I agree, though I would say that anyone convicted of the deliberate, non-sanctioned killing of another should be sentenced to death.
[Sanctioned in this sense is that which is allowed or demanded by law or legal authority. Self-defense would be sanctioned, as would execution, or deaths caused by law enforcement or the military in the course of their legal duties.]
Well, I disagree - I don't think one's profession should determine what kind of punishment they receive for a crime. Every sane adult should be held to the same standard.
That doesn't apply, of course, if a nurse kills someone on the job - that should definitely have a higher punishment. But I fail to understand why an accountant who kills her husband off-duty is less guilty than a nurse who kills her husband off-duty.
Interesting post, though.
I, too, am deeply saddened whenever I see that a nurse has been convicted of such a heinous crime against another human being. A company I once worked for had to fire a nurse who was stealing pain meds from our patients. It was a long drawn out process to finally stop this person, get the necessary protective measures in place, and properly report the incidents to the various authorities, etc---and one of our sickest elderly patients was even brave enough to sit through a stressful deposition in order to help our company's legal case against the offending nurse.
The worst was when, to my great heartbreak, I realized that the situation had caused several patients to lose their trust in the nursing profession. That killed me.
I am certainly not the best nurse in the world by far, but I do hold my nursing vows to help the sick as sacred--- and I take it as a complete insult to the profession when someone hurts that trust that patients have in their nurses.
Thank you for this post.
Kudos! Very informative article, keep up the good works! More power
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Death? Too easy. It is cost effective, though. And yes, it pisses me off too. But please indulge a counterpoint here.
What does it take to get your RN: Fulfill the requirements of an educational (I use the term advisedly with respect to some nursing schools) institution, and pass a test. I graduated with a couple pretty wacky people. I've worked with plenty more through the years. You have to be pretty out there to be excluded from nursing.
It doesn't surprise me. It shouldn't surprise you that some twisted creatures are nurses. One could argue that the care-giving impulse has its dysfunctional alter ego well developed in the motives of a lot of nurses. Kind of like the firefighter-arsonist.
If you've been around (I've been a RN for well over 3 decades), you know there are plenty of misanthropic nurses; lots of family hate spoken in many ICUs. Please. Let's be honest here. A few nurses do exemplify the Angel of Mercy paradigm. However much we cling to it, the image of nursing *may* largely be a beloved myth.
There are the Angels and the Devils and most of us fall somewhere in between. I also hope that the profession selects for truly caring people. In general, nurses likely do deserve their trusted status within reason. But I wonder if an objective look at the data would render a factual basis for what the public believes about nurses, or, would illuminate a tendency toward myth perpetuation. It's just a question.
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