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As a Christian - Prayer for me is like breathing. Nurses Prayer refreshes and strengthens my character as a PERSON and as a CAREGIVER.
I remember one evening shift, I learned that one demented patient became very aggressive, kicked and punched some our staff late in the morning. Nobody dares to approach her. I was her nurse that evening so when I approached her my heart was in my throat.
I knocked on her door, slowly entered her room and started calling out her name. She was lying in her bed in tears. She told me she misses her family and she has a severe back pain. I wipe her tears, gave her pain killers, touched her hand and I started a simple nurses prayer. Both of us are in tears and she was smilling back at me afterwards.
Moments like that breaks my heart to be a nurse, but it was also a wonderful experience that you can ever imagine, holding someone's hand when they are dying and no one else by their side. It’s amazing how a simple smile and warm handshake can touch or make their day. Or when they finally get discharged they have another chance to live and be loved.
I would like to share to you one of my favourite book “Purpose Driven Life” by Rick WarrenChapter 25: Transformed by Trouble
He said, “God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character”. Every problem is a character building opportunity and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fibre. Paul said, "We know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character." What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but character will last forever".
Character building is a slow process. Whenever we try to avoid or escape the difficulties in life, we short-circuit the process, delay our growth, and actually end up with a worse kind of pain - the worthless type that accompanies denial and avoidance. When you grasp the eternal consequences of your character development, you'll pray fewer, "comfort me" prayers ("Help me feel good"), and instead more of "Conform me" prayers ("Use this to make me more like you").
If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, "Why me?" Instead ask, "What do you want me to learn?" Then trust God and keep on doing what's right. "You need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so you'll be there for the promised completion." Don't give up - grow up!
An Ordinary Nurses Prayer
Lord as I work today please protect my patients and my co-workers.
I don’t know them and I don't have the right to judge any of them.
I want to help as much as I could and my presence to be a gift to them.
Impress upon my heart to see each one of them as "who" they are
Not as to what they look like, how cooperative or aggressive they are
But to be able to see deep down their eyes that… I truly care.
Open my heart to listen to what they are trying to say
Be able to read between the lines why they are shouting
And reach out to tell them that I am just there listening.
Extend my arms to touch them when they are in pain and weeping.
Give me the presence of mind that I am caring for a human being.
Where touch, hug and smile is as important to boost their well-being.
Lord I thank and lift you up today,
May I bring smile and joy to you always
Through my own simple nursing ways. Amen.
by Sherrylyn Vivero RN, BSN.
Today I Pray
On This Day I Pray- Nurses Prayer
Lord, please bless this day's work. The work that I
will be doing, and the work that my co-workers will do today.
Give each of us a sense of genuine interest and enthusiasm
for it. Help us to be cheerful about it, even the parts of it
we don't really like.
Help us not to become bitter and discouraged
when things don't go the way we want. Keep us from indifference
or laziness. Help us never, under any circumstances, cheat.
And may the work that we do today be worthy of our efforts.
Something that helps rather than hurts. Builds instead of destroy.
Work that makes some real contribution to the decency, comfort,
wisdom, and happiness of the world. Lord give us a sense of
satisfaction at the end of this day's work. Enable us to look back on it, whatever it was worth doing and that we did our best.
Thank you, God, for blessing and guiding us through this day's work.
AMEN.
-Anonymous-
Nursing Version
Nurses Prayer
Our Nurses, who art in hospitals
Angels be thy name
Thy sickness has come
Thy will be diagnosed and treated
by pills as it is by potions
Give us this day our daily
Thank-you cards and tokens of gratitude
and forgive us our hypodermic needles
as we forgive those who are aggressive
Lead us not into emptying bed-pans
but deliver us from our sense of humour
for thine is the re-assurance
the fob watch
and the thermometer
for ever caring.
Amen.
by Marc Good RN, BSN, CPAN
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