Nursing exam question on JW blood beliefs

adjusted knowledge

I had a similar question on my NCLEX exam for my nursing license. In the rapid changing beliefs of JWs what is the correct answer?

We can have any colour mm,s except the red ones . You can have every part of the blood separated but not combined. Hail to lord Morris and Let for the proper godly understanding of our consumption of blood.

Phizzy

JW's would accept Normal Saline and Epoetin Alfa.

Neither would save their life if they had "multiple trauma injuries".

Saline may delay death a little, EPO only works after ten days or so by making the body produce more red cells.

Vidiot

Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and bread...

...but no sandwich.

DesirousOfChange

In the rapid changing beliefs of JWs what is the correct answer?

The healthcare professional better know because the JW most likely has no idea what is acceptable. And now wonder............it changes so much, who could keep it all straight?

problemaddict 2

Its one or 4 (probably 4 because of how EPO works as somone mentioned). Platlets, Plasma, RBC's, and WBC's are all considered "main components". All the various components of those components however are perfectly ok. You can eat pork, but not eat pepperoni, and definitely not have pizza!

SAHS

All medical doctors take the famous Hippocratic Oath, which requires them to uphold specific ethical standards. But if any doctor, or nurse, is unwilling to adhere to those standards, then, well, why bother?

Medical practice is supposed to, um, save lives. But if the medical profession ends up having to kowtow to the parochial mandates of extreme fundamentalist cults such as the Watch Tower, then all the efficacy of the accumulated scientific knowledge goes right out the window.

But in our modern enlightened and civilized society, such purely superstitious behaviour – as apparently interpreted by certain self-serving pseudo-religious outfits – really has no place, and should be discarded along with all other such relics of pre-homo-sapient society.

OrphanCrow

SAHS: .... if the medical profession ends up having to kowtow to the parochial mandates of extreme fundamentalist cults such as the Watch Tower, then all the efficacy of the accumulated scientific knowledge goes right out the window.
But in our modern enlightened and civilized society, such purely superstitious behaviour – as apparently interpreted by certain self-serving pseudo-religious outfits – really has no place, and should be discarded along with all other such relics of pre-homo-sapient society.

Yet, in the face of all that, the world now has to deal with the establishment of Blood Management (or PBM, depending on context). A medical discipline (endorsed by WHO as the "golden standard of care") that unabashedly claims "Holy Scripture" as the ethical basis for their approach:

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6214938441809920/basics-blood-management-dr-petra-seeber-dr-aryeh-shander-inaccuracies-myth

darkspilver

Medical practice is supposed to, um, save lives.

Charlie Gard.

It's complicated, and sad.

In some ways the more medical science advances, the more difficult it can become.

Nimble duck

I'd like to see this question on the nursing exam.

Is it okay to browse through Jehovah's Witnesses patient records, whether these patients are in hospital or not, to discern if these patients are compliant with the Watchtower governing body latest dogma on blood transfusion?

Is it okay to report to your elders the names of any Jehovah's Witnesses who have information in their records indicating that they have accepted or will accept blood products disallowed by Watchtower dogma?