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Isabella Corbett

NSW Nurses And Midwives Have Been Told To Stop Posting On OnlyFans Give Them A Fkn Pay Rise Then

In truly fucked news, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW has warned the state’s nurses and midwives against posting content on OnlyFans. I honestly don’t know where to start. Per the Sydney Morning Herald, nurses and midwives received an email from the council on Wednesday, headlined: “OnlyFans — Are you breaching the professional standards by subscribing to online content services?” The email advised nurses and midwives that if they are recognised on OnlyFans or post content of themselves in uniform, then they could be reported to the council for their “conduct”, which could be “deemed by the complainant as unprofessional, or as one said, a distraction for patients”. “The social media guidance is clear on the obligation of nurses and midwives to maintain professional boundaries, and where relevant the Nursing and Midwifery Board may consider social media use in your private life (even when there is no identifiable link to you as a registered health practitioner) if it raises concerns about your fitness to hold registration,” it continued. Hmm. A bit to unpack here, don’t you think? I don’t know what kind of Madonna-whore complex these poor nurses and midwives are being held to whereby doing sex work could be seen as “unprofessional” or a “distraction for patients”. If they’re abiding by their workplace’s social media guidelines and are doing it in their spare time, how does posting on OnlyFans impede on a health worker’s ability to perform their job? It doesn’t — it’s blatant whorephobia and only further stigmatises sex workers, suggesting that what they do is unethical, shameful and disrespectful; that sex work and providing life-saving medical care are mutually exclusive. One nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, told the SMH
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