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Perhaps there is more to the story. Once we had a very obese clerk in our dep't and the nurses station smelled so bad no one could work in there. I know she was clean but the smell just couldn't go away. Then one day she was gone and so was the chair she sat in. Food for thought.

Perhaps they should have transferred her to another department/position, one where she was less apt to sweat so much, in lieu of firing her. May have saved them a headache and she would still have a job. I used to work in surgery and at that time, weighed 105 llbs. Whether you are donned in gear and assisting or running back and forth as a circulator getting the surgeon what he needs, and although the temp is freezing, we all got hot, we have all sweat a little. Did they not have a position in the GI lab or medical records doing chart audits, etc. ??? Firing should be the last resort. Shows you don't care about people after she got up every morning and came to work and was a dedicated employee. I would have given her a membership to weight watchers and given her deadline to lose some weight before firing her. Is there not a nursing shortage in Canada? )-: Just remember nurse, when you get kicked out one door, there is another door open to you. It may be a hidden blessing!

Oh geesh aroy3719 if you believe what you posted, then I've got a bridge in brooklyn, some swamp land in Alaska, and iceburg in florida to sell you.

My best friend's neighbors dog walker's nephew knows the head-nurse of the Operating room at that hospital. She got fired when she dropped a triple cheeseburger with fries right into a chest cavity during open heart surgery... the patient was surprisingly pleasant about the whole affair, he commented that the reason he needed a quadruple bypass, and complete arterial replacement, was that he too loved triple bacon cheeseburgers. He said "don't sweat it," and she said... "too late for that". The bottom line is that while she perspired, he almost expired.

Any hospital staff member could have referred her to a doctor that should have been able to help her with this "sweating" problem. Unless there are some other unpublished information not being made known to the public, it sounds to me that the sweat was just the EXCUSE the facility was using to terminate her because any of their other reasons could have got them in trouble for unlawful discharge of an employee.

Do the doctors that sweat a lot get fired too?

cdnurse if you're going to say she probably has body odor, it's not necessarily true. Yet, if she did, again I say, many of the surgeons should be right behind her being dismissed as care givers. The absolute worst perpetrators of breaks in sterile techniques and contamination in the OR are the surgeons and anesthesiologists. Those who scrub and circulate have a continuous battle with them to maintain the sterile fields. Circulating nurses do not or should not be closer to the sterile field than 18 inches. This is the minimal safe distance mandated by AORN here in the US. I was a travel nurse for over 12 years of my almost 30 years in the OR and it's the exact same problem through out the US. Very few of the OR's have the new air filtration systems, because most OR's are old and outdated.

Yes it's a news article and many pertinent things have been left out. However, if taken at face value, it's discrimination.