It’s All About Love
“Love leaves a legacy. how you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.” -Rick Warren.
Last week I am busy making and compiling my group mates’ comprehensive study about moral principles for the subject professional adjustment. Actually this topic is only a review of what we tackled 3 years ago in Health Ethics but because of immaturity I don’t take it seriously. I just memorize it without comprehension and reflection.
Moral principle includes the principle of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, fidelity, veracity and confidentiality…In fact, this so many principles can only summarized in just a simple phrase, a common phrase that we usually heard, and that is “love God and love your neighbor”. This great commandment greatly impacts us nurses…As a health care provider let us view our patient us brothers and sisters. Love them, treat them with care. Actually, I did not regret that I took this course. Nurses are blessed because we have an opportunity to care people, who are in need. We must take our profession as a privilege, an opportunity, a calling rather than a mere obligation and responsibility. They are different, because when you say it is a privilege, opportunity and calling, you do your job with love, you treat it as a gift, you treasure it, and do your best for it. While taking this as obligation and responsibility, yes you do your job well but the passion in what you are doing is lacking, you do it because it is your duty to do so not because you have a heart in it Love is what they need, our patient needs your competence, but far more than that, they need you, they need healing from within, and it will only accomplish through expressing our real compassion to them.
“These three things continue forever: faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love.” 1Corinthians 13:13
