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Are there any other atheist nurses out there? How do you handle how religious healthcare is? I don't feel comfortable praying with a patient but I will find someone who is comfortable but the minute I say "I am not comfortable praying with you but ...

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 belie...

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...

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 chu...

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 is...

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 pray...

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 punishme...

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 a...

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...

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 an...

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 w...

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 drive...

I have left clinical nursing for the most part. I only work part time and work in the medical technology field full-time. I have sat and faked it before but I have gotten caught up in situations where I have agreed to pray and then the person eithe...

It must be local to my area because I have worked at several hospitals and if a male was doing the cath a female had to be in the room. I never said two females just the fact that if a male is doing anything in the genital area then a woman must be ...

I was working in the ER and we had an EMT student with us and a patient was brought in with a gunshot and he looked at the EMT student and said "am I gonna die" and the student looked him in the eyes and replied "well frankly it doesn't look good" an...

I had a doctor write "The patient is suffering from extreme lower extremity hebbie jebbies"

I have been a nurse for 18 years and a paramedic for 20 and I know I have made a few errors. I now work in the EMR industry and train nurses to use our system. We have developed the system to try and avoid errors but they still happen. You cannot ...

The reason for the female/female policy was that if a male were to cath a female there had to be a female chaperone in the room and then we were short 2 people while the pt was being cathed. So for example when I worked Ortho and on noc shift we had...

As a female nurse I understand your quandry. Since you have to have a female chaperone its probably easier for the female to do it and for you to do something to assist the female coworker. Most hospitals I have worked at the patient care tech/crit...