The patient who is christ

Your behavior belongs only for patients who are of your religious beliefs. Please do not treat other people in a way that they may not believe. It is rude. It is selfish. It is crazy. If someone like you came to my hospital bed with your behavior, I would be shocked as hell. I suggest you keep these thoughts to yourself and get what good you can from it, but leave the patient alone unless the patient needs and asks for it. I would be insulted. The problem with people like you is that you think others are thinking like you and that you are doing them a favor. Wrong.

I'm glad you politely excused yourself, but am concerned that your emotional response over-rode your duty of care to your patient. That this response manifested as some kind of religious experience is irrelevent - your primary responsibility as a nurse or student nurse is to the wellbeing of those in your care. Seeing the suffering of Christ in the suffering of your patient doesn't help him, doesn't serve him, doesn't do anything but use him as a conduit for your own ends. And the sentence "Once again I felt that I am placed..." leads me to believe that this is not the first time this has happened. Should you become registered will you again abandon a patient who triggers this kind of emotion? I'm distressed that your thoughts lay solely with your religion, your connection with God, the meaning this had for you, with nothing for your patient except how he served as a tool for this experience.Clearly your faith is important to you. If this kind of religious incontinence is common perhaps you should consider abandoning nurisng and instead look at some kind of religious career.

This entire "article" ( using the term VERY loosley here) Gave me a RAGING case of the ickies. Not appropriate at ALL! I'm surprised AN included this as an "article...." Seriously...The author seems like he might be on the edge of some psychotic episode, cloaked in religious fervor. Again....NOT APPROPRIATE!

At first I thought I was being dissed for my response;thanks it was not me. It just "got to me" so fast when I read that post. Please Bro D. maybe going into some sort of religious work where people are on the same page as you is what you need. The patient needs to be the person who is focused on; not your "revelations". I certainly hope you are not a bedside nurse and not a chaplain for a hospital either. I work at a Catholic hospital and EVERY patient is respected for their beliefs and our chaplains are non-denominational so there is never an uncomfortable time between patient and chaplain. Of course, if the patient requests a certain religious person, it is found for them without difficulty. Please learn that "awakenings" or having "moments" are yours and not to be confused with the patient. This patient WAS NOT CHRIST. Poollleeeaaassseeeeeeee.

Your behavior belongs only for patients who are of your religious beliefs. Please do not treat other people in a way that they may not believe.

Staff note: Some separating of text done to clarify who said what.the author seems like he might be on the edge of some psychotic episode, cloaked in religious fervor. Again....NOT APPROPRIATE!

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How come the person who wrote the original post has not responded? Perhaps he is not in some sort of delusional state? No matter what anyone believes, the patient is not or was not Christ. Sorry bud. And by the way, what was the religion of the patient? Did this person even know?

Personally what he expressed is no different than a person who is reminded of a passed loved one by someone who may exhibit some of their traits no different than anyone who has de ja vu. Some people often bring us back to a place in time where we were happiest have u ever met someone and felt u have known them all your live not one time did he say he pulled out his Bible and start trying to lead him to Christ seeing him just reminded him of the sufferings of Jesus a case of de ja vu and reflection that was his ah ha moment making the connection

The OP is a Brother, a Catholic religious order. In this story he is providing care in a Philippine hospital-major religion is Catholicism in this country and had a religious experience while caring for a severely injured patient ---that in his experience equated to suffering of Christ.Many nurses working in Catholic hospitals have reported having a religious experience/connection with a patient --often someone who has been through the extremes of physical illness or injury; especially in hospitials that have in their mission statements invoking the healing power of Christ as part of their ministry.Assencion Health: Mission

I'm glad this seminarian did not hug this patient while weeping and crying out for forgiveness. I hope he is able to put a lid on his "hardheadedness" and "naughtiness" and his hyper-religious ideation. My inital reaction to the original post was somewhat similar to those who have been gently chided by administration; however, the "ickiness" or "inappropriateness" of his thoughts or feelings (however fervently expressed on an online forum) are not things we should be judging. His actions seemed appropriate, and that's what matters. If Bro. David saw Christ, whether figuratively or literally (preferably figuratively), in each of his patients and was able to care for them and ease their suffering with a full heart and hopefully not creep them out by throwing himself at their feet and speaking in tongues or something, then there ya go. Sure, a part of me finds this whole thing a little ... distasteful(?), but another part of me wonders what I would do if I saw, say, Veronica Lake walking toward me at the nursing station or had to give a young Sophia Loren a bedbath. The "ickiness" and "inappropriateness" of my thoughts might cause a stir if I posted them on the 'Changed Our Lives' forum. What a terrible analogy/comparison, but whatever, lighten up. Also, I keep suppressing the urge to write what I really think and feel.

[quote=jdougrn;5608983]staff note: some separating of text done to clarify who said what.the author seems like he might be on the edge of some psychotic episode, cloaked in religious fervor. again....not appropriate!