Religion Needed to be a Good Nurse?

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We just covered a spiritituality/religion lesson in our BSN course and the instructor (religious) came out and said good nurses had spirituality and would be there for whatever spiritual needs the PT had. I understand the benefits of PTs being able to express their own spiritituality, but not being spiritual myself, I always assumed this could happen without me losing my own identity/belief system by praying with the PT. There are professionals in this area afterall and it's not as if nursing doesn't have enough on its plate already.

So the question is, does the nursing career, with all it's specialized education and skills, also view good nurses to be spiritual/religious or is this instructor taking some liberties with the topic?

I agree.

You know, I did receive quite the lecture one day regarding working on Sundays. Amazingly, he was my ICU patient and yes... it was SUNDAY!

What would he have me do? Leave him to fend for himself? Sheesh...

:rotfl: Did you ask him?:rotfl: I've never had an issue like that come up:chuckle

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:rotfl: Did you ask him?:rotfl: I've never had an issue like that come up:chuckle

Well in all actuality, not even most Christians celebrate Sunday as a holy day. (Try telling a ton of them that watching football isn't holy on Sunday) Judiasm respects SATURDAY as a holy day, but Christian's claim to Sunday was the NT example of gathering on the first day of the week. It is the continuation of a practice and an example, not a sacrament.

But I know that's an aside.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Well in all actuality, not even most Christians celebrate Sunday as a holy day. (Try telling a ton of them that watching football isn't holy on Sunday) Judiasm respects SATURDAY as a holy day, but Christian's claim to Sunday was the NT example of gathering on the first day of the week. It is the continuation of a practice and an example, not a sacrament.

But I know that's an aside.

~faith,

Timothy.

Aren't they supposed to according to Leviticus or something? Fortunately most religious people I know are practical. I worked with a lot of muslims who worked Fridays, Jews who worked Saturdays and Christians who worked Sundays. That's just the reality of nursing eh?

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Aren't they supposed to according to Leviticus or something? Fortunately most religious people I know are practical. I worked with a lot of muslims who worked Fridays, Jews who worked Saturdays and Christians who worked Sundays. That's just the reality of nursing eh?

That's just 2005 haha...gotta have nurses, policeman, fireman, ambulance drivers, pharmacies, and toilet paper haha

wonder when the mailman will catch on?

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I agree that comment was completely inappropriate.

But for the record, it didn't come from me!

I would never have as deep a discussion as I've had with you if I didn't think that you weren't 1) intelligent, 2) understand your own point of view enough to argue it (and frankly, you can't do that with ignorant adherence to a philosophy.)

~faith,

Timothy.

Oh, I know it didn't come from you. I'm just adding it to my list of names I've been called! LOL If people keep loving me to that degree, I'm going to have a mega inferiority complex. :chuckle Heh... actually, I won't.

It's just that when the mud slinging starts, it usually starts getting ugly pretty fast and I'm not going to participate if that continues.

I hadn't responded a whole lot to what you have been writing because I didn't want the thread shut down. However, I have an idea so I'll PM you.

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:rotfl: Did you ask him?:rotfl: I've never had an issue like that come up:chuckle

Usually I would never permit someone to stand there and lecture me on what I was doing wrong according to their religion in that kind of setting (not talking about someone making special requests due to their faith) but I think my mouth was hanging open and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was like the proverbial train wreck, I had to wait to see the ending.

He assumed I was Christian and he just didn't see why I would accept a job where working Sundays was part of the requirements.

I should have asked him if he'd prefer a bunch of atheists work on him instead. Oye vey Heh... little did he know a bunch of atheists WERE working on him! LOL Sweet justice.

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Well, if the past 5-6 pages are any indication, this thread is still popular, and there's been a lot of passionate and lively discussion. It's threatening to become heated again, so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze play nice and avoid debating one another as though you're appearing on the (now-defunct) CNN show Crossfire. Thank you!:)

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Well, if the past 5-6 pages are any indication, this thread is still popular, and there's been a lot of passionate and lively discussion. It's threatening to become heated again, so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeze play nice and avoid debating one another as though you're appearing on the (now-defunct) CNN show Crossfire. Thank you!:)

LOL... I never saw "Crossfire" so could you explain that in terms of Ghost Whisperer or Smallville? :chuckle

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For now, anyway. What happens in a few years when Christianity is no longer the majority religion?

This is why I think it is SOOOOO very important to keep religion out of politics.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm

For anyone that isn't familiar with ReligiousTolerance.org, it is one of the very best sources around for religious issues. It is about as neutral as one can get. I don't care what atheist or Christian website one goes to, there is a twist to it favoring either Christians or atheists. This site isn't like that, it is owned by both atheists and Christians as well as several other beliefs. It's a very impressive site. I refer to it all the time. If I want to know more about a specific belief, this is the site I go to. It's just very well written and extremely informative.

I visited this site and I was HIGHLY impressed with the vast amount of information available on different religions, essays, and such.

But then I went to the Forum and oh my goodness...there's no wonder you have been called so many names!!! These people were ridiculous. Very hateful posts towards one another, unmoderated. Not what I expected from the initial impression of the site. Athiests attacking Christians, Christians attacking atheists, rep vs dem vs communist, calling Americans members of the Taliban...kind of ironic to me that the website is named religious tolerance

:rotfl:

makes this post look like talking about the weather over afternoon tea.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

I have to commend folks here. I have enjoyed reading this lively debate which members so far today have been mindful to self mod. Debates and discussions are wonderful. They are even more wonderful when they remain respectful, despite differences of opinons. Good job, folks. We've strayed a little, but needed to at times in order to get at the meat and potatoes as to why religion is so dear for some and not for others. In relation to nursing, we bring who we are to the bedside. Sometimes it is good to define what we bring to the table and how it may or may not impact the care we render to our patients. Let's keep up the intelligent discussion.

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Wanna make bets on what would happen if I referred to Christians as ignorant? :chuckle Shall I try and see what happens?

No worries, I wouldn't stoop so low.

True.

However, you resonded approprirated to that one post. So I didn't qualify that as a slamfest, just one slam. :rotfl:

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Yes, Tweety.

Moving forward.

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