I just got an injection from a back up nurse is it OK for me to flirt with her?

No. Not unless she shows some interest. If she isn’t interested you’ll just come off looking like a cad.

Negative ghost rider. She has to be nice to you as part of her job, has to be close to your as part of her job, and often gets hit on as part of that.

Don’t mistake caring for affection.

Good point @funkdaddy. Don’t confuse politeness with interest in you.

No! They are not there to respond to patients’ whims.

To me, flirting and asking someone on a date are two different things. Flirting is more things like “You have a pretty smile.” To me, you can do that. I would not ask her out though.

Do not. Save the flirting for the librarians.

@all thanks for the warning. I’ll leave her alone.

Depends on how she administered said injection, was it a small prick?

She will thank you for it! I imagine she gets hit on all time just because she has to be in such close proximity to her patients.

Dude, assemble the words, nurse, back up, injection, and flirt? You really want to draw that hand?

@jca nailed it. As a sentient male of a certain age it is in my genes to flirt. When I check out at the supermarket I actually have to restrain myself from saying “I’m lucky to have gotten the lane with the best-looking cashier” but only because I do not recall how often I have actually used that line, and I do not want to be overly predictable and boring and a one-note-Johnny (and if you’ve really got your flirting shoes on you say that when the cashier is obviously not the youngest and prettiest girl in the store – although for me it is mandatory that she actually be female; YMMV, and that’s okay). So by all means flirt; that’s cool and human and natural and friendly and funny if you don’t have any particular expectations of a return on the investment. If I had a dollar for every woman who had ever been turned off by my flirting then I’d be more attractive to some of them.

But “asking her on a date” (at least while she’s on the job) crosses a line. It forces her – because of her ethics and training, if for no other reason – to say “No” to you and can even make her feel defensive, like “What’s his reaction to this refusal going to be? Is he one of the crazy ones, or what?”

Flirt if you feel like it, and then back off and she if she banters back or is “all business”, and act accordingly, but always like a gentleman.

@CWOTUS: What’s “YMMV?”

your millage may vary