Nurse having personal relationship with patient

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My friend being a quad and having a HH nurse is also having a personal relationship with her when shes off the clock. Can that get her in trouble??

I used to work on a floor where patients would stay for months at a time. One nurse married an ex-patient, and one is about to. When they realized the relationship was going beyond the boundaries of a nurse-patient relationship, they requested to stop being assigned to that patient. Then they "got the relationship started" after the patient left the hospital. I think they acted professionally, since once the romantic relationship starting forming, they cut the professional relationship. I think if by "personal relationship" you mean romance, then the professional relationship should stop and the personal relationship should start. If you mean a friendship, I certainly think you can be friends with your patient, as long as it doesn't interfere with your nursing tasks.

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Too many become attracted to their nurse/doctor because of the care they are receiving. The equate care into love. This nurse needs think what she started. It's wrong.

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Too many become attracted to their nurse/doctor because of the care they are receiving. The equate care into love. This nurse needs think what she started. It's wrong.

well what if the nurse fell for the patient first?

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
well what if the nurse fell for the patient first?

STILL wrong.

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Specializes in CCRN, TNCC SRNA.

I didnt think that was allowed. Isnt that a conflict of interests when that line is crossed?

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The patient must have given some signals to make the nurse interested. They both must be desperate.

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Specializes in OB/GYN,L&D,FP office,LTC.

In my state a nurse can lose her license for this.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
I am a parapaligic...and I have been a few relationships with some of my nurses and I thought nothing with it....jb

It's not you that has the professional relationship with the obligate professional boundaries.

You are part of that relationship, but not the 'professional' part.

~faith,

Timothy.

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In my state, what I do with my time off the clock is my business.

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It is not illegal like a doctor/patient relationship. The ethics can be debated endlessly. In the end, each nurse has to make their own decision.

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The patient must have given some signals to make the nurse interested. They both must be desperate.

Heaven forbid they are just interested in being friends.

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IMO this is unethical and crosses the boundaries of a nurse-pt. relationship. The nurse is in a position of "power" by the virtue of who she is. Where I live she could be subject to discipline and/or loss of license.

If the nurse wanted to pursue this relationship, she should immediately cease to be that person's nurse. It doesn't matter who initiated the relationship.

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