He works as a nurse in a hospital and cannot help touching women when treating them
Question

                I work as a nurse in a hospital ward for patients with breathing problems. There are men on one side and women on the other. I cannot help touching the sick women when giving them treatment only, and with no other intention. I cannot move to any other ward because every ward has the same system. My question is: is this haraam? If it is haraam, is my salary haraam too?.
Praise be to Allah.
    The basic principle is that treatment and nursing of women 
    should be done by female doctors and nurses, because of what is involved in 
    treatment of looking and examining. But if there is no female doctor or 
    nurse, it is permissible for that to be done by a man. But there is no doubt 
    that finding female nurses is something easy and readily done if the people 
    in charge of the hospitals want to do that. It is very sad and unfortunate 
    that some hospitals delegate female nurses to take care of men and male 
    nurses to take care of women. This is indicative of weakness in religious 
    commitment and a lack of proper supervision, and a lack of attention to the 
    rulings of Islam. 

    Hence we advise you to try hard to limit your work to 
    treating men only, even if that means moving to a ward where that is 
    accepted. If that is not possible, then there is nothing wrong with you 
    continuing in your work and treating women, on condition that you adhere to 
    the following guidelines: 

    1.Do not look at anything except 
    that which is necessary, and fear Allaah with regard to that. You can be 
    certain that Allaah is watching you and recording your deeds.

    2.Do not touch any part of the 
    patient's body without a barrier. So you should always wear gloves when 
    treating women, and even so, do not touch anything but that which it is 
    necessary to touch.

    3.Limit your talking to the 
    female patient to what is necessary.

    4.Do not be alone with a female 
    patient in an examination room or x-ray room and so on. Rather she should 
    have her mahram or another woman with her, whose presence leads to avoidance 
    of improper conduct, such as her mother for example, or other female 
    patients.

    See also the answer to question number
    9989 and
    112061. 

    We ask Allaah to forgive you and make things easy for you. 

    And Allaah knows best.