An offer to pray is not an offer to burn one at the stake! OK people?!?!

An offer to pray represents a very real violation of another persons right to diversity and dignity. That this violation was not only committed by a health worker but in the home of patient amounts to a serious abuse of a professional privilege in the place where a person really ought to feel at their safest. To quote from Guardian.co.uk:

Petrie, a Baptist..., said she had not forced her beliefs on anyone, but had simply asked if the woman would like a prayer said for her. She said: "I'm not angry, and I understand if people don't believe in the way that I do. But I am upset because I enjoy this job and it [prayer] is a valuable part of the care I give.

How can the leaving of prayer cards and offering to prayer be anything other than a forcing of beliefs? Especially as, by her admission, Ms Petrie regards such supernatural mumbo-jumbo as an important part of her job - indeed, this is not the first time she has been disciplined in this respect. That she has been since reinstated seems a fair indication that, as has been suggested elsewhere on this thread, things are very rotten, or else very desperate, somewhere.

For further reading I suggest the NMC Code of Conduct which this person is duty bound to abide by however so inconvenient it might be to her Christian mission.