Bells..... it is nice to hear that you and your husband can manage a work relationship so well in a small country town when I am sure there is even more gossip than a large city hospital. You are right though, it can become very schoolyard which adds a new dimension to work which is totally unnecessary.

Foxylass..... hindsight it 20/20

Hi there
Well I am one of those workplace romances - I dated then married my RN husband. And yes we are strictly professional when at work together. Unfortunatly we are currently working in a small country hospital where the staffing make such a big deal over us being caught talking in the corridor even if it is about patience care!!! So school yard!

mm i totally agree i think if there is romance in the workplace those ppl keep it to the bear minimum to make it obvious that their into each other though ,

Romance in the workplace When I was a new grad I worked at Westmead Hospital and my first rotation was the Neurosurgical ward. I lived in the staff quarters with three other RNs but I was new to the area. I ended up with tonsillitis and I didn't have a GP there yet. I went into Parramatta to a medical centre. I saw a very young GP. When I signed the Medicare form he looked at me and said, " You live downstairs from me. Now I know where I've seen you before you work on the neurosurgical ward don't you? I'm a neuro registrar. I'm just moonlighting here a few shifts every couple of weeks."

Two days later he knocked on my door and asked to borrow a cup of sugar! Then the next day he asked to borrow my vacuum cleaner and asked me out to dinner. We dated for about three months but drifted apart when I moved to ICU for my next rotation and had to study +++ and he was studying +++ for his consultant exams. Should have really made more of an effort he became a neurosurgeon - he was definitely a keeper and not bad eye candy either!