Ethics

So, I came in at 7:45 today to videotape a nursing conference. A FOUR HOUR nursing conference. The first hour was interesting as it was about ethics in the nursing and medical profession. It also got into the legal ramifications, and how it always helps to have conditions written down in the case of non-capacity. Like, if you become unable to make your own decisions, you want person A to be the one to make decisions. In Michigan, the law has no set line command for who makes decisions for you medically, except in the case of organ donation (in which case its the spouse, kids, etc). Thus, in Michigan, the kids can challenge the opinions of the spouse, and they have to come to a family consensus, UNLESS you have pre-incapacity written legal forms of the conditions you have to be in for said person to become your advocarte. Also, you should have written forms for treatment if you become chronically ill and decrepit.

So, that all was very intriguing, but the second hour was on acupuncture, which did not hold my attention at all.

Speaking of ethics, as I am "testing" this computer, there is a page here that has the six priciples of non-violence, and I think these are amusing enough to put them down:

1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
3. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
4. Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
5. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
6. Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
- From Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia

Under each of these principles is what they do as nonviolent protestors in honor of these principles. It is very amusing and intriguing, and if there were more copies, I'd steal one for later use. Yet it is still somewhat liberal propaganda.