Should Nhs Healthcare Staff Undergo Cultural Training?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11252640._Give_NHS_staff_religious_and_cultural_training__says_surgeon/

Well Aiman Alzetani, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Southampton General Hospital, thinks so.

/// Practices such as washing before and after meals, shaking hands with members of the opposite sex and male relatives seeing female Islamic patients without a hijab on were just some of the instances cited by Mr Alzetani. ///

Perhaps before going into religious sensitivities, we should make sure that the basic human requirements are addressed first, I am referring to recent cases of elderly patients being forced to lie in their own urine and excretions.

[Sqad]

Icg

\\\\\ i know that doctors have enough time to swan and fart about\\\\

How dare you !

Getting in to the hospital at 10.am, coffee to start with, then 20 minutes work before lunch. A secretary of staff nurse, organised for a pub lunch, followed by a bit of "nooky" in a lay-by and then drop her back to the hospital. A drink and a game of snooker at the "Gentleman's Club" followed by a couple of hours of snooker before going home to the wife and family..... hardly "swanning and farting about."

[pixie373]

Lol:-)

[Mamyalynne]

What, no Golf??

[Sqad]

mamy........My post relates to Mon, Wed, Thur and Fri.

Golf is on Tuesday.

[mrs.chappie]

No, definitely not.

When in Rome, and all that.

[Mamyalynne]

Phew - that's ok then.

[royfromaus]

What about healthcare staff who are staunch atheists, will they be shown the door if they refuse to indulge ?

[naomi24]

^Good question - seriously. Whose beliefs take precedence?

[anotheoldgit]

Sqad

And what do the Female doctors get up to?

[Sqad]

AOG...LOL...with a bit of luck, there are no female doctors.

[Peter Pedant]

Ni: ^Good question - seriously. Whose beliefs take precedence

Patients' of course.

drummed in at medical school that doctors religious views are by and large irrelevant - xc surprisingly the statutory exception over assisting at terminations.

[pixie373]

He's talking about the female doctors, aog ;-)

Naomi, presumably the patient's needs would take precedence. Some of those are already in place- dietary preferences, female staff only, etc. Perhaps people might leave hospital having realised that none of their usual rituals were actually necessary :D

[pixie373]

PP- that's not necessarily religious? That could be personal views from anyone.

[Old_Geezer]

Any training helping staff to understand the patient and provide nursing care should be given, for it is advantageous to form a good relationship with the patient. The better they feel the faster they heal. But training just pandering to cultural preferences when someone chooses to live in a country that doesn't hold the same values, is probably not justifiable on cost grounds alone. And on top of that one creates a rod for one's own back spreading the fallacy that everyone here should lean over backwards to avoid offence. The typical example given of not shaking hands with someone of the opposite sex, if one insists on rules like that then live where the society supports that requirement, not where they are more enlightened.

[Peter Pedant]

yes pixie - the context was religious.

no one used to take my stock market tips, but we werent really discussing that.

[anotheoldgit]

pixie373

/// He's talking about the female doctors, aog ;-) ///

*** followed by a bit of "nooky" in a lay-by and then drop her back to the hospital. A drink and a game of snooker at the "Gentleman's Club" followed by a couple of hours of snooker before going home to the wife and family..***

If he is, times have certainly changed, one doesn't know a female from male these days.. :0)