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American Nurses Association Statement on the Terri Schiavo Case
American Nurses Association press release ^ | March 23, 2005 | Barbara B. Blakeney

Posted on 03/28/2005 3:52:07 PM PST by LauraJean

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To: LauraJean

I think the nurses association would have been better served by saying nothing at all in this case, rather than engaging in the 'politicising' they seem to condemn.


41 posted on 03/28/2005 4:20:25 PM PST by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: mlc9852
"Furthermore, there is evidence that Terri Schiavo expressed her wishes not to have her life artificially maintained under such circumstances."

It remains a complete mystery how eating and drinking have now been morphed into "artificial" life support.

Eating and drinking are natural functions, and sometimes disable people need help with them - and this is a help that we are morally and legally obliged to provide.

Withholding food and water goes far beyond removal of "artificial life support" such as respirators, aartificial kidneys, or heartbeat maintenance devices, and cannot be equated with such actions in any sense whatever.

Terri Schiavo's life was not ending, and it was not being artifically prolonged.

Terri's life is being ended as an act of murderous will.

42 posted on 03/28/2005 4:21:31 PM PST by John Valentine
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To: Conservababe
Thank goodness someone still has some common sense.

So9

43 posted on 03/28/2005 4:24:24 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: SteveMcKing
"Today's nurses are not all angels that Barry Sadler sang about in 1965. "

I'm just going to take a little blood sweetie. Later, someone is going to draw some for the hospital.

44 posted on 03/28/2005 4:29:20 PM PST by Enterprise (Abortion and "euthanasia" - the twin destroyers of the Democrat Party.)
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To: LauraJean

Keep in mind that her whormongering spouse is a nurse. I don't know if he is a member of this rump organization or not, but this bears all the earmarks of a "white wall of silence."

I think it is about as credible as George's pronouncements - Felos or Greer, take your pick.


45 posted on 03/28/2005 4:30:04 PM PST by MainFrame65
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To: LauraJean
"Furthermore, there is evidence that Terri Schiavo expressed her wishes not to have her life artificially maintained under such circumstances. ANA believes the Congress and the president have acted inappropriately in this case. It is unfortunate that Terri Schiavo has now become the symbol of so many political agendas."

My wife is an RN. She abhors the bureaucratic bullsh*t and people getting paid to work out these type of communications.
That said, this is precisely what I would have expected them to say. Why didn't they mention that there is also evidence that Terri would want to continue living. Furthermore, I doubt most people would agree that giving tube feedings is being "artificially maintained". Man's Death March marches on. And to think we sometimes read soul-searching treatises and studies about why our adolescents are committing suicide in ever increasing numbers!!! Go figure folks. This organization is sick.
46 posted on 03/28/2005 4:30:55 PM PST by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: Aliska
No its worse than that. I know that type of bullsh*t is hard to read, BUT if you read closely, they are wholeheartedly concurring with the starvation and manage to get in a dig at the Pres. and Congress if I read right.
47 posted on 03/28/2005 4:33:32 PM PST by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota
What I can't figure out is how a local hospital has bought two corner properties, cleared off the houses, and put up signs that light up at night with the hospital name on it, not to mention expensive landscaping.

It seems they are spending an awful lot of money on things that are totally unnecessary. Where is it coming from?

48 posted on 03/28/2005 4:38:41 PM PST by Aliska
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To: NautiNurse; Warrior Nurse

ping


49 posted on 03/28/2005 4:40:45 PM PST by nutmeg (democRATs = The Party of NO)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota
I should have mentioned that the corner properties are two blocks away. There is a third property that has been cleared and a tree planted. I wonder who owns that and what they are saving it for.
50 posted on 03/28/2005 4:40:59 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska
Prices are out of control all over in the medical field. By closely watching the bills for my wife's hospitalization for two days and callling them on the coublecharges and what not, I had over $1000 taken from our bill. And that was over 10 years ago.
52 posted on 03/28/2005 4:42:20 PM PST by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

I can't read all that bs. I don't have a real good opinion of most nurses; there are exceptions. They have to check their personal morality at the door when they go to work and have become hardened by what they deal with on a daily basis.


53 posted on 03/28/2005 4:43:03 PM PST by Aliska
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To: ZGuy

Is the ANA to nurses what the ALA is to librarians -- A liberal mouthpiece that doesn't necessarily reflect the views of its members?

yes


54 posted on 03/28/2005 4:46:51 PM PST by KDubRN
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To: ZGuy

You asked "Is the ANA to nurses what the ALA is to librarians -- A liberal mouthpiece that doesn't necessarily reflect the views of its members?"

In one word, yes.


55 posted on 03/28/2005 4:46:52 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
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To: Aliska
But not my wife! :}
She's still a doll. She left a hospice job when they no longer fullfilled their promise of n"not doing anything to hasten death." And I was very proud of her and if the nurses in Fl would have half the sense of her, we wouldn't be in this mess. They wouldn't have a nursing staff and the admin. type are too lazy to keep doing any amount of real caring work.Yes, I'm a little off track and tooting my wife's horn--so be it.
56 posted on 03/28/2005 4:48:08 PM PST by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota
I had over $1000 taken from our bill.

Doesn't surprise me. You have to watch every bill carefully. I recently had a hard drive (ordered on the internet) put in my computer by a local shop and a lot of other stuff done. I called ahead and asked what the bill would be and when I went to pick it up and pay, they had added over $100. I asked why since they said on the phone (can't remember exact amount) and they said you had a hard drive put in. I said I brought in my own hard drive, and they deducted it. For all the stuff I had done, I might have paid without blinking, but what was done they didn't have to monitor constantly (transfer of date).

My sister and her husband had a lot of electrical work done, and my brother-in-law went over the bill and they tried to overcharge them $2000.

Back to the subject at hand. I heard this discussed on talk radio locally, and it was claimed that it is a common practice to overbill people with insurance to cover the non-paying patients. Add that to a lot of people aren't feeling all that well and may not look at their bills too carefully.

57 posted on 03/28/2005 4:52:13 PM PST by Aliska
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To: LauraJean
I have been an RN for 35 years and have never belonged to this organization. Most of the nurses doing the backbreaking stressful work in hospitals don't belong either. They don't speak for most of the nursing profession, but only for the minority who belong to this group.
58 posted on 03/28/2005 4:52:18 PM PST by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

Toot away. Sounds justified.


59 posted on 03/28/2005 4:53:16 PM PST by Aliska
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To: LauraJean

Whew!

You're not kidding!

Just awful.


60 posted on 03/28/2005 4:54:17 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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