templeknight7

Hello everyone, these thoughts have fascinated me for a good while, another angle could be to try and guess, a collective imagination can acheive results that are much more interesting than reality Regards J

Thank you , our HR are always heavy when dealing with foreign staff and "incidents HR at your workplace has had reported to them" is a passive sentence to say the least, if we are to get picky.

I agree that English should be spoken to English speaking Patients but for a heavy handed HR response to too people just greeting each other in their own language away from clients is totally uneccessary.

I personally do not think it is rude I think it is just a stick that rascists use, or paranoia, I also think it may be illeagal for facilities to outlaw a cultures language at work just because they don't like it, I have learned some tagalog and the phillipino staff respect that "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela "

Your whole situation and experience may be different from ours, but I feel that you would have the right to ask for evidence of such a damming criticism. Patient satisfaction is ethereal but has also been studied and written about http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0600/p44.html In UK we are able to request a different supervisor in situations such as this the following link may suggest how this can be written into a supervision contract, if I was in your position I would certainly request to change supervisor, mostly they are educated and mature enough to understand that we can not all get on all the time. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CBAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aamft.org%2Fmembership%2FApproved%2520Supervisor%2FSample%2520Supervision%2520Contract.pdf&ei=-qLES4j1HZLc_Qb87LGgDw&usg=AFQjCNGbQ3Wrbh2dY2PS_i_jj36tkPXwjQ&sig2=6tp2dw28bSkxdtrdnXVcgw Best wishes

You know the answer to your dilemma, of course you must be honest, a) you cannot allow yourself to build a career on a lie, b) If your dishonesty is discovered before you own up, it will be much worse, c) Nursing is all about communication and trust.

Magandaga umaga, Please could I ask your opinion, Some of my English speaking colleagues are saying that it is very rude for Nurses from the Philippines to speak Tagalog around their non Tagalog speaking colleagues, I can understand why it is unacceptable to exclude patients but not why it is rude to speak ones own language in front of other staff, What does everyone else think ?

Hello All, This thread seems to almost answer my query which has two parts :- a) Does inappropriate or unnecessary oxygen therapy at end of life, (by this I mean O2 given in response to decreased saturation rather than distress), prolong a patients suffering ? b) Can hypoxia at end of life actually contribute to a more peaceful and comfortable death inasmuch as I remember being told that the effects of decreased O2 saturation, as experienced by high altitude pilots, can lead to a sense of intoxication and even precipitate feelings of a spiritual nature before leading to unconsciousness and an advance into coma ?