I am currently in nursing school and considering what I would like to do in the future. I'm considering a lot of things and I know things might change as I get farther along In nursing school.
I am very passionate about pregnancy and babies. I believe pregancy and birth should be seen as incredible, not a disease. I believe that women's bodies know what they are doing and that natural childbirth should be encouraged whenever possible. I want to work with pregnant women and newborns, especially low income and young mothers, but I'm not only interested in the pregnancy and delivery part. I would love to get involved with breastfeeding promotion/support and health promotion after the baby is born but I'm not sure if that is something a CNM would be involved with.
Im concerned about the lack of work/family balance because I want children of my own and I don't want a nanny to raise them. Are there any jobs a CNM could do part time for a few years? Also, are CNMs involved with abortions or artificial family planning usually? I'm not willing to participate in or advocate for abortions or artificial family planning.
I am also doing research online and trying to find a midwife to shadow but I would love to get some information from the knowledgeable people on here.
Bottom line: there should be no space for anyone working in women's health who can't view every woman as worthy of the highest quality, nonjudgmental care.
JJ1994, I understand that you are saying you would provide nonjugmental care to women, even if you don't personally agree with their choices. And of course you are correct- all of us have had the experience of caring for a patient who is, by our judgment, making bad choices.
However, there is no room in health care (OR ANYWHERE) for providers who hold homophobic and classist beliefs. What if I said that I think African Americans were, by their very nature, suboptimal parents, but don't worry I will still treat them the same for the sake of their poor, sad babies! I would hope that I would get roundly schooled by my colleagues.
It's one thing to say, I don't believe in abortion, so I will choose not to provide this service (assuming you will provide a referral to ANY woman who wants it, regardless of your assessment of her "need").
It's another thing ALL TOGETHER to make a blanket statement that a certain group of people are inherently "suboptimal" to hetero, coupled parents. That is discriminatory and unacceptable. You have no factual basis to make that claim. NONE.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
This whole thread had me fighting back against black and white train of thought. The one who should spark your train of thought is the person who claims not ever wanting to help someone conceive because she knows the child would be in a subpar family.
I get really sick of traditional values and morality being degraded as naive, immature, and everything else that's been hurled at the OP of this thread. So much for mutual respect for each other's differences.
I get really sick of traditional values and morality being degraded as naive, immature, and everything else that's been hurled at the OP of this thread. So much for mutual respect for each other's differences.
Merely stating that one thinks the traditional family is the ideal setting for raising children is not homophobia.
Key word: thinks. There's no place in nursing for someone who may "think" that the traditional family is better and non traditional families? "will never help them have children". :thumbdown:
So you advocate viewpoint discrimination in nursing employment then? Those who hold traditional values should be barred from all nursing programs and employment?
So you advocate viewpoint discrimination in nursing employment then? Those who hold traditional values should be barred from all nursing programs and employment?
Are you trolling? You must be. I'm not even going to entertain your question.
No I'm not trolling. And as far as I'm aware, it actually violates TOS to call other posters trolls.
This is a legitimate question. Several people on this thread have said there is no place in nursing for someone who thinks like OP does. The logical next step is disallowing people with certain opinions and beliefs from nursing. So are you willing to take your opinion to the next logical step?
cayenne06, MSN, CNM
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JJ1994, I understand that you are saying you would provide nonjugmental care to women, even if you don't personally agree with their choices. And of course you are correct- all of us have had the experience of caring for a patient who is, by our judgment, making bad choices.
However, there is no room in health care (OR ANYWHERE) for providers who hold homophobic and classist beliefs. What if I said that I think African Americans were, by their very nature, suboptimal parents, but don't worry I will still treat them the same for the sake of their poor, sad babies! I would hope that I would get roundly schooled by my colleagues.
It's one thing to say, I don't believe in abortion, so I will choose not to provide this service (assuming you will provide a referral to ANY woman who wants it, regardless of your assessment of her "need").
It's another thing ALL TOGETHER to make a blanket statement that a certain group of people are inherently "suboptimal" to hetero, coupled parents. That is discriminatory and unacceptable. You have no factual basis to make that claim. NONE.