A nurse in Britain was recently suspended for offering to pray with/for a patient. The patient said no. The nurse said 'Ok, no problem' and never offered again.
Has the world gone mad? Hell, nursing and caring for the sick has always been tied up with Christianity. There is no big deal about what this nurse did. She was professional.
If people find it offensive if being asked whether they would like to pray, then soceity is even more pathetic than i imagined.
Oh no, I got asked if wanted to pray, I need counselling. It's soooo offensive. Hell, I'll sue the insensitive religious buggers, that's what I'll do.
Simply put, we can't be too afraid to ask.
It doesn't matter what profession we are in. Everyone's so bloody worried about offending someone. Well, I'm offended that I can't ask. Hell, if the patient gets offended, too bad. Say 'Sorry, I won't ask again. I didn't mean to offend'.
Patients have rights as well. They have the right to appreciate what we do for them, and not take offense when none is intended.
Hell, any patient who decides to take offense is probably looking for an excuse to stir.
Patients need to show a little common sense and tolerance as well.
No one should ever be 'deeply offended' if asked in a non forceful or persisting, nagging way.
Get a grip you politico correcto's. A nurse should be able to offer if they feel it appopriate.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Religion vs Nursing
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sick of Management
Aim of management - To get something for nothing
Aim of nursing staff - To give the best with nothing
From my first days as a new graduate nurse to many years later, all I've ever seen is senior management making life miserable for those that do the caring.
A classic example: Happened in my first ten months working. The ward was very short staffed and bed numbers increased from 25 to 30 beds. The charge nurse wanted to recruit this student nurse who had been working her electives there for the past four weeks. She was a great student who worked well and the staff liked. When the charge nurse wanted to employ her, the big bosses said no. The charge nurse (best I've ever worked under) quit as she was sick of not being able to do what was not just right, but safe, for the ward staffing level.
Within one month of her resigning, the student nurse (now a graduate nurse) was getting work on a 'on call' basis, all the time. This happened because the understaffed and overworked nurses in the ward kept calling in sick. The big management types realised that the extra workload with those five extra beds was too much for the already overworked nurses. They eventually employed the newly qualified nurse that the now resigned charge nurse wanted to.
Result - One great charge nurse lost. More anger/frustration at management.
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