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Someone in the medical field is asking about mixing their personal beliefs with their duties in caring for the sick.
Would you want a fundy looking after you if you were in a hospital?
2007-09-04 05:44:39 · 69 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
youre right lol c...she's probably just a cna anyway...but i gotta say...her question did frighten me
2007-09-04 05:50:20 · update #1
I'm sorry to tell you fundies..but patients dont ask nurses or doctors for prayers...TRY AGAIN
She is deluded
2007-09-04 06:02:11 · update #2
i'm with u jimmy d
2007-09-04 06:19:15 · update #3
It is very hard to seperate their beliefs and their expected medical care sometimes. Such a person should relieve himself from treating that person.
2007-09-04 05:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by ~ Floridian`` 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
No as it stands it does not frighten me.
If they were a good nurse and followed the hospital's procedures, I don't think I would mind.
Other than this girl is wasting time rather than caring for other patients I do not see what is wrong with this question.
State of mind is important in the healing process, and relaxing the patient by responding to their request for something that will help them relax is not a bad thing.
Prayer has been shown to have a positive effect when people who believe in it pray and know that people are praying for them. You and I know that this can also be achieved though meditation and sugar pills, but you use what is at hand.
If she was going in and making patients pray with her that would be very different. If she was substituting prayer for approved medical procedures then her feet should not touch the floor.
2007-09-04 05:55:34 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, first of all, there's no way to know if the person asking that question is a fundamentalist or not. She may not even be religious but just wants to satisfy a patient making a request. I know a lot of people who, if asked to pray for someone, will say that they will but they're not religious.
Second, if the patient asks for prayer, they obviously don't care what the nurse is like. They want prayer, so maybe they're religious, too.
And third, just because someone asks you to pray for them and just because you pray, doesn't mean you're a fundamentalist. People of all religions pray.
Why did you draw such conclusions about this nurse?
2007-09-04 05:51:28 · answer #3 · answered by lmsleigh1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm as hardcore an atheist as it's possible to be and insist that any medical treatments I recieve are based on good solid science. Nevertheless, even I can appreciate that prayer brings comfort to believers. A nurse who is willing to pray with patients who request it is a good thing. The world is filled with people who are entitled to their own opinions and I cannot see how a little human kindness is a threat to you, or to your values.
I would be happy to recieve care from "carobygirl." I'm sure she is a professional and is fully qualified to do her job. I'd never ask her to pray with me, but I'll bet she's a great comfort to all her patients.
I just remembered: about forty years ago, I actually baptised a dying man in the back of an ambulance because he requested it. Even though I'm an atheist, I did it anyway, because I knew it would provide spiritual comfort. The man died two hours later, in surgery. Sometimes, being a professional means we have to act outside the narrow limits of our job description.
2007-09-04 06:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what a "fundy" is...but I think that if your personal beliefs are going to influence your work, especially while you're working at a hospital, then you need to get a different job.
I mean, let's just say that a non-religious person worked there, and they decided to go around and talk about how "there is no God" to all of the dying patients...not too many people would like that, now would they?
It's not the best example, but noone really likes someone else pushing beliefs onto them. Noone is saving the world by preaching about God to everyone they come across, you're just an annoyance to those that don't believe the same way that you do..People are set in their ways and can choose to believe how they want...the best thing anyone can do is respect that.
2007-09-04 05:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by Jess 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Seems like if a patient asked if a nurse would pray with them, why not? (If the nurse would like to). I know I would never ask such a thing, nor would I accept an offer to it, but why not let other ppl do what floats their boat? Fundy's as nurses wouldnt scare me unless they weren't doing their job and relying on their beliefs to make me feel better. Then i'd be more pissed than scared
2007-09-04 05:51:33 · answer #6 · answered by Tom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's a fundy? But Such A type of person that you mentioned above did look after me in the hospital.. That person got people in the ward to be afraid of me.. for some reason the person believed me to be dangerous. Yet I'm no more dangerous than a marshmellow! Result I'm living in a place with absolutely no privacy.. it's not picnic being monitored all the time. Someone saying exactly what I'm doing. My Landlady tried to deny me being monitored but I got the truth from the Police! The Police wouldn't lie would they?
No where else was my privacy invaded as much as here yet it looks like a place thats private cause its a farm I'm on! But there's wires on posts, transformers.. more than necessary for a small farm. Also what's the blue wires for if they aren't for monitoring?
The only time I heard the word fundy before was in the Financial field at AVC0!
Obviously that's not what you ment!
2007-09-04 05:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not everyone who prays is a "fundy," and the asker of the question doesn't seem to be to be expressing any personal beliefs. Maybe she was asking for a good prayer for her patient because she is not in the habit of praying herself. Her patient asked to pray. Do you think this request of a suffering person should be greeted with, "This is a place of science. There is no God and prayers will not help you get better, only good medicine will?" Morale is very important to the healing process; that is a scientific fact. Patients who feel comfortable and have a positive outlook recover faster. A good nurse should honor her patient's request to pray, just as she should honor a request to read a book aloud, or to dim the lights, or to give the patient a shoulder to cry on. A nurse should respect the patient's beliefs, whether or not he or she shares them. Patients should certainly not be forced to pray, but neither should they be denied prayer if they request it.
2007-09-04 06:10:48 · answer #8 · answered by Miss Angora 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the person was just asking for a prayer, not trying to mix beliefs with medical care. That would be more like forcing a prayer from their religion onto the patient or recommending a prayer in place of one a patient rec. personally I don't pray & don't believe in religion, but if the patient asked me to pray w/them i might do it just to appease them not because I believe it. All in the name of taking care of the patients & trying to make them happy & feel in good care
2007-09-04 05:50:54 · answer #9 · answered by all4equines 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Their primary concern should be in health and well being of the patient.
However, this specific person was requesting info for handling prayer if the patient REQUESTED it. That is not pushing a belief, since the patient asked for it.
2007-09-04 05:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Johnny 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I looked at the question and I don't know why it would frighten anyone. She is asking how she should pray for the patients who request her to pray with them. . .that is called compassion and something a nurse needs to have. I have worked in hospitals where the patients had no visitors and nurses throwing a fit anytime the patient asked for something. . .to hear a nurse who has compassion for her patients is wonderful.
2007-09-04 05:53:49 · answer #11 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋