This Nurse Ratched has a thing for cleavage.
An axed registered nurse claims she was ogled, smacked on the rear and repeatedly propositioned by a senior female colleague — who allegedly was protected by management because of a previous sexual relationship with a female higher-up, according to a lawsuit.
RN Marie Senat says working at Montefiore Medical Center with nurse Vanessa Ferro was like walking past a bunch of wolf-whistling construction workers.
“Your breasts are juicy. Are you sure they are real?” senior nurse Ferro asked Senat, according to court papers.
Ferro asked Senat if she had ever dated gals, and told her: “You should go out with women.”
“You have nice curves,” Ferro allegedly said.
She is accused in the lawsuit of violating patient-confidentiality by looking at records to track down Senat while she tended to patients.
But colleagues warned that administrators wouldn’t discipline Ferro because she’d had a sexual relationship with Deb Makin, the assistant director in the pediatric ER at Montefiore, according to the Bronx Supreme Court suit.
“Ferro knew she would not be reprimanded for her sexual harassment at Montefiore because of her relationship with Makin,” Senat charges in court documents.
Senat complained but was told to “just keep quiet if you want to finish your assignment,” by supervisor Delores Eggan, she claims.
Eggan then forced Senat to handle tasks alone that were normally done by multiple staffers, and “would laugh while Senat was taking care of trauma patients by herself,” while preventing other nurses from assisting, Senat charges.
Senat, who says she was unfairly fired, is seeking unspecified damages.
Ferro and Eggan couldn’t be reached for comment.
A Montefiore spokeswoman defended Ferro and Eggan as “exemplary,” and slammed Senat’s allegations as baseless, saying Senat “was terminated for poor performance.”