If anyone wants to hear from a lot of nurses on this incident, there's a thread about it at allnurses.com : thread about suspensions for prayer offer. It's a very long thread, but is broken up into sections so it shouldn't take too long to load.

I'm an RN myself. My opinion is that it wasn't appropriate for the nurse to offer to pray, but that suspending her for it is a little excessive (unless there's a lot more history than we know).   There are nursing shortages everywhere, and we can't afford to be losing people from "the bedside" over problems that could be solved with some sort of remedial education.

Marion