to start off with i am not a jehovah's witness but have come across this website through research on my essay, the reason why i ask for your information is that i have been given an essay based on a case study. I am a student nurse and need some help in getting the right information or at least knowing where to get that information from. to make this easier to understand i will show the case study that i have to base my essay on:
A 24 year old female has been admitted on to your ward with a fractured femur. following a road trafffic accident. when the patients haemoglobin level is discovered to be low it is decised to precribe a blood transfusion. dispite the risk of a low Hb being explained to the patient she emphatically refuses to give her consent for this treatment as she is Jehovah's witness
this is not a real case study but using this example what would be the patient's alternatives if any and what would be the proper procedure. any information would be usful and thanks for your time to read this
You won't get objective information in this site for your case study.
In all fairness, due to the fact that the person in question might be a sincere JW, please try to get objective information from a more pro-JW website.
Rachel...check out www.ajwrb.org has lots of info related to the blood issue and Jehovahs Witnesses. Also the very unfortunate stories of those who died becuase of the need for transfusions.
And yes we might be a bit biased, but I wouldn't let one of my children die because of a religious conviction. Plain and simple.
There is a 20% chance that she will accept the transfusion if you take her to the side and say: "We know that this is a conscience matter for Jehovah's Witnesses. If you want, we can give you the blood transfusion and no one outside this room will ever know."
The other 80% will die before they will accept the transfusion.
I'm also aware of an article written by the Watchtower Society, which describes a "hypothetical" situation where a Jehovah's Witness working in the medical field violates medical confidentiality by giving medical records to elders so they will know that a Jehovah's Witness had accepted blood. The result being that the Jehovah's Witness who accepted blood is Disfellowshipped and shunned.
Does anyone have a copy of this article for posting?
You won't get objective information in this site for your case study.
Did you read the link I posted? That was advice from medical personell on what treatment might be appropriate for an active jw. Can't get more objective than that.
The situation with jw;s reminds me of the communist countries behind the old iron curtain. Their own publicity was saying about how great everything was, and yet anybody else looking in could see the true picture of how bad things were. Who would ou approach for an objective veiwpoint, someone in the country who had only seen that and knew only what they had been told by the government about how good things were and how bad they were elsewhere, or somebody looking in from the outside with something to compare it to.
Looks like forum members got this covered well....
Good Job. everybody..
And hope your essay goes well Rachel...If you write it .. I wouldn't mind reading it here.. If you would like to share it... I think it would make a great read for us.
