Privacy concerns

My husband recently had a heart transplant combined with LVAD ex-plant. He had a few post-surgical complications and required two additional open-heart procedures, so he is still in the CVICU.

He is now improving enough that his team wants to transfer him to the step-down unit this week. One of our neighbours is a nurse in this unit. We have known her for years. She is a lovely, kind, compassionate person. She is also one of the biggest gossips in our neighbourhood. She is part of a clique of neighbours who know everyone’s business and talk about it. I know this because I am a peripheral member of this group.

We would prefer that she not be assigned to him (the nurse to patient ratio in the step-down unit is 2:1). If I speak to the charge nurse, will our neighbour find out we requested not to have her? I don’t need any neighbourhood drama right now.