EMSnurse411

I had a husband and wife team of coworkers arrested on the floor by DEA for drug diversion.

I applied for nursing informatics job and one of the interviewers in the group of three asked me one question and he said later that he made his decision to hire me based purely on how I answered that one question. The question was " Do you believe there's life on other planets?" My answer was "Well, logically and scientifically statistically if only 1% of 1% of the visible galaxies have one planet in the Goldilocks zone andonly 1% of 1% of those is capable meaning has atmosphere and other needed elements to sustain life and 1% of 1% of those has elements of life such as plants or even a single cell organisms, since I assume your question his asking about intelligent sentient life and not just elemental life. 1% of 1% of those planets would still be millions if not billions of planets and it would be extremely egotistical to assume that if there are millions or billions of planets that would technically be capable of sustaining intelligent sentient life that we are the only planet that it actually happened on." He told me afterwards that the reason I ask this was to see how I handled being asked and absurd question that I was not prepared for since the job required teaching and there would be probably a number of incidents where you got ask you question that we were not prepared for. He told me afterwards that the reason I ask this was to see how I handled being asked and absurd question that I was not prepared for since the job required teaching and there would be probably a number of incidents where you got ask you question that we were not prepared for.

I was fresh out of nursing school but had been a medic for 5-6 years and LTACs were a new thing. I was working at one since I had the medic experience and there was this lady who had severe abd cancer and for "comfort" the physician did a full pelvic evacuation and removed everything from diaphragm down. We did daily dressing changes packing the space (opening was weirdly retro peritoneal) and we had to keep the spine moist. And slowly the cavity began to rot and fill with foul smelling drainage. I am not easily swayed by smells but this was the worst thing I ever smelled. This is the one patient that made me go into hospice (from ER to hospice in under 6 months) and because with every dressing change (even with conscious sedation) she would say "Por Favor Matame" ("Please Kill Me") this was the reason I so strongly believe in physician assisted death with dignity.

Pas I stated before that is not the issue its when the person asks me to say something (has happened several times) or asks what prayer I was to say or what I want to pray about and then that usually leads to bigger issues with whether I an saved

How was I anti-catholic? I just quoted what several of the staff had said to me when I asked if they would mind praying with the patient while I did their dressings or something. In small towns where everyone works together and goes to the same churches with the people they work with you would be surprised at the discrimination. And actually it's not illegal. The U.S. Government has granted churches, religious schools and religious hospitals the right to discriminate based on religion. The hospital could fire me because I am atheist and the only reason they don't is I went to catholic school with the chief of staff

Ok then I will ask what you believe to be the issue with faking prayer. Which I do not consider just bowing head and holding hand to be doing but I would be interested in hearing your expert advice on faking prayer. And I think you have a serious issue if you comment on an open conversational thread and then are rude to the other people who respond and ask for clarification. Wouldn't you assume that if they didn't know what the risk was then I wouldn't either. are you religious?

It seems like people are not reading my post where I stated that I have no problem bowing my head and holding hands it's the number I times where the person will look at me and say something like "and who would you like to pray for" or "now what prayer would you like to say"

I saw it posted by nurses rock which is part of or put on my all nurses.com

Interesting, to me anyway, at one point you also paraphrased a quote I love from Einstein's Religion and Science (an article published in the NYTimes in 1930): "Man's plight would, indeed, be sad if he had to be kept in order through fear of punishment and hope of rewards after death." Man did that one nurse scare me! She really believed everyone would commit murder if they could not have to go to hell. She didn't believe me when I told her that I just thought it was not a nice thing to do so I wouldn't do it ever.

The only hospitals in my area that will hire you without a BSN are religious.

Wow I saw this got posted on Facebook and the people were not very nice and we're assuming I would abandon a patient because they are religious so let me say first that if possible I will sit and hold hands and let someone pray. What I was talking about was when it became more than that. When they start asking me what prayers I want to say or who I want to include in their prayer for salvation. It's those situations where I try to excuse myself and get them a nun or a nurse who is religious. and the Title was a play on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and the King James Bible.

I wondered it anyone would get the homage to Mark Twain. (Ok so I am an atheist nerd). Luckily, I guess, I was raised catholic and went to catholic school so if I have to fake it I can. Our hospital has prayers paged over head several times a day (5 or 6 I think) and I usually ignore it but I really realized how bad it can be when my father was a patient and they were wheeling him down the hall to surgery and they announced prayer time and proceeded to start reciting the 23rd Psalm so as he is heading in the OR you hear echoing in the hallway "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil" it actually scared my very religious father (we had already had a spooky occurrence on the way to hospital where as we were stopped at a light in front of the Bassillica, The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, a long line of cardinals passed in front of the car at the same time there was an error on the radio station and the song 'sold at the Grundy county auction' seemed to get stuck playing and repeating the line "Gimme a sign, gimme a sign, gimme a sign" so he was already spooked then to have that psalm recited as he went in. Plus he had found out right before his surgery to remove colon cancer that his mother was diagnosed with colon cancer so that psalm was the icing on the crazy spooky cake)

I have gotten the devil worship thing before. What I hate the most is the "well then you have no morals because morals come from God". Here is what I told someone the other day when they said that "If the only thing that keeps you from murdering and torturing people is your fear of Hell and not because it's just wrong and you wouldn't want it done to you or a family member then I am really worried about your mental health". They proceeded to tell me that everybody would kill people if they could get away with it and not go to Hell. I am staying away from that person they scare me (and I don't scare easily I used to work in a prison with maximum security and death row inmates and the way this nurse said if it weren't for fear of hell that she would kill people really freaked me out)

I have to tell you something my mom said once (even though she is not a nurse but it tells you my genetics and how I have to watch what I say ). She was at work and normally answered her phone "ABC Company this is Susan how can I help you?" Someone walked by her desk and said " Susan can you hold this?" At the same time her phone rang and she answered her phone "ABC Company This is Susan can I hold you?" She said the person on the other end of the line was like "...uummmm no thank you...I think..."

I have worked in ER for a lot of my career and although it was a small town our policy was if the person drove themselves to ER and they wanted pain medication or any medication that could alter their driving they would have to either wait till driver arrived, hand over their car keys or take meds in pill form with them if they are ready to leave now and take when they got home.