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Nurse Sexual Misconduct: the Value of Extreme Examples

May 5, 2015 by Chris MacDonald

Sexual contact with a patient is never a good thing. But the case cited below is an extreme one, and serves as a good reminder of just how big a problem it is, and just how many factors make it so problematic.

Nurse re-instated after sex with inmate

A NSW nurse who struck up a relationship with a mentally ill teenage inmate will be able practise again after telling a tribunal she does yoga to manage stress and has taken ethics courses…

…In a decision handed down this week, the Civil and Administrative Tribunal said the young man was “in a particularly vulnerable position as an incarcerated 19-year-old Aboriginal man with a history of self-harm and a serious mental illness”….

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