NurseGuapo

Kiddo prepare to cry a lot during the first year it's a rite of passage. if you are the type of person to walk into a hospital as a fresh nurse and not cry at least once then you don't have the compasio for nursing... JMHO.... you are ok kiddo

OK... Personally I am pro-life. I think that it's unfortunate with all of the birth control methods available to women and also to men for birth control. As a nurse I believe it is my job to protect, serve and educate the patient. even if you disagree with the subject. If you want to avoid the possibility of having to work with a patient who wants one... avoid OB/GYN, Med/Surg and any clinical office setting. Now while abortion wouldn't be my choice, when it comes to medicine it's not ours to begin with. We have an obligation to educate our patients about all and any legal medical information available to them to them if they ask. We do this in a way that doesn't force our beliefs down their throat, and helps them to make educated decisions regarding their healthcare. If they as about what happens during an abortion we have an obligation to tell them about the procedure, tools used, complications and risks dependent on how many weeks they are at term, medications, and anesthesia and after care. While I don't believe it should be used as a regular form of birth control there are situations where they are necessary, ectopic pregnancies. Some high risk pregnancies where the doctors know that the child will unlikely make it to term of will fail to thrive or have serious heath problems. Also pregnancies that if taken to term with kill the mother. Aborton is a fart of life, women have been getting them for thousands of years and i would rather it be done in a safe hospital than someone's kitchen. If we don't protect the woman's right to chose we will have the problem they are currently having in the Philippines, where the catholic church has persuaded the government to make it illegal and a woman died last year from an ectopic pregnancy in her tube and it ruptured and she died. Leaving a husband and children to grieve and suffer. The doctors let her die in horrible pain and didn't do anything to help because they were afraif of losing their license. I'm pro life personally, but I respect the need for safe pro choice ptions for those who don't share my beliefs. Good luck with your decision. Just remember. We are nurses to help ppl in this world to have the best healthcare options possible.

I believe you misunderstand. She had her indiscretion two years before she earned her RN. She was documented sober from the time of her DUI since... I'd like to add that it's remarkable to be able to do that. Most people with an alcohol problem relapse long before that. The BON were incredibly unfair. The expectation of beyond excessive check in's and bimonthly drug tests, were not only oppressive but cumbersome to manage, It's not like she missed multiple appts. She was cooperating. One distraction/pregnancy and she gets her license suspended. The other one steals from the hospital and gets nothing... That's beyond unfair. It's not like the arrest was after she got her license, and then got arrested. DUI's are wrong but her punishment was more severe than some rapists, thieves, murderers. I'm not even joking...