Nurses who Smoke, what do you think?

Although I've worked with nurses, I've never been one. I have, however been a patient (in and out of a hospital) more times than I'd prefer.

1) Yes, but more for the example s/he sets and for her/his health than mine.

2) Not as long as the nurses don't smoke around the patients. Preferably nowhere near any healthcare facility.

3) ABSOLUTELY. Most of the hospitals near me have banned tobacco from their premises. I think that's how it should be, given the problems both first- and secondhand smoke cause.

4) Nurses have the right to smoke, but nowhere near any patients. Because infants are more sensitive to it, and might be harmed by indirect smoke, only non-smoking nurses should work in neonatal care, and especially in NICUs.

Just like anyone else, it's a bad idea for nurses and other healthcare personnel to smoke. It's more so because people, especially kids, look to them as examples.

1. No

2. No because of no such thing as indirect smoke.

3. Already has been banned at the hospitals in my area.

4. Their choice to smoke away from work. See 2.

1. If it doesn't prevent them from their job correctly, why would I be concerned?

2. No I am not, because neither one exist. If they did, no one would be alive past the age of 50.

3. You can''t smoke in hospitals. You can't prevent someone from smoking outside.

4. They have just as much right as anyone else. There was a time when Dr.'s would smoke in the hospital and in their office. So obviously they didn't believe in second and third hand smoke.

How would the smoke from the nurse pass to the patient?

And what does being a nurse have to do with smoking?

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