So many people in this thread are saying "if she was of another faith rather than Christian, the management would not have had a go at her."

So easy to slip off the tongue or keyboard, yet so wrong.

One of the main reasons why religion has its place in certain aspects of healthcare and not others is to allow people to work or be cared for without awkward connotations. Yes, you may well feel that you are a muslim or christian or whatever all the time, but clinicians have a duty they all understand as professionals, not to let it interfere with their duty of care.

If they did, then some doctors or nurses would not feel it appropriate to talk to or touch members of the opposite sex, or may not feel it appropriate to give contraceptive or abortion care. Consent of a female patient would only count if it was given by their husband or father in many faiths...

Luckily, clinicians, and I mean doctors, nurses and allied health professionals have a professional duty of care that is not subject to religious view, and the NHS employer, together with the accreditation body that governs their registration (Nursing and Midwifery Council in this case) give the legal right to practice their skills subject to conditions. This nurse was clearly breaking those conditions.

Just out of interest, a staff grade Muslim doctor at a local trust had his hours (and therefore pay) reduced when he kept patients waiting at his Friday clinic as he dropped everything for Friday prayers. This was not acceptable as he was contracted to be working to the end of the clinic.

I know it can seem wrong that a kind offer to pray for a patient can get you in trouble, but nurses are professionals with a code of conduct to work by, and she entered the patient's house as a nurse, not a well wisher.