The 10 Commandments for Healthcare Professionals

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I thought some of you would enjoy this article I just came across.

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2006/0605fea3.asp

Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
:chuckleHaha! I kind of like the no working on Sabbath thing. That means I never have to work another Sunday again-very nice, and I can just discharge all of my ICU patients on Saturday night! It's genious! I really don't see why/how that could be problematic!:uhoh3:

And of course, as I'm sure everyone on this board has, I went into nursing just for the money. Every day I think to myself "Self, it's a good thing I'm spending 45 minutes doing skin care on this patients behind so that I can get rich and retire early!"

Really, I'm just amazed. :banghead:

I'm amazed that people can't read this article and glean positive things from it. It's chock full of wonderful insights.

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I demand the article be renamed to "The 10 Commandments for Catholic Healthcare Professionals".

It'd be more accurate.

What good points it makes are tarnished and hidden by the slant.

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I'm amazed that people can't read this article and glean positive things from it. It's chock full of wonderful insights.

If you're Catholic it is.................for a Humanist Universalist Unitarian like myself, I find little inspiration in it.

Sorry if you are amazed with that.

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I demand the article be renamed to "The 10 Commandments for Catholic Healthcare Professionals".

It'd be more accurate.

What good points it makes are tarnished and hidden by the slant.

The link clearly says 'catholic', as well as the webpage. I don't mind if the moderators re-name the thread, I merely quoted the title of the article.

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If you're Catholic it is.................for a Humanist Universalist Unitarian like myself, I find little inspiration in it.

Sorry if you are amazed with that.

That's sad to hear and surprising, since I thought of you as a fairly insightful person with a capacity for understanding philosophical language.

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I am not Catholic and I enjoyed it! I did, however, question the "fertility is not a disease" quote and believe infertility comes from disease, thus, infertility can be a treatable disease. Apply the boat story to infertility and one could argue that many treatment options are comprable to the three boats God sent to help the man.

And, no, the Sabbath doesn't mean there should be no work on Sunday. That didn't even cross my mind as I read that section. My interpretation concluded that rest is vital to all and we should take care of ourselves physically and spiritually. Nurse burnout might actually drop as a result of this practice.

I also don't quite understand how extraordinary measures can be deemed as comprable to idolatry. Everyone has their own definition of what extaordinary measures are and no one is under the illusion that we can ever keep a body from ever dying.

Thanks for the article!

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That's sad to hear and surprising, since I thought of you as a fairly insightful person with a capacity for understanding philosophical language.

Sorry to disappoint you.

What you find "philospohical language", I find religious language. It's a religion I am not a part of and don't wish to be a part of.

Not that I can't agree with some of what's said there because my own personal moral code includes things such as not cheating insurance companies, being truthful and not murdering someone.

I just don't need religious mandates to dictate my day to day activities as a nurse. I don't believe "Happiness cannot be had without a loving relationship with God."

As I said before, I am UU and we believe the following, which is good enough for me, and I don't need 10 Commandments. Thanks for listening and I really don't want to highjack the thread, but was responding to your "I'm amazed............", perhaps you might have said "I'm amazed that Catholics and Christians......." rather than "people" because it's a big wide world out there with lots of people who don't subscribe to that faith. Anyway, again, I don't mean to highjack the thread.

There are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote:

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

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There are seven principles which Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote:

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Just wanted to second this. My family is UU (For those not in the know, UU has members with all sorts of beliefs, including, in my case, atheist). :up:

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seriously?? Health care professionals should not partake in giving someone contraceptives?? Oh yeah, I SO need MORE people on medicaid coming in to have their 5th child

But, to be fair, it's clearly a Catholic article and they believe birth control is wrong because they believe sex is only for procreation. (Or at least that's what they taught us when I was growing up. I have one foot on either side of Catholic/Protestant line so no one start throwing stones at me, here.)

all of the people that should be on birth control are not and vice versa. it's really messed up!

I'm sorry, but that's a tad bit faulty don't you think? Who exactly are you saying is on OCs that shouldn't be?

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I'm sorry, but that's a tad bit faulty don't you think? Who exactly are you saying is on OCs that shouldn't be?

I think I understand what she's saying here. The prologue to the movie Idiocracy explains it nicely:

Warning: The clip contains some crude language.

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Wow.

That has some wonderful meaning, if applied to your own life, but what made me spit up a bit was the fertility nonsense.

I am always fascinated by other people's religions, I can see the good and some self-righteous bad in a lot of it.

:saint:

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In vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, other forms of child manufacturing, and contraceptives all act to undermine the life-giving meaning that the reproductive act should have. The health care professional’s charge is the restoration of health and the elimination of disease; fertility is not a disease. Doctors, pharmacists, and other health care workers should not participate in these activities.

Respectfully, I think this is full of ****.

This is one of the many, many reasons why I left the Catholic church. Here, the church will call my efforts to treat my infertility as 'child manufacturing'--but they don't mind if their own priests moleste thousands of children.

Nice to know they have their priorities in order.

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