Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

So, since Catholics/Christians don't generally believe in abortions, some you you fellas don't think Catholics should be nurses...is that what I'm reading here?

Should no Seventh Day Adventists be nurses, since nurses might have to transfuse blood?

Oh, and now religious beliefs/moral beliefs are "naive illusions", are they?

CRNA2007, you may be the greatest poster ever!!!

It is absolutely about us. Or should be. Any industry where the worker is disregarded is one that needs to be reevaluated and restructured. People in medicine put their backs, their feet, their nerves, their emotions and even their lives on the line for their patients. They are not just some lamb there to be sacrificed for the care of patients.

And people wonder why there's a nursing shortage and why the average new nurse last less than 6 years on the job.

You think just like the patients and administrators do.

Well, we obviously disagree on this subject, so I don't see any sense in carrying our discussion any further. I'll close by saying that you put everything on the line when you give up your morality to do ANYTHING.

So, since Catholics/Christians don't generally believe in abortions, some you you fellas don't think Catholics should be nurses...is that what I'm reading here?

Should no Seventh Day Adventists be nurses, since nurses might have to transfuse blood?

Oh, and now religious beliefs/moral beliefs are "naive illusions", are they? People who have these beliefs should accept them being "shattered", but don't you dare interfere with the woman who believes her fetus is just a soulless bundle of cells...amirite?

This blood thing could produce dangerous situations. There could be a long delay in giving a patient a critical blood transfusion because his/her nurse who happens to be a Jehovah's witness(or some other religion I am not picking on any particular one) and is refusing to do it. I could see it happening I really can. I have been in many situations where I could barely do my own work, if I had to repeatedly stop and give blood to another person's patient sooner or later there would be an incident. Somebody is going to bleed to death while they try to find a nurse who free to hang the blood.

Then the obvious answer is to not choose a profession and a job where you just might be required to give up your morality.

What this regulation does is gives those that made a poor decision to choose a profession and job where they must face conflicts of conscience a legal out. Instead of accepting personal responsibility for a poor fit, they instead blame their employer for not bending to the their beliefs and/or whims.

When we discourage personal responsibility in favor of government babysitting, everybody loses.

That's okay, though, because it's about us, not the patient!