Before you read this post, cover your eyes!

Cynthia Adams was a registered hospice nurse for Fayette Home Care and Hospice. According to one of her hospice patients, Adams apparently showed him and his wife three pictures of her boyfriend's genitals, the photos of which were stored on her cell phone. Not surprisingly, the patient told another nurse from Fayette about the incident and asked that Adams not come back.

In responding to this incident, however, Fayette was faced with a bit of a Human Resources quandary: Adams had just begun a leave of absence taken under the Family and Medical Leave Act. These fact patterns never are simple, are they? So, did Fayette investigate and terminate Adams' employment immediately (if the alleged facts are indeed true), or wait until Adams returned from FMLA leave (ahem, two months later) to terminate employment? In this instance, Fayette decided to wait until Adams' FMLA leave ended before confronting her with the allegations and terminating her employment...