It was a mental hospital. Equal responsibility doesn't apply. The nurse was in a professional caregiver role. It doesn't matter (to me) whether she was married or single. It likely happens a lot but is not publicized or sued over.
I found it kind of unfair how this patient was aggressively pursuing a relationship with his nurse, and in the end he is suing her for negligence. The guy is in the hospital for bipolar and other personality issues, so he is definitely a major f* up!
I found it kind of unfair how this patient was aggressively pursuing a relationship with his nurse, and in the end he is suing her for negligence. The guy is in the hospital for bipolar and other personality issues, so he is definitely a major f* up!
Those are the precise reasons why she should have avoided any kind of relationship with him, let alone a sexual romantic one. She crossed boundaries which she shouldn't have done. I'm in the UK and a nurse and my profession here would simply strike us off the licensing register. There's no way any nurse in the UK would be allowed to continue practicing after this kind of behaviour. Like you say, he's clearly not in any frame of mind to know what is acceptable or not, she was... she should have known better.
I found it kind of unfair how this patient was aggressively pursuing a relationship with his nurse, and in the end he is suing her for negligence. The guy is in the hospital for bipolar and other personality issues, so he is definitely a major f* up!
He is a loser for sure and his lawsuit is a joke.
But he didn't hold a gun to her head. He didn't MAKE her cheat on her husband.
So hopefully what happens in this all is the lawsuit is thrown out, but the nurse's husband divorces her and comes away smelling like a rose.
But he didn't hold a gun to her head. He didn't MAKE her cheat on her husband.
She was a nurse in a mental hospital. Again, she should have known better. This is the same thing as a teacher getting it on with one of his/her students, or a shrink messing with one of his patients. You just don't do these things in these proffesions.
Clearly the responsibility here rests primarily with the professional caregiver. People in positions of high responsibility are held to a higher standard.
They have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the client, not break rules, commit crimes, and damage the patients mental health for their own emotional/physical gratification.
Doctors/Psyciatrists go to jail for this stuff. This nurse is lucky that the legal system does not hold her to the same standard.
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