When accepting a gift can

be professional misconduct and theft.

Authors:
Griffith, Richard1 richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
Source:
British Journal of Community Nursing. Jul2016, Vol. 21 Issue 7, p365-367. 3p.
Document Type:
Article
Subject Terms:
*THEFT -- Law & legislation
*GIFT giving
*COMMUNITY health nursing
*CORRUPTION
*LABOR discipline
*NURSE & patient
*NURSES
*NURSING ethics
*ORGANIZATIONAL behavior
*PROFESSIONS
*CODES of ethics
MORAL & ethical aspects
Geographic Terms:
GREAT Britain
Author-
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Keywords:
Gift, loan, professional misconduct, theft
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Gifts are often given as tokens of gratitude by grateful patients to district nurses. However, there are circumstances
where the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), as the professional regulator, and the courts, have held that
accepting gifts, large or small, from vulnerable adults is dishonest and amounts to professional misconduct and
even theft. Richard Griffith discusses the circumstances where a district nurse who accepts a gift can face a
fitness-to-practise investigation and an allegation of theft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University

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