A Christian Nurse

Nursing is both a career and a calling since being a Christian nurse allows for the opportunity to show people the love of Christ through compassionate action. Nursing is a career full of unexpected events, which requires critical thinking skills. Nursing involves weighing the responsibility to carry out a task while taking into account the possible risks involved for both the patient as well as the nurse. With this in mind, the American Nurses Association holds, “that nurses are obligated to care for patients in a nondiscriminatory manner, with respect for all individuals” (American Nurses Association Position Statement On, 2015, p. 1). Therefore, it is the nurse’s responsibility to treat every patient or individual he or she encounters with

A good nurse assesses his or her responsibility to address these needs in light of each situation through therapeutic conversation with the patient. This assessment of a hospital patient’s needs is identified in, “… four categories: seeking for a sense of life, relationships, transcendence, and religious practices” (Portella Ribeiro et al., 2016, p. 5140). Open communication allows the nurse to be able to assess the risks for the patient, and how the nurse can help to fulfill his or her responsibility to promote healing for the patient during the duration of the patient’s care. In correlation, the American Nurses Association holds to the belief that, “there may be limits to the personal risk of harm nurses can be expected to accept as an ethical duty” (American Nurses Association Position Statement On, 2015, p. 1). This means there is a point in which a nurse is able to protect themselves when he or she is no longer ethically required to engage in care if doing so could result in personal