A Timely Assessment

Throughout my nursing career I trained RNs at the bedside and in the classroom in both the art and the science of nursing.

One important detail I drilled into their minds had to do with making a proper “Room Assessment” at the same time they do their patient assessment. It is not enough, when the nurse comes on shift, to simply assess the patient – vital signs, level of consciousness, wounds, and so forth. They needed to ALSO assess the availability of the emergency equipment, such as the suction canister and tubing that must be at the bedside.

I repeatedly told them – based on my own experiences – “The time to learn you need suction equipment for a choking patient is NOT when you actually need suction equipment.”

That principle is valid in other areas of life. For example: If you don’t believe Christians in America are at the precipice of wide-scale persecution – much more than we are now witnessing – then you have either not been paying attention, or you are simply closing your eyes to reality. And if you think the anti-Christian persecution will not turn deadly, you do not know the history of the Church and its martyrs – ancient and modern.

Please listen! Do a spiritual assessment on yourself. Do it today.

The time to learn you need to know your Bible better, and to develop a closer walk with Jesus is NOT when you actually need to know your Bible better and have a closer walk with Jesus. Next year may be too late to do it as easily as we can still do it.