Recently, at our small community hospital, the only hospitalist on the 7p-7a shift wasn't answering his pager when a CCU nurse was looking for him about a patient. After several attempts to reach him, she went looking for him, thinking he might be sleeping(that's allowed) Upon hearing voices behind the sleep room door, she summoned the Nsg supervisor, who found the door to be locked. She in turn got a maintenance man to unlock the door. Behind the door, she found quite a sight. The hospitalist and an off duty nurse. She was naked, he scrambling for his clothes. Both are married--not to each other.
She was given a mere 2 days suspension. He works for a physicians group that staffs hospitals, and we have not seen him since.
She has worked for the hospital for many years. What do YOU think should happen to her?
Oh come on kids. It's just sex. Who cares really. I agree with ther person who suggested the OP doesn't have all the facts, because it is just too lame and stupid to think any allegedly intelligent person would do that, or that the maintainence man would even agree to it! Between the three of them, I'd think at least he would have a lick of sense, lol. I also expect that they would have heard them working on the door. The tale just doesn't ring true. Unless they were being sneaky and wanted to catch them, in which case It hink those three ought to get fired. The lucky couple gets a high five from me too. Good for them.
Newsflash: I have sex when I'm on call, and guess what, they have to wait until I'm finished before I return the call. They also have to suck it up and wait if I decide to eat a meal, take a shower or use the toilet. Pretty much the only time I'll return a call or page immediately is if I was sleeping, and that's only because I wasn't busy doing something else, lol.
What do you care about more when you're being paid to care for critically ill patients--your sex life or you patients life? There are plenty of other places to have sex...NOT at work!
I still can't believe all the people here who are defending their behavior. I suspect some people in this thread who have done exactly what this couple did.
There is a time and a place for everything and having sex at your place of work is unacceptable....unless you are a Media star. What is wrong with some of you?!?
If every resident and nurse was fired and banned from the medical profession there'd be no nurses or physicians. Heck, If I was the supervisor I'd be glad that at least the nurse was of duty!
Dare I go into the happenings of residents and nurses at academic facilities??? Form practical jokes to hidden rendezvous..... They have to release stress somehow when they never leave the facility.
Every bit on TV is true.
It's not a resident, it's a 60-ish doctor and his 50-ish girlfriend. Both old enough to know better.
Ok, just exactly WHY is there no mention whatsoever in your post of the doctor's "moral issues and lack of judgment?" Talk about the ole double standard.
I'm pretty sure the physician is out the door. Or tucked his tail and ran.....
I never saw that post, I guess that is what she meant when she commented that I proved her point when I said I have sex, eat, use the shower and toilet myself while on call. As if I'm supposed to be ashamed of those things? ROTFLOL. I have sex 3-4 times a week and it is gooood. I'm not going to stop because I have to take call. How absurd. Even more absurd is the expectation that anyone would! Some people are rally weird about sex. I've heard counseling helps.
And I've heard some people have sex addiction. And counseling helps.
I've seen our on-call room. Dimmed lighting, huge LED TV, massage shower... I can see some MD's getting in the mood there. I have on occasion even asked them to give me shower time in there just because it is *awesomesauce*.
I don't understand the CCU nurse. If you need your MD so urgently that you set out on a quest to find him and then you'd waste the time getting half the hospital involved in your plan to break open the door... Seems to me she should be fired for delaying patient care and showing poor moral character for not making patient care her top priority. She was on duty after all.
We never have an excuse to call anyone. All doors in my hospital are outfitted with a badge opener and ICU and ER staff can open ALL the doors in the hospital in case of codes ^^. I mean just knock and have a good laugh with the MD about it when he shows up, keeps the atmosphere light and your professional relationship with him free of vengeance.
My question sexual frustration or not is who on earth would want to go to their workplace off duty or not and have sex..? he was wrong and so was she and she should have been fired as well.. we nurses are supposed to have ethical and moral character. I mean I like sex as well as anyone but by Gosh why at work. Haven't they heard of off duty and Motel 6 ?
And certainly the high paid MD could afford to get a room!!
My niece's generation ...well, she can text with one hand, and do it without looking. She can text holding her phone inside her purse - so she tells me that's what she did in highschool. Apparently that hospitalist needs some skilllz. Just say'in.
That hospitalist is over 60 and prior to becoming a hospitalist he was a GP in this community for years. And a nasty self centered ass. What attracted her to him, most of us cannot figure out.
. They have to release stress somehow when they never leave the facility.
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pawsomepooch47
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What do you care about more when you're being paid to care for critically ill patients--your sex life or you patients life? There are plenty of other places to have sex...NOT at work!