anonymous88

There's no doubt the nurse met the mother through the patient. This nurse is very new and is from out of state, and had admitted to this being the first time they've met (extremely obscure, small, rural area in the first place). Also, the patient is a 10 year old girl. Not sure if that makes a difference because the whole thing would be weird either way, given that they've only known each other for such a short time.

Hello all.. I am a huge fan of Allnurses and I decided to make this account to ask for some opinions. Let me start off by saying I don't want any advice as I don't plan on being involved in the situation or anything like that. It's just something happening at work that I haven't seen before and everyone else on the floor (and others) thinks it's odd, too, but I'm so new to nursing that I don't have much to go on here so I just wanted to know what everyone else thought. There is a new male nurse at this facility that had the assignment of a young child (10 years old). This child's mother is a frequent flyer and staff knows her well. She is kind of odd herself, and is not mentally "all there", as we say. Anyway. Mom and daughter are discharged, only to come back two days later.. To visit this nurse, because he asked them to. He is interested in adopting this child. The mother is interested in giving him her child. Now, the information I have comes from the nurse himself, as he is open about the situation and is excited because he has tried in the past to adopt but has been unsuccessful (he didn't elaborate). I also witnessed the child being brought to the facility by another family member on two more occasions where they shared lunch and spent time with the nurse. Is it just me and the fact that I don't have much experience? Or does this strike anyone else as weird? Is this something that is more common than what I think? I read threads about nurses adopting babies from the NICU and things like that, but couldn't find anything else. I guess what is the weird factor here is that the nurse and patient/patient family had just met and had only had a few hours of knowing each other (nurse is from out of state). So, during this single encounter, that nurse had to have mentioned something about wanting the child, or at least about wanting the child to come back to visit, within the only 4-5 hours of having interacted with them.