I think that horse left already.

Where is the poster 'cjones' with his comment......"thanks for letting us know what is going on back home"?

When I first heard about the phone call I searched it out and listened. It was much funnier reading about it than listening. I like pranks as much as anyone - maybe more - but I felt the presenters were very immature and I even felt a little insulted by their attitude before they made the call.

I'm sure they are feeling terrible and part of me is glad.

I don't like pranks at all, they always involve humiliating someone, a joke at another person's expense. Where's the decency in that?

You'll hate this then.

yep, feel awkward watching these things.

I feel that could have been a very dangerous prank, especially if one of the people involved had any sort of a heart problem.

It depends on the prank and the individual. Plenty of people can laugh at themselves.

It wasn't a prank but Donna the Deer Lady must have felt a bit foolish after her radio phone-in complaint. Yet she went back on the radio after.

Yes and I laughed very hard at that one, but she took it in her stride and thats what most pertetrators of pranks expect the recipient to do. (though /i do realise that the deer cll wasn't a prank) I won't say victim because a prank is supposed to be lighthearted, and people rightly of wrongly assume the person that it's played on, can take it.

That one was hillarious and made even better as it wasn't a prank.

Like everything it comes down to not being a dick.

Or as our dear friend Lorna D pointed out to me earlier, "think before you say or do anything, it has an effect on others"

But you don't have a choice though do you? So you pretend it was all huge fun and laugh about it.

Ah yes, not be a dick

All nurses are accountable to the NCC. Who would probably revoked her registration, for breach of confidentiality. This would lead to her being unable to work as a nurse. The poor woman had children to support, plus the constant humiliation of being "that nurse".

The idiots in Australia should have thought through the actions of their " prank" before picking up the phone. Playing with someone's livelyhood is not funny at all. Their are 2 children without a mother, because they wanted to get a cheap laugh. Shame on them, and all who listened to the recording.

She did not breach any confidentiality though. The NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council is the regulatory body. Who are the NCC?

As I said before the nurse who did give out information thought she was talking to a family member and if prior consent has been given by the patient then there is no breach. Some hospitals do not allow any information to be given by phone except in exceptional circumstances.

The concerns for disciplinary action would be whether or not hospital procedures and professional guidelines were followed.