Prayer in the Workforce

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What is everyone's take on employee rights, and their patients prayer requests? As a pre nursing student I am curious to know what type of backlash Christians or anyone of any faith has experienced. I understand that keeping religion out of the workplace is essential to maintaining a high professional reputation, but with all the miraculous acts and end of life taking place, how can it be practiced without fearing some type of repercussion from the employer. Even though the patient requests that you share or lead in prayer.

Thanks, I know this is a touchy subject

anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

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anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

No, not agreed.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, High-Risk L&D, Antepartum, L.
anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

You aren't even a nurse. You have no clue. This was a very insulting comment. I know many nurses who aren't religious and are amazing. I know religious nurses who I would never let near me or my family.

So no a nurse with God doesn't make a difference unless you are looking for somebody to pray with you.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

Absolutely not!!

Insulting and abusive.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

No not agreed. At all. This insults many healthcare professionals, science and modern medicine.

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Specializes in Transitional Nursing.
What is everyone's take on employee rights, and their patients prayer requests? As a pre nursing student I am curious to know what type of backlash Christians or anyone of any faith has experienced. I understand that keeping religion out of the workplace is essential to maintaining a high professional reputation, but with all the miraculous acts and end of life taking place, how can it be practiced without fearing some type of repercussion from the employer. Even though the patient requests that you share or lead in prayer.

Thanks, I know this is a touchy subject

If the patient asks me to pray with them, I pray. If The patient makes it known that prayer is welcome or asks me to pray for them, I pray. Otherwise, I may pray, but in the privacy of my own head. I don't think you can get in trouble for obliging such a request, but I could be wrong.

Regardless of my faith, I don't believe it's right to push my beliefs on others. Hopefully they will

wonder what it is that I've got, and want some for themselves :-)

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

No, I don't agree at all. Whose God? Which God?

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anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

Just had to go there, couldn't help yourself? Too bad, I was there to support your right to discuss this here.

No, this statement of yours is not agreeable. I happen to be a nurse who has faith in G'd, but I would guess that my version isn't the same as yours and perhaps wouldn't meet the same criteria. Or maybe it would.....but it doesn't matter.

Nurses who are competent, who care for their patients well and respectfully, are the best nurses, regardless of whether they have religious faith. As has been said here, I too have come across nurses who spout religious ideology yet as NURSES have found them lacking. And others who would not fit your definition of having "G'd in them" but are superb clinicians.

So, no, we cannot agree on the idea that the best nurses are "with G'd".

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

I can't even wrap my head around the insensitivity of this comment…let alone the "Agreed" at the end--as if no rational person would not agree with your statements.

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anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

So does God sabotage the care given by nurses who are non-believers or something?

And why did so many believing Christians die in the past of diseases that are now treatable with modern medicine? Seems to me drugs and whatnot play a pretty big role.

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anyway from experience best nurses are made from the complete support of God. because some cases cant just be handle by just common experience of drug. a NURSE with GOD is all that make the difference. Agreed?

I think you are trolling the forums. This is the second post i see you posting something similar. Also you completely avoided questions in the previous topic you started.

Please remember the USA and other countries in the world are secular, and their citizens practice many different religions. Also nursing is no longer linked to convents or religious institutions like in the distant past. Nurses do not push their religious views on patients or coworkers, if a patient ask for a nurse to pray with them the nurse does as to satisfy the spiritual needs of the patient.

If you are not trolling then respond to the questions that have been asked to you...

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