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Truex, Evangeline. Compassion: Infiltrating The Profession of Nursing. Spring 1992 Vol. 21 No. 1 pp. 52-63. Web. directionjournal.org. June 15, 2016.

Compassion is a common denominator in nursing. It is the fuel that flames the hearts of people who invest deeply and intimately into the lives of the living and the dying in the healthcare field. Religion plays a massive part in death’s effects on nurses. Driven by a serious commitment to preserve the quality of life, which is different than preserving life at all cost, is the first commandment of being a nurse. The author of this article is a nurse. She squeezes and massages the heart of her readers through the expression of her religious beliefs about compassion and mercy killing as she interprets being reflected in The Bible. The perspective she projects is powerful no matter what you believe, because it is not about whether or not anyone believes what she believes, but she challenges the reader to take into account that some nurses are religious and their belief system is so critical to them in how they process and handle death and the emotions about and reactions to it. Religion can and does influence nurse’s decisions as it relates to people dying, suffering, and being in extreme pain. If this genre is left unaddressed and under researched, it has the potential to be overlooked in patient death tolls as part of the mass compassionate and mercy killings that do still exist today. Important key information could be lost in the scope of digging into concrete evidence of death’s effects on nurses based on their belief system, culture, and country’s laws on such practices. In this work, the author focuses on God’s compassion versus men. She uses Scripture to substantiate her belief that God has compassion on whom He has compassion on and He does not have compassion on those He does not. The same is quoted about mercy. God has mercy on those whom He will have mercy on and God does not have mercy on those whom He does not have mercy on. This is an amazing vantage point to reference as it cannot be disregarded, but it can definitely be left open for a heated and intense debate based on what a person believes and interprets. Her view also talks about God’s compassion being merciful through death, in which case could be misconstrued in the nursing field since if a person believes in The Bible, it tells us that we are made in the image of God and have been given all authority in the earth to judge. If a person does not believe in The Bible, God, or any one person having that kind of authority, opposing theories would counter this stance by simply stating they do not believe in anything or anybody religious, spiritual, or heavenly, therefore eliminating this piece of insight from being credible as motivation for nurses to kill people and how death affects their decision making ability. Beliefs systems are the strongest powerful mixture of explosives in everyday life. They cannot be taken out of any equation, event, decision, emotion, judgments, practices, habits, and any other form of social, economic, private, corporate, personal, professional, or the human capacity of living. Therefore, religion will be a part of the research paper because it is a universal term that can be applied to any belief or non-belief system due to its versatility of definition and use in society, academia, medical, and social arenas. The majority of the world’s population believes in something spiritual. In order to properly give credence to this area of my research, I chose the most controversial religion and religious beliefs to document as a resource, The Bible. The author in this journal uses Scripture in different context and meaning applying it to death in the nursing field. Due to the deeply treasured and coveted belief systems in people’s lives, nurses who do not waiver in and will not compromise their religious beliefs pose a threat to patients in how they interpret and administer their beliefs in their profession. This memoir is quite the masterpiece of revelation into a world where an individual’s belief system rules and reigns supreme.