A friend of mine on a forum mentioned that she thought someone needed to have a deep faith in God to be a good nurse. Her argument was that with out a strong spiritual foundation someone won’t be able to be able to meet their patients spiritual needs. Is that even a nurses job?

I mean if you could provide that it wouldn’t hurt things but there are specialists in the field. Beyond that what if your  religion or lack there of makes the patient find you repugnant? Certainly an attempt to meet their spiritual needs could degrade the patients car in that case.

I dunno, as an atheist, I find the whole idea curious…

What do you think?

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people I’d like to tag with this question….

Small Town RN, May, Geena, Beth, REBIRTH, Jaxia, Nurse K, Keith, kim

Are you thinking about nursing? You should read a few nursing blogs to get an idea of what nursing is all about. While LPN Career.com is a great resource be sure to check some reports from nurses in the feild to. Here are some of my recommendations.

Crass-Pollination: An ER blog

Nurse K is just funny… I mean check thi sout from the other day.

Female patient with pain: Uh! Uh! Oh my God! Uh! Uh! God! Uh! Uh hhhhh Ohhhhh Uh!!!

Nurse: [Exiting room] God, it sounds like a bad porno in room 5, doesn’t it?

How could you not want to read a blog like that?

Digital Doorway

Keith writes in depth stuff as well as touching which is why I like it so much. He provides a good insight into nursing and I recommend it for any nursing student.

Emergiblog

Kims been a nurse for 30 years now and writes often, which is refreshing for nursing blogs. Personally like the recent post about the bs paper chase nurses have to do.

Jon writes….

I was working at a nursing home and we had an elderly women with diarrhea really bad. One morning I went in to dress her and found she was completely  covered in shit.  I am not sure ow she managed to do it but somehow the porr gal had crapped her bed at night and managed to move the poo around till it was up to her neck. The smell alone made me want to vomit… then I saw the carrots! I had to leave the room to compose myself.

From Steve…

I didn’t actually see this but it happened to my wife. We had just gotten married in the early 80’s and my wife was a brand new CNA. Her first job was at this nursing home here in Anaheim , she was so happy, ready to save the world!

The first week she’s there this little old man in a wheel chair calls her over. He calls out, “Miss come over here please” so she bends down to talk to him. Then he removes the blanket from his lap and SPLAT! He ejaculates all over her her face and mouth!

She quit immediately and went back to school so she could work in obstetrics…

From Amanda…

I was working in CCU and was making my rounds when I kept heard this awful slpat sound. Unsure where it was coming from I started looking in all the bays. Eventually I saw one of the older Alzheimer’s patients was the source of the noise. We had restrained him because he was attacking nurses so he was laying there coughing up loogies and spitting them straight up in the air. Where did that land? Of course right on his face….

I stood there for a stunned for a few seconds, hoping I wouldn’t end up his next target. Then as I as I stood there I was wondering how in the hell I was gonna get this cleaned up?

It made me retch just hearing the noises…

Anyways off I went to get some wash clothes to clean him up but when I came back I saw two other nurses working on it. They hadn’t seen me so I just slinked off…. obviously twos company threes a crowd right? ;O)

Samantha sent in this gross tid bit…

I work in ICU, and one night we got in this 32 year old with a GI bleed. He had abused ETOH for year and had esophageal varices. So the guy was NPO, vomiting bright red blood, and complaining about how thirsty he was. The GI doc entered his room to discover him drinking his own bloody vomit.