I know, without getting too deep, that the only purpose a human being serves is to build the Kingdom of God in the physical world. Nursing provides a fantastic opportunity to do just that and still be able to make a living. But not everyone in nursing is building the Kingdom of God--some are just down right evil.
I knew a nurse once who I observed giving a 17-year old girl all the pain medication she wanted while at the same time refusing to give a homeless man adequate pain medication. The only motivation seemed to be that /p giving the pain meds the patient would have to be kept in the unit longer. Obviously the girl could stay, but the nurse didn't want the homeless man around. The nurse wanted him out and to the floor as soon as possible. Would you call this evil?
I'm being deliberatly vague to erase any possibility of linking this post to the actual persons involved.
I find it interesting that no one has a response to the question: is it evil to withold pain medication from a patient you don't "like." Perhaps good and evil is too deep to talk about, or perhaps it just has no place in modern nursing. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if anyone out there has noticed that the spiritual warfare between good and evil becomes blatantly apparent on the floor and in the units. It seems there's always an opportunity to be an angel or a demon.
I find it interesting that no one has a response to the question: is it evil to withold pain medication from a patient you don't "like." Perhaps good and evil is too deep to talk about, or perhaps it just has no place in modern nursing. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if anyone out there has noticed that the spiritual warfare between good and evil becomes blatantly apparent on the floor and in the units. It seems there's always an opportunity to be an angel or a demon.
The Monist
Withholding pain medication from someone you don't like, the answer to THAT is so common sense!!! It's not deep at all!!
I find it interesting that no one has a response to the question: is it evil to withold pain medication from a patient you don't "like." Perhaps good and evil is too deep to talk about, or perhaps it just has no place in modern nursing. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if anyone out there has noticed that the spiritual warfare between good and evil becomes blatantly apparent on the floor and in the units. It seems there's always an opportunity to be an angel or a demon.
The Monist
Since I'm a secular humanist, I don't believe in spirits, spiritual warfare, souls, gods, angels, demons, etc...if someone were to do that, it would be negligence as someone mentioned above. Sounds pretty simple to me.
Withholding pain meds from a patient you don't like?????? In my 19 years of nursing, I have never seen that done. Every nurse, myself included, that I have ever worked with, has never been negligent like that. Did the OP stop to think that perhaps there was a reason that pain meds had to be withheld form this "homeless" person? Perhaps renal failure, or the patient had consumed alcohol earlier in the day???
No one that I have ever worked with in these 19 years has ever discriminated against a patient-- for ANY reason!!!!!! Nor even thought about it!!!!
I agree with you ..what Nurse would withhold pain medication for no apparent reason...:stone..hopefully none ..and in my 20 years of nursing I have seen none...:chuckle
if this really happened ..don't forget even a homeless person can sue....
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psychomachia
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and so will I...