Finally

Submitted by Tater Salad (United States), Jan 24, 2010 at 19:57

Netherlands: Nurses Union says Muslims might not be suitable for nursing

If Muslim nurses have objections to washing the buttocks of male patients, they should ask themselves whether they're suitable for the job, says the Dutch Nurses' Association (V&VN). The organization recently wrote guidelines for conscientious Objections.

Francis Bolle of V&VN says that in general there are relatively few nurses of Muslim background working in hospitals. Bolle says that the reason might be that Muslims, and in practice it's mostly Muslim women, have difficulty with physical contact with patients, for example, during washing.

How are nurses in the United States, do they object and put the work off on someone else? If so, this is wrong and they should be fired.

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