship didn't work out. I think as long as dating/socializing doesn't affect your job title, why should anyone care?

Olamide · Apr 9, 2013

I met my husband during my student nurse posting, he was a medical officer at ER. Most part of our relationship was outside the hospital, but in the hospital we are like total strangers. Now that we are married we work in different hospitals in different towns so no stealing kisses or hugs or ass smacking till we meet at home

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Apr 9, 2013

I read the first post in this thread and thought it was a joke. Sadly, it appears it isn't! And this came to life after being buried for 3.5 years...??

Yes, Virginia, hospitals are just like they are on TV. Nurses shoot up before seeing patients, doctors actually sit at patients' bedsides, and the staff are all tongue-wrangling during all that downtime between clock-in and clock-out. In fact, each of your student colleagues can expect to meet up with their very own McDreamy the moment they hit the floor....after all, it's not like they're going to be too busy, right?

I'm guessing nursing school allowed some students WAY too much free time if this was an area of actual consideration!