Bananas are one of the four foods we give to patients to slow down diarrhea. That woman must poop once a month.

Rips, tears and bleeding are actually not particularly common after non-consensual vaginal penetration. While I appreciate many of he points you made in your comment, it’s vitally important that we not perpetuate the myth that physical injury is to be expected in cases of sexual assault. In fact, a great number of…

I cannot believe I actually have to explain this, but you can be largely incapacitated and still feel some pain and/or have some awareness of something terrible being done to you.

Nursing union for life 💗

I don’t know what the structure is like in the US, but in Canada, the hierarchy is very real. That doesn’t mean there aren’t all sorts of fantastic physicians who are team players, but the culture in medicine most definitely values the work, and the judgment, of physicians over the other medical professionals on the…

As a nurse, I can confirm that there are a lot of mean nurses. They are mean for a variety of reasons, but there are lots of assholes in the profession. Ignoring this and romanticising nurses only perpetuates the bullshit message of nurses as angels/natural caregivers and not what they really are: hard-working medical…

I’m pretty surprised by that. There’s been tons of research done with nurses discussing a wide variety of work experiences in Canada. The only restrictions I know of are patient confidentiality and possible insubordination for being publicly critical of your employer (both of which could be pretty easily avoided).

The most frustrating part of being a nurse, for me, is the pervasive narrative that this shit comes naturally. That we’re inherently gifted with the skills to provide nursing care. It’s dismissive and gendered and pisses me off to no end. Nursing is a medical science. I go to school for this, I am constantly taking…

Yeah, because sexual assault cases are handled so effectively in the big city.

Strings break on tampons all the time, but yeah, ususually people can just scoop it out with a finger (it's not really that deep in there and the tampon ain't going to be migrating to your brain or anything). Occasionally people either panic or really just can't get hold of it.

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Thing about that one is that the string isn't necessary, because as the item in question melts, it becomes soft and easily expelled from the body, and thus unlikely to end up in any sort of emerg-requiring situation ♡

Oh dear god.

They always accidentally sit on it.

I've said it before, and will continue to say it: Please, from all the nurses out there, if you're going to shove something in one of your holes, just tie a goddamned string around it first!

Aw shucks, I love my job ♡

I'm an SA nurse and I would say at least 40% of the time I am correcting misinformation coming out of police officers' mouths and/or escorting them out of the room so they don't make my clients feel like complete and utter shit who deserved whatever they got.

Surgical site infections are also a consideration, not just for the person having the section, but also as a larger public health issue.

No. Tons of people (myself included) have been raised to be successful, reasonable adults without ever being subjected to violent punishment (aka spanking) from our parents. There is nothing "necessary" about hitting your children.

Corrected again! It was a different bear that scared off the mailman!