A Nursing Student Needs Your Help!

[Tuesday17]

I am in my last five weeks of nursing school (YEAH)! Have one class left which includes posting a couple of questions on a professional site in order to receive feedback from my peers. Questions are for current nurses as well as nursing students.

Question #1: Do you feel that 12 hour shifts are more beneficial to you as a nurse or better for the patients? Briefly explain your rationale.

Question #2: If a HCP ordered a patient to receive an abortion pill would you administer the medication to the patient? (This was a question given to us in first semester - interesting results).

Thanks to all for helping me out with this project!

Tuesday from Idaho, USA

[Tuesday17]

By the way, I appreciate y'all's comments. It inspires and motivates me to continue doing what I believe is right in my own nursing practice. Again, thanks!

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

as adults it behooves us to have a good handle on our own beliefs and values, yes. but to be a nurse is to leave your values behind, in my opinion, if they prevent you from acting in a way that they are in any conflict with the patient/family's beliefs. sure, if you are a devout (insert your favorite religion here) who believes that (insert medication/action here) is an offense to (insert deity here) and you will not participate in its use because it (offends deity/puts your soul in danger/is a mortal sin), then you can (ask someone else to do it for you, take a job somewhere else where it won't come up, or other). what you cannot do is impose your beliefs on the patient.

in turn, this means we are obligated to be mindful about discovering the patient/family beliefs when appropriate, so we aren't thoughtlessly doing what we think is right only to discover later, to our sorrow, that we were wrong.

[Tuesday17]

So, I added a poll....please vote!