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Laura_B
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Hi:
I need some advice (and as always) I need prayers:
I just started working as a nursing assistant to a hospice service. I visit a nursing home (I will probably be doing home care also) to provide bathing, feeding and other assistance to patients who are designated for hospice (ie, they are in the end stages of their illnesses, which of course, could happen any time – today or even a year or more from now).
The advice I need is this: On those occasions in which the patient has passed (either while I am present or I happen to be the one who discovers the remains), what should I do (I am a cradle Catholic) ----
if I know they are Catholic
If I know they are Christian (but don’t know the denomination)
If I know they are of another faith
If I only know they “believe in God” (this appears on their care plan at times)
If I don’t know anything at all about their faith life?
Note: In my city, they are most likely to be Catholic, Christian or of undetermined faith). I guess my current thought is to privately say “Eternal rest grant to them O Lord…” and perhaps the 23rd psalm. Is this correct for all these circumstances?
Of course, if the family is present, I would of course defer to them or at most say, “would you like a prayer said?”
Thanks in advance for the advice and the prayers (oh yes, as to prayers, please pray that I do this job well and that it be a job I can keep and work around my family schedule for a long, long time. I’ve been on a job odyssey for at least two years now and I hope that this is where God wants me to be for a long time.)
Thanks again.
God bless you and yours.
I need some advice (and as always) I need prayers:
I just started working as a nursing assistant to a hospice service. I visit a nursing home (I will probably be doing home care also) to provide bathing, feeding and other assistance to patients who are designated for hospice (ie, they are in the end stages of their illnesses, which of course, could happen any time – today or even a year or more from now).
The advice I need is this: On those occasions in which the patient has passed (either while I am present or I happen to be the one who discovers the remains), what should I do (I am a cradle Catholic) ----
if I know they are Catholic
If I know they are Christian (but don’t know the denomination)
If I know they are of another faith
If I only know they “believe in God” (this appears on their care plan at times)
If I don’t know anything at all about their faith life?
Note: In my city, they are most likely to be Catholic, Christian or of undetermined faith). I guess my current thought is to privately say “Eternal rest grant to them O Lord…” and perhaps the 23rd psalm. Is this correct for all these circumstances?
Of course, if the family is present, I would of course defer to them or at most say, “would you like a prayer said?”
Thanks in advance for the advice and the prayers (oh yes, as to prayers, please pray that I do this job well and that it be a job I can keep and work around my family schedule for a long, long time. I’ve been on a job odyssey for at least two years now and I hope that this is where God wants me to be for a long time.)
Thanks again.
God bless you and yours.