So we recently admitted a male patient who identifies himself as female. We don't get many patients like her. A nurse in particular let's his political views get in the way of work and has been calling this patient "it".
Now, let's fast forward to the dilemma. During medication pass, he addressed the patient as "it" out loud and other staff and patients started laughing; next thing you know, we had a behavioral emergency on our hands.
I filled out an incident report because several other nurses and I have spoken to this nurse prior to the event happening. One nurse even brought it up the chain of command. Not only is it unprofessional but it's endangering the safety of others - clearly, it's one of her triggers. Has anyone ever dealt with this type of conduct?
But I did go to Catholic high school; your view points were considered and rejected years ago.
But Catholic-bashing is acceptable? Alrighty...
Do you recuse yourself from caring for Catholic patients? Because one is not capable of containing his/her biases while providing care. So by your logic, you wouldn't be capable of keeping your anti-Catholic beliefs out of the nurse-pt relationship.
Disbelief in Catholic doctrine does not equal "anti-Catholic". Once again, it's the implication that the only way to respect another's viewpoint is to agree with it.
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Didn't mean to like your comment.
You can "unlike" the comment that you "liked" in error.... underneath where you see the list of names of people who liked it, off to the right should be a link to "UnLike" it. Click on that, and your name disappears from the list.
Disbelief in Catholic doctrine does not equal "anti-Catholic". Once again, it's the implication that the only way to respect another's viewpoint is to agree with it.
I do agree with that, and I'm not Catholic either--I'm Reformed. However, my comment stemmed from how he went out of his way to tell RK that her beliefs were "rejected," when this isn't even a post debating Catholic doctrine.
First of all, HOW RUDE!!! to call a human being an "it" is beyond demeaning.
What's wrong with asking the patient how to be addressed? I had a similar case with a transitioning transgender and I nicely asked the patient how they would like to be referred, he said as a "she" and from then on, he was a SHE and we carried on!!
I hope the nurse who cause that "chaos" was properly dealth with by the chain of command. . .
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But Catholic-bashing is acceptable? Alrighty...
Do you recuse yourself from caring for Catholic patients? Because one is not capable of containing his/her biases while providing care. So by your logic, you wouldn't be capable of keeping your anti-Catholic beliefs out of the nurse-pt relationship.