Posts by ScoobySnax

........nonscense do I have to post to reach the elevated hights of Jedi Master? Do you get a prize? and is any extra special knowledge confered on you? ....... <<< For me ?? oh really you shouldn't have......whats that you say? Minimus likes it with a what?

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Latest Watchtower Society News

by qua in

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there isn't any unless you have some (smile).

ScoobySnax

I think it was Colonel Mustard in the Library, with the dagger.

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surgery tomorrow

by kls in

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wednesday is the big day.i am going in for rotator cuff surgery and i am very nervous.i have lived in pain now for 6months not wanting to do this but the time has come.i am also going to have bone spurs dug out that have grown into the cuff.

the scarriest part is the pain ,i am in so much now and i know it will be worse.wish me luck and lots of pain killers.

kls

ScoobySnax

All the best for tommorow!! You'll come out the other side wondering why you didn't have it done earlier. Post-operative Pain control is excellent in most modern hospitals these days too.

scoob

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Latest Watchtower Society News

by qua in

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there isn't any unless you have some (smile).

ScoobySnax

My they have alot to say................

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Administering a Blood Transfusion.....D/F grounds?

by ScoobySnax in

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ok, after 10 years of being qualified, and setting up 100's of blood transfusions as a nurse, i wonder how the society would judge me.

personally i wouldn't take blood myself, but in my job if that is what is prescribed and the patients (99%) of them have consented, then it is my duty to follow medical directions, otherwise i would be professionally negligent in my care.

i have no problem with this as each patient makes an informed consent as to their treatment.. i wonder though, had i been active as a jw, whether this would be grounds for re-proof or even less likely d/f.

ScoobySnax

Just realised I'm getting off the subject here. waffling on.

Its not that I have any problem in myself with setting up blood for someone who chooses to have it. I just wondered how I stand in Jehovah's eyes and the societies for doing this. I'm inactive, so don't think it would really be a problem .Its probably a very simplistic question to ask here, and a daft one considering the nature of this forum. Maybe I'm just daft! I've read alot of what some have replied and it makes sense. Its not really a blood issue question, more a moral one based on convictions.

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Administering a Blood Transfusion.....D/F grounds?

by ScoobySnax in

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ok, after 10 years of being qualified, and setting up 100's of blood transfusions as a nurse, i wonder how the society would judge me.

personally i wouldn't take blood myself, but in my job if that is what is prescribed and the patients (99%) of them have consented, then it is my duty to follow medical directions, otherwise i would be professionally negligent in my care.

i have no problem with this as each patient makes an informed consent as to their treatment.. i wonder though, had i been active as a jw, whether this would be grounds for re-proof or even less likely d/f.

ScoobySnax

Oh Ray!!

For goodness sake man, you got me blubbing here! What kind words. I'd gladly look after you and anyone else here, I do it all the time. Sometimes I don't particularly like the person, but I have to be impartial in my care. Its just that sometimes I'm more "impartial" than other times.

I'll give you an example, in the week I went over to the next ward into a bay of 6 patients of elderly old women. As I walked in the nurses there were on a drug round and in the corner bed was an old girl calling out mostly nonscence. The nurse in charge of the ward there said to me, "she's doing my head in, all day she's been shouting out, I wish she'd shut up....can you give her her medication..." So I went and sat on this old girls bed and calmed her down, when she'd settled I asked her what was wrong and why she was calling out. She looked at me and said that she was worried that her son might come in and she wouldn't see him, that she couldn't find her glasses to see properly (they were on her head), that because of all the noise from her "hissing oxygen mask" she wouldn't be able to hear him, and because she was amongst 5 other old people he might not regonise her (like you wouldn't recognise your own mum)

This poor old girl had been worried all day, I told her that her glasses were right there on her head and helped her put them on, that once her nebuliser had finished, we'd be able to switch the oxygen off so she could hear properly, and that I'd call her son and wait with her till he came in, and that she was lucky to have a son that loved her enough to visit her.

I'd been so stressed on my own ward as its acute surgery and younger people, that I felt a bit stressed thinking that I was getting behind with my work sitting here talking with this old lady. I made the phonecall though and waited with her. Just before her son turned up, she lent across and grabbed my hand and said "You are the kindest young man I have ever met....please stay with me" Suddenly all that stress from my own ward and a 10 hour shift faded away.....this was what nursing is about. She was a bit confused and eccentric, but mainly she was just scared, and in a strange environment. I showed her the hand held nurse call system, and she whispered to me, I'm gonna hide this under my blankets here so I can call for you. See all them nurses getting cross with her, when really she was just frightened.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no angel, sometimes we get some people in and I want to bash them in rather than help them!!, but well you know. Something like that makes you understand.

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Administering a Blood Transfusion.....D/F grounds?

by ScoobySnax in

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ok, after 10 years of being qualified, and setting up 100's of blood transfusions as a nurse, i wonder how the society would judge me.

personally i wouldn't take blood myself, but in my job if that is what is prescribed and the patients (99%) of them have consented, then it is my duty to follow medical directions, otherwise i would be professionally negligent in my care.

i have no problem with this as each patient makes an informed consent as to their treatment.. i wonder though, had i been active as a jw, whether this would be grounds for re-proof or even less likely d/f.

ScoobySnax

Thanks. I'll try to take all what you said on board, especially BigTEX and Scully.

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Administering a Blood Transfusion.....D/F grounds?

by ScoobySnax in

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friends

ok, after 10 years of being qualified, and setting up 100's of blood transfusions as a nurse, i wonder how the society would judge me.

personally i wouldn't take blood myself, but in my job if that is what is prescribed and the patients (99%) of them have consented, then it is my duty to follow medical directions, otherwise i would be professionally negligent in my care.

i have no problem with this as each patient makes an informed consent as to their treatment.. i wonder though, had i been active as a jw, whether this would be grounds for re-proof or even less likely d/f.

ScoobySnax

See like I said, its a bit of a confusing clouded subject, likening it to selling tobacco is one thing. When does Jehovah deem it "standing against Him?" I guess if I was a good concientious JW I would neither, adminster a transfusion (get another colleague to administer the transfusion) and likewise in a store ask to be exept from selling tobacco.

Of course thats If I were following the Truth word for word.......whichever way you look at it, in my predicament I'm shagged. Why the hell is it so difficult to be a JW, so difficult to do what you think is right, and what is expected. I despair sometimes.