Futhering Education

[sayjay3]

My daughter is interested in becoming a RN. She choose nursing as a way to help people and this could come in handy when the GT arrives. She told me the other day that a sister in the car group posed a question to her. The question was if she did become an RN, how would she handle participating in hanging the bag for a blood transfusion and adminstering the IV. My daughter told this sister that she could not deny a patient thier medical treatment. While my daughter would not take blood, is it against Jehovah's will if she participates in hanging the bag or even adminstering the IV since this is part of her duties as a nurse? :ban_dance01:

[Jinnvisible]

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[Sketch]

While my daughter would not take blood, is it against Jehovah&#39;s will if she participates in hanging the bag or even adminstering the IV since this is part of her duties as a nurse? [/b]

Hello SayJay,

I knew more than a few nurses in Upstate NY (Albany-Schenectady area). Most were in cardiac care or ICU, but I met a few in the ERs too when I took patients in. Most hospitals will allow the nurses to get someone else (another nurse, or NP, or aide, depending on protocols) to hang the blood so the RN won&#39;t neccessarily have to hang blood.... changing out poop pots is another story...

[Anthony]

My daughter is interested in becoming a RN. She choose nursing as a way to help people and this could come in handy when the GT arrives. She told me the other day that a sister in the car group posed a question to her. The question was if she did become an RN, how would she handle participating in hanging the bag for a blood transfusion and adminstering the IV. My daughter told this sister that she could not deny a patient thier medical treatment. While my daughter would not take blood, is it against Jehovah&#39;s will if she participates in hanging the bag or even adminstering the IV since this is part of her duties as a nurse? :ban_dance01: [/b]

[b]<sup> At this he said to him: "Go in peace." Accordingly he went away from him for a good stretch of the land.
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[Candace]

...scores of them are physicians, even surgeons.
<div align="left">However, Witnesses&#39; religious understanding does not absolutely prohibit the use of components such as albumin, immune globulins, and hemophiliac preparations; each Witness must decide individually if he can accept these.[/b]

So theoretically, one could have quite a dilemma on their hands if they need to have surgery and find out that some members of the surgical team are also JW&#39;s. This definitely requires that one plan ahead and get everything in writing.

[Sketch]

Also, it is never your place to enforce your religious beliefs on someone else. Personally, I wouldn&#39;t have a problem hanging blood - but thats me and my experiences are different than others&#39;

[sayjay3]

Also, it is never your place to enforce your religious beliefs on someone else. Personally, I wouldn&#39;t have a problem hanging blood - but thats me and my experiences are different than others&#39;[/b]

I would like to thank you all for your commnets. My daughter appreciates them as well. One sister at the Kingdom hall told her this:

" If a person works in a ciagrette store, they are not the owner of the store. Thier duty is to give the customer what they want. In a movie store, a JW knows that violent movies are against Jehovah&#39;s standards, yet the JW must provide that customer with thier movies."

She does not own the hospital, she just does what the doctor tells her. :Smilie Clown:

[TheCook]

I understand what you mean. I worked with kids for a while and I had to help them do Christmas stuff and attend the celebration of "UN day" as they call it over here, as well as our day of celebrating the nation. That was a bit difficult at first, I had to search my conscience for a while before I got around to how I would handle those situations. Sure, it would have been easy just to ask an elder what to do (- hopefully they would not have given me a direct answer -) but I wanted to think it through myself. I think it felt better in the end to have come to a personal decision.

Also, I know b/s who work at hospital wards and homes for the elderly. They have the yearly problem with holiday decorations and such. So I know these are not easy problems, it can take a lot of conscience searching.