It has been most encouraging to find Nurses from many more countries visiting our website this past month and we trust you have all found something of value in your particular situation.
As we consider the present world situation it is appropriate that we give a thought to the implications for Nurses:
How many Nurses have found their financial situation crumbling just when everything had looked so rosy? Or having struggled, to feel that they were just beginning to make headway? Or have struggled tireless to give their children the opportunities that they never had only to find they have no hope of a job or of financial security?
The ‘good life’ so often striven for results in so many attractive shells that when entered into are found either empty or wanting.
Fear looms large, the heart and soul are sick deep within, the mind is deeply disturbed.
The situation is serious for nurses, and for those employed in private institutions more so than for those employed in Government. In private institutions when retrenchment takes place nurses are replaced by unskilled workers who are required to wear a uniform and are called ‘nurse’ by administration and patients.
The patients are deceived, the lie remains a fact, the patient suffers and with his family bears the cost of expensive unqualified health care.
Nurses in Government also suffer when retrenchment occurs where an existing inadequate nurse coverage operates. Wards and units are still expected to function with already overstretched nurses becoming more overstretched.
The inevitable consequences are more ill health among nurses due essentially to increasing stress factors within her/his work situation and which may well be compounded with a similar situation occurring with the spouse and or children.
What ought we to be doing about this very real situation where countless numbers are without employment, huge numbers have lost their savings, with all having ongoing financial commitments beyond their ability to pay, and thus find themselves with no foreseeable hope?
Unless we address this situation as nurses there is no way we will be able to help those who will now be subject to even more stress related ill health that requires nursing intervention.
No matter what religion or philosophy of life nurses hold, no matter how desperate a nurse may feel for herself, spouse or child, no matter how black the horizon, endless the tunnel or deep and bottomless the pit it is important that every nurse knows and finds the solution that works.
This well proven solution does not mean you will have all financial needs met immediately BUT it does mean you will have a quietness and confidence to move forward with a hope that is sure.
SOLUTION
Understand that
The underlying cause of tribulation in the world is more than man’s incompetence to manage, it is the oppressive work of the devil that is designed to keep man in confusion and prevent him from receiving the fullness of God’s provision.
Nurses recognize that all religions and philosophies while offering man some good guidelines, leaves man empty. This emptiness is filled in the so called ‘good times’ with the ‘good things of the world’. But when the crunch comes the evidence is seen: more and more mental illness vis a vis the current great increase in the need for mental health services, more and more suicides, more and more marriage and family breakups, more and more heinous crime, noise, noise and more noise but no peace.
Man’s search for self-realization and self-actualization have failed
The LORD Jesus Christ teaches us throughout the four Gospels, Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, much about the many forms of tribulation found in the world but He makes very clear what He came to give each and every person who really wants it, and that is assurance: First and foremost |
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
(No one anywhere in the world need walk the slippery slopes of life alone.)
Life and life abundantly
Peace that passes understanding
The daily bread of life
The fountain of the water of life from which to drink deeply. |
All this and much more He promises but having giving us a free mind and will to choose says to each one of us:
“Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.
Whatever you ask in My name believing, I will hear and answer.
All authority in heaven and in earth is given to Me…Go and lo I am with you…”
In all of the above we see something very special, Jesus is talking directly to each one of us. He is giving us the freedom and the choice to receive all that we could ever desire and which the structures of this world have never and can never give us.
May we never ignore the truth or forget that God has planted the seeds of faith and obedience to His will deep within our hearts and minds.
Jesus asks ‘Do you have faith to believe?’
He offers us unreservedly the power to overcome in every situation and circumstance in life so that there is no need for any of us to have burnout, any form of despair, mental illness or any other form of torment.
Within this power that Jesus alone can give you and me is strength, wisdom and grace in every time of weakness.
Therefore, may each nurse equip her/himself directly from the LORD Jesus Christ that we might know with certainty the things that have been given us by God, so that we may encourage each other as nurses, and to more effectively encourage our families, our patients and their families, other staff and all with whom we interact, not with the shallowness of worldly wisdom but with the power of God’s wisdom and grace.
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