When nursing practice and moral conviction collide

As a bible believing nurse I am often confronted by ethical dilemmas in the work place - everything from a coworker who is not administering medications as ordered to a complete lack of respect for human life. However, we need to take care, regardless of how conservative our stand may be, not to "throw out the baby with the bathwater". Certainly, I would never participate in the murder of a child in the womb, but I would never deny care to any woman before or after such an event. As a nurse I feel Christ-honoring behavior is not to sacrifice respect for the woman simply because she has made choices that I find abhorrent. If I deny her care, the best care I can give, I am judging her life to be worth less because of her choice. Did Christ consider me worth less because of my choices? I thank God He redeemed me, in spite of who am, not because.

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