[Vision2020] Freedom of Conscience Bill 1353

[Donovan Arnold]

Roger,
 
I think that, whenever possible, employers should respect the religious rights and personal needs and beliefs of both the patient and the care provider. Only when it is an unnecessary unreasonable burden on an employer or patient should a care provider be required to go against a deep personal religious or spiritual belief to provide a necessary service to a patient or client. 
 
Abuse and neglect of the care provider's needs and wishes will mean less people willing to be care providers. Which, obviously, results in less quality of care for all patients.
 
I can personally attest to the fact that care providers (nurses, CNAs, MAs, doctors, etc) are subjected to every type of imaginable abuse a person can inflict on another person while trying to give cares. It is this type of neglect and abuse they must endure that leads to such shortages of willing care providers. 
 
Most care providers will do anything asked of them for the well being of the patients they are providing care to. However, it is abuse, in my opinion, to ask them to sacrifice even more, their soul and personal belief system that makes them a person willing to provide care, if it is not necessary to do so. 
 
To me it is simple, care for the care providers, and you will have care providers, abuse them, ignore their needs and rights, and you will be without enough care providers and paying more for the ones we do have. 
 
Your Friend,
 
Donovan Arnold=======================================================
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