Nurses dating Doctors??

[Rn2bKatie]

i have heard the hospital I work for is instituting a specific no tolerance policy for nurses dating doctors within the same departments etc. Im just wondering if there are other policies like this in other hospitals specifically aimed at nurses and MDs? I havent seen this in writing yet but I personally feel the policy should include every employee? Anyone heard of this?

[Rn2bKatie]

I'd sort of care if it were being done in the janitor's closet (yeah, that was the latest rumor at work over a certain doc's resignation, that one of the ER docs and one of the ER's PCTs were, uh, getting together in a janitor's closet, and got caught when someone went there to get a mop for puke).

That I would care about! Its amazing the things that people will do just to get lucky! I personally find it much more appealing to refrain from the urges of public lovin, but to each their own!!

[babiesX2]

There is a nurse and MD who dated, got engaged, then married. The nurse used to be a staff RN. Now she is a charge. She refers to her MD husband by his 1st name. I find this to be very unprofessional. I've known quite a few nurses married to MD's, and they all referred to them as Dr. Last Name while in a professional setting. I was pulled to this MD's wife's unit one day while she was charging. I admitted a pt from ER and her husband was ER unassigned admit MD. She dug around in the computer and got info on this pt and found that he had been admitted like 60 days ago. She calls "Bill" on a private cell phone # that only she has access to. She tells him that this pt should have been assigned to another MD according to a "90 day bounce back rule" that no one but this MD and his nurse wife have heard of. Husband MD calls me on another line telling me to call the MD pt should have been admitted to. Long story, but bottom line, this "privileged" relationship made a big mess for me to clean up.

Moral of my post: I would very much enjoy it if my hospital instituted a policy making it uncomfortable for nurses to date MD's.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

We have a nurse that's married to one of the retired surgeons, and she refers to all of the current surgeons by their first names at work. Really, i don't think it's right either, she's actually the only one nurse that does that, and i think it's because of who she's married to.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

That I would care about! Its amazing the things that people will do just to get lucky! I personally find it much more appealing to refrain from the urges of public lovin, but to each their own!!

First thing i thought of was germs. I mean someone found them because they went in the closet for a mop to sop up puke, and that mop would probably get put back in that closet.

[babiesX2]

We have a nurse that's married to one of the retired surgeons, and she refers to all of the current surgeons by their first names at work. Really, i don't think it's right either, she's actually the only one nurse that does that, and i think it's because of who she's married to.

I think it is downright unprofessional. I think at the OP's facility the reason nurses would be the ones punished is because it is nurses who abuse the "privilige" of these personal relationships by conducting themselves unprofessionally.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

I think it is downright unprofessional. I think at the OP's facility the reason nurses would be the ones punished is because it is nurses who abuse the "privilige" of these personal relationships by conducting themselves unprofessionally.

But the doctors wouldn't be conducting themselves unprofiessionally there, though?

So why wouldn't they be punished?

If they don't get some sort of reprimand, that's like saying acting like a stud dog at work is OK.

[babiesX2]

But the doctors wouldn't be conducting themselves unprofiessionally there, though?

So why wouldn't they be punished?

If they don't get some sort of reprimand, that's like saying acting like a stud dog at work is OK.

MarieLPN, I was agreeing with your post. I guess I was writing in a hurry and it didn't come out that way, but I truly was agreeing with you.

True, the frollicking in housekeeping closets, empty rooms, PDA's in the nurse's station or anywhere on hospital property, etc. is also unprofessional. Common sense would dictate that the punishment should fit the crime. Recently, we had an MD come into the nurse's station on rounds and he proceeded to pinch nurses on the behinds and attempt to kiss a nurse. He was promptly escorted off hospital property by security! (BTW, his wife was a nurse manager at my hospital and I never saw anything unprofessional betweeen the two of them.) I do know a male nurse married to a female MD. I know several male and female MD's married to one another, they still call each other Dr. Last Name and Dr. Maiden Last Name with the exception of one couple who share a last name. I know the ex-wife of a surgeon, and when she talks about him to me she calls him Dr. Last Name. No PDA's or using MD's first name go on between any of these MD couples or non-traditonal male nurse/female MD relationships. It only seems to occur in the traditional female nurse/male MD relationship. It is in these traditional relationships that the professional lines at work seem to become blurred.

OK, I'll get under my chair and be quiet now. :chair:

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

MarieLPN, I was agreeing with your post. I guess I was writing in a hurry and it didn't come out that way, but I truly was agreeing with you.

Oh, i understood that, i'm just saying that if the OP's facility sees is as the nurses' fault only, then that's like giving the OK for docs to continue with their behavior.

[WOLFE, BSN, RN]

Personally I don't care who you date or anything else...as long as everyone remains professional while on the job...and that includes all jobs not just nursing. I have seen a few couples of nurse/doc pa's/nurse doc/doc etc...some are professional and some are not. I find that when the couples are not professional on the job, they soon earn a lack of respect from all coworkers. Where I work I have never heard of such a policy.

[kersti]

I keep my personal life out of the work place and wish others would do the same. Nurses and docs ...who cares as long as they keep it private and/or doesn't interfere with their work. Frankly, I don't care to know who is dating who, who is cheating on who etc.

:yeahthat: couldn't agree more.....

[RENAISSANCE RN]

:cheers: geez, there would be no soap operas without it.............

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

What other people do in their private lives, or even if they make it public, or even if people are gossiping about them doing it in the closet does affect me and my patient care whatsoever. I do wish people would keep their private life private and keep their professional life professional.

I don't think it's the hospital's place to tell who can date who. I think it infringes on our personal freedoms. Other places and the Army have such rules, it's not exclusive to nurses and doctors, but like others I'm concerned that doctors aren't going to feel any disciplinary action if caught, it will be staff.