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Nursing: Reliving of Christian Values

Nursing is to help or transform individuals to be in a healthy status utilizing Christian

valuesin the doing of safe care practices, leading and managing care procedures and solving

unsolved health problem through research.

Many patients are in suffering due to stresses of various origins. Many clients suffer

emotional pain, fear, mockery, condemnation. They became hopeless and they believe that

there is no more tomorrow. They tried to start a new life but a new life is not easy for cancer

patients, for AI! patients, for lupus and other terminal cases. "#irchoff, $%%$&. 'eal

nursing is showing them genuine care( making them believe that )esus is there inside the

room accompanying a caring nurse who is there ready to be an advocate, ready to accept and

understand and assist them. This will give the patient peace, less stress, more hope and

possible health restoration. *od has a way of transforming clients through the nurses.

Nursing is associated with the care and concern given by )esus to humanity. )esus

gave his life and blood to free us from sin and suffering. Nursing is a sacrifice+doing an

enormous task to help and sustain the life of those in agony because of sickness. Nurses who

see intrinsic value are shown to be vulnerable to self+sacrifice in their inclination to work for

the good of their patients, at the epense of themselves "-ask, ), $%%/&. Nursing is bringing

back life. It is life giving, life restoring, with the aid of the divine providence. very sweat

that nurses gave to every patient that they served and saved is associated with life giving.

Mad mob did mockery to )esus but 0e was silent. 0e took their contempt with

calmness and serenity. In the life of a nurse, there are in1ustices and unfairness but the nurses

continue to work and etend help. Ma1ority of the nurses are seldom given opportunity to

have a good salary, yet they do wholeheartedly the doctors2 orders. !ometimes in caring for

one critical patient, five+doctor specialists are assigned( helping one another brainstorming

and each would give orders to 1ust one nurse. The nurse naturally does all the orders coming

from these specialists. The doing of these various procedures coming from specialists must

call for a very special nurse who should know the art of management and leadership and is an

epert of doing everything to carry the orders of five or more specialists. 0owever, the case

mentioned is 1ust for one patient. More and more patients nowadays are assigned to one nurse

only.

3ithout )esus it is impossible to survive and sustain energy to help the patients hurdle

the difficulties of ailment with varying healing procedures. The nurses do the caring and

treatment procedures for the poor, for the dying, for the old, and for the very young ones.


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Nurses too are carrying a cross( they do multitudes of tasks. The art of managing helps them

in prioritizing things, delegating things, and doing time management. They smile, show

patience and offer sacrifice "4tiyaga5& even in the midst of voluminous orders and works.

Nurses are like the son of *od, they serve to save lives. 3hy6 It is because of the love for

duty and service. The cross of uplifting pain, doing so many procedures that call for epertise

and to prevent errors are all borne by nurses. Nurses are carrying the cross of daily duty yet

they seemed to be contented and happy at times. 7ne nurse said, 4Thegreatest gift in my

profession is seeing dying patients survived, got healed, picked up their belongings and been

discharged alive and kicking. (Nurse A, 3/2/2!"#$

There are several reasons why a nurse gives her services. The goal of every nurse is

to make people live. The 8hrist+centered 8olleges of Nursing give skill, knowledge and

attitude to nurses to enable them to support life. !ometimes nurses felt crushed by the cross

they carry( the doctors bullying them, the lack of safety protocols, the complaints of the

uneducated significant others accompanying the patients and the moral tortures from having

errors at times. In addition, the way of epressing guidance and mentoring by members of the

health team is horrible and demeaning( lowering self esteem and degrading nurses. Though

times have changed, nurses continue to be an oppressed group as they have eperienced

repeated, widespread and systematic in1ustice under a patriarchal system by physicians,

administrators, and marginalized nurse managers. "ong, et.al, $%99& 0owever nurses

endured and have weathered these things.

A nurse with 8hristian values is regarding her day to day duty as a 1ourney with the

:ord. It is an everyday struggle not to commit errors while caring for patients. There are

times in their lives that they are novice. It is a long way for a nurse to become an epert in her

field from being novice. At times, nurses also falter, they fail. 7nly the understanding of *od

and the belief and valuing of 0im becomes the support for nurses. The nurse who has a

personal relationship with *od is motivated, primarily through a sense of gratitude to *od

and 0is loving act of salvation. To respond, with compassion and care, to the needs of all

people "!helly 9;;


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Nurses have active role in *od2s mission. 3ith increasing evidence that religious

commitment appears to have some health benefits "Matthews 9;;=&, nurses need to ensure

that they give particular focus to spiritual care of clients. The role of nurses in caring for the

sick is very vital. Nurses can make or unmake the healing of patients because of the

ecellence and worth of care they can offer. They troubleshoot and propose the best care

with the so called evidenced based nursing practices which all originate and are anchored in

research. They are imbued with problem solving skills to truly assist, give relief, comfort

and to truly give concern to men, women and children. 'esearch is a means to make ecellent

care. 3ellness is the intention for all evidenced based practices steered by nurses.

4%iyaya ang nurses.5 There are challenges of >uitting because of low salary and

volunteerism for year before appointment for a 1ob with a salary of $/% pesos only per day. It

is like crucifying the nurses. 0owever, because of the training for service and :7? for the

profession, nurses never >uit. Nursing is an epression of love to patients. The reason why

the 8hristian nurse will want to serve, in love, for fellow humans are summed up in I )ohn


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Another nurse told one patient whose wife died of cancer, 4)eath is the start of

resurrection, it is a reminder to continue to die and have a ne life ith od. 'es at the

beginning there is shattering of hope, but it is also a rise from death of sin as they said

toards a life of happiness ith od. (atient %, #/"/2!"#.$Nurses give hope and share

guiding light started by Nightingale even to the families and relatives of dead loved ones.

Thompson "9;;


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As patient )oanna was about to go home, they discovered that her ordeal is not yet

over( there were side effects. 8T scan again was undertaken and the tumor has grown larger.

The child was opened up again. 8hemotherapy was done. The mother felt so hopeless. At

times she epressed her fears and anieties to Nurse mma. Nurse mma embedded with

8hristian values said, 40hildren are not our on. od can take them anytime. )o not be

scared if she dies. 1alk to od, prayers say hat is in your heart. &(Nurse mma, 2/2!"3 &. It

was amazing after three months of thorough cares, prayers child )oanna walked again and got

healed.

This is another case to prove that nurses are *od2s messenger and are bearers of the

words of the :ord. This is a case of a mother who almost lost hope, was hospitalized because

of etreme sadness and felt that life is not worth living because of her losing a son in that

$%%< !uperferry tragedy. 0er son was no longer found by the rescuers when it eploded

burning half of the boat with total of /< missing passengers. There was an unending search(

there has been no closure because the body could not be found. !he was told by her sister, a

nurse that, 4Ihope you ill live again. 'our son has to say goodbye. 5 am sure your son

missed you. 6ife is neither mine nor yours. 1here are many things to learn and so many

things to do. 6ife is not ours. 7here he is no he found ne friends, here spirits live, no

one there can die. 5 kno he is proud of you. 8e is en*oying life until you or 5 can come.

lease ake up and en*oy life. 'our son and all of us can only find peace and real happiness

ith od.(Nurse %, 3/ 2#/2!!$.

*od must have his way of transforming and I believe that the nurses are instruments

to this plan of *od. Nursing is telling us to restore faith and get strength from 0im. Nurses

imbued with 8hristian values are the secret weapons of *od the Almighty. Nursing is a

1ourney of faith. It is offering care. :et every patient feel the kind of love and concern, that

care and compassion. Most terminal and dying people have fear of death. The most things a

nurse can give aside from physical care are to help them accept the :ord in their heart. This

gives an assurance for them where to go.


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'eferences

8arson, F. F. 9;B;. !piritual imensions of Nursing -ractice. -hiladelphia@ 3. F.!aunders.

ong, . And Temple, F. "$%%9&, 7ppression@ a concept analysis and implications for nurses

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