Rep. Les Gara's bill would allow mental health patients in institutions with a staff of 10 or more to make a gender preference for intimate care. If a staff member of the same sex is not available to accommodate the request, the hospital must document the reason.Given the case they are using in the article as an example, I can see how this could be a good thing.
"It's about the basic right of the most vulnerable patients to be treated with dignity," Gara, D-Anchorage, told the House Health, Education and Social Services Committee last week.
He argued that patients who have suffered sexual abuse could be further traumatized by having a member of the opposite sex bathe or clothe them.
Yet a part of me fears for the women nurses who will no doubt be picked by perverted male patients with nurse fantasies.
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