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1. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   It is also a boundary issue to put pressure on people to sterilize themselves and have less kids when they believe contraception is wrong, but lots of Christians are proselytized by population control fanatics in the same, annoying, boundary violatin...

2. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   I've heard the other side of the annoying supermarket encounters-I've heard of people butting their nose into other people's family lives and making snide remarks to anyone who has the nerve to have more than two kids, and in hospitals there is enorm...

3. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   It is presumptuous to say that you understand reality sufficiently enough to rule out the possibility of malevolent beings, and it is possibvle to know that there are right and wrong beliefs, whether you think there is a right or wrong belief or not,...

4. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   A patient who takes their beliefs seriously will care whether you think they will care or not.

5. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   If some doctors recommend surgery out of greed when there is no need for it, are you going to say all doctors are bad? No! Religion is often blamed for the evil in the world because too many people abuse religion as an excuse to do evil, but religion...

6. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   Let me get this straight-if someone was standing over you praying that Pluto would come and take you to the underworld with him, you wouldn't have a problem with that?

7. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   I deliberately used the term "anti-religious" so as not to confuse it with the term "athiesm." Antireligious is someone hostile to religion. Not all Athiests are hostile to religion, and not all people go to church because of faith. Some of the most ...

8. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   Tell them the truth, that's the only honorable thing to do. Tell them you will call someone of their faith to pray with them if they want, but it would be wrong to decieve someone into thinking your joining with them in the same prayer when you're no...

9. religion in the workplace

   elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

   A patient might think they are on their way out medically if they aren't used to prayer outside of a crisis. All you have to do is say: I've found that it helps people who are suffering if I pray with them. If you'd like me to pray with you or call s...

10. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't misunderstand this. I'm not saying that having an athiest pray with someone is a bad thing. Holding my hand so I'm less scared is a good thing, especially if you're doing it while I'm praying, but from my perspective, if I'm a patient in...

11. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    Blessed are those who are persecuted. They problably got fired because anti-religious people have distorted the first amendment into freedom FROM religion, rather than freedom OF RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION. if it were my paycheck I'd have taken my employer...

12. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    I never said nurses were never present at a death, and just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't happen

13. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    Many sick patients who have been "evangelized," as you call it, welcome and appreciate it. The trouble is when you get someone who is hostile to religion. Those people will react badly to the mere suggestion of prayer, and you should respect their wi...

14. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    Family and clergy are with a patient at times nurses can't be, aqnd they have seen things you evidently haven't seen. What you are doing is treating what I said as if it applies in all cases when it doesn't. A lot of times it happens only at the very...

15. religion in the workplace

    elrondaragorn replied to elrondaragorn's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't say the rate was 100% of all cases, and the experts in this area are usually clergy and families