Faith,Oh Faith

[LoveYaHon]

hey everyone?i was wondering,has being a nurse increased your belief in g-d,a higher being,life after death,whatever!

has it?

1.yes,most defientiely.

2.yeah,well i guess.

3.no

4.it has extremely decreased my faith.

thank you nice people :kiss

[CATHYW]

Like Cheerfuldoer, my faith was already firmly established before I ever got into nursing. However, I checked "yes," because of the amazing fragility/strength/complicated workings of our bodies. Any person who could believe that something as miraculous as the human body simply "happened," or "evolved," flabbergasts me! The human body cannot be treated by one Dr. alone. Therefore, we have specialties, down to the microbiologists and pathologists.

The incredible beings that we are, in all of our complexity, did not just "happen." God created us.

I will never forget, in A&P, when I learned that flexor and extensor tendons and muscles and ligaments were what held us upright. I don't know what I had previously thought allowed us to do that, but I was, and still am, amazed!

There have also been instances of witnessing the power of prayer in the lives of my patients. I have seen people healed when nothing else worked, and I have seen people gently pass from this life to the next after prayer.

There is a hymn that begins, "I stand amazed in the presence...(of Jesus, the Nazerene). Ya'll can consider me one amazed and thankful person!

[shygirl]

Yes it has. I voted "yes". The first time that I was with a dying person and they finally died, a feeling came into the room that was...spiritual.

[Love-A-Nurse]

i already believed and still believe in god and my faith is increased daily because i stand on the promises of him.

[Cowgirl]

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

of things not see?!?!?

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

Howdy yall

from deep in the heart of texas

I feel that to function in nursing we all need to have belief in higher, It helps protect us. from what I dont know. I also feel that prayer can only help never hurt. Now i would never specify which higher source, but any will do per your own belief system.

Prayer still hasnt helped my golf game though. I keep praying and swinging.

[Sleepyeyes]

Originally posted by shygirl

Yes it has. I voted "yes". The first time that I was with a dying person and they finally died, a feeling came into the room that was...spiritual.

yep.

[lynniepooh]

Prior to becoming a nurse, I hadn't thought about this issue much. But now, I have been present at a number of patients' last moments on earth, and always feel a sense of awe. I always have the feeling that something more is going on than I am able to see, and many of the dying have made comments such as "My husband is here. Do you see him?" etc. I guess I now have a non-dogmatic belief that something comes next.