This came up last year with the legalization of abortions up to ....weeks (can't remember but this is not the point). The debate then went out from nurses, saying that they would never nurse someone who had had an abortion. This eventually made it to our unions and registration boards who pretty much said; You have the right not to be involved in a procedure which is against your beliefs, but you do not have the right to choose who you are going to care for during a shift. This made sense to most people here and the issue eventually went away.

So as a nurse you might have to admit them to hospital, and look after them after the procedure, but if you did not believe that abortion should be allowed, then you couldn't be forced to help with the procedure.

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'Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. - BC Forbes'

If it's legal and the pt requests it - I do it.

Neither my job description nor my registration exam included any questions on what were my own personal morals.

If you can't provide the service the patient requires and/or requests, the profession allows you to do and the employer pays you to complete - what were you thinking?

Personally I think it's more amoral to dispense more than half the medication given out in psych and to lock up people indefinitely under mental health labels when it's clearly a lack of service or opportunity that's missing.

Should I refuse to do this part of my job?