The kd lang version is incredible. I’d put it and the Buckely version on the same level. But that might be the Canadian in me.

If it’s husbo and I, we will order the usual from the Chinese place down the street- Beef and greens chow mein, honey garlic spare ribs, garlic gai lan and spicy green beans. And steamed rice. It’s 2-3 meals worth of food. Mmm.

If it’s just me, rotisserie chicken, boiled little potatoes, creamed corn. The little…

Last year, I terminated a much-wanted pregnancy at 23 weeks due to a fatal fetal abnormality. At 22+5, they stopped the fetus’ heart with an injection through my abdomen. The doctor watched to make sure it had worked. And two days later, I was scheduled for a scheduled D+C under a general anaesthetic. I ended up…

If you peel the chickpeas, it’s silky smoooooth.

This is infuriating. I live in Vancouver, BC, where we’ve had a HUGE increase in overdoses and deaths. One can be trained to use Narcan, and get free kits to do so. It amazes me that people would stoop to profit from something this dire.

The health authority I work for runs one of many Narcan programmes, and is testing…

Fisssssstuuuuuuula. It looks how it sounds!

Whilst finishing nursing school, I worked in a clinic specific to endometriosis and prolapse. Some of the poor women in there, oy. One was coming in to have her uterus stitched back in for the SECOND time, and mentioned that her husband insisted on having sex with her anyway. Even though her uterus was descending…

Where we live (in Canada), midwives can have hospital privileges, and if the birth does not go according to plan, an OB can be called in to take over. Does that happen in the states, or are the regs different? Midwives here are also accredited, with a college to support them, much the same as RNs.

But it is so fun to say!

Practicums and skills consolidation are a huge part of it too. They’re along with, not instead of.

Patient care planning, communications to MDs, handover, patient education and charting are all areas in which the ability to communicate clearly in writing is non-negotiable. If something goes sideways and your documentation is called into question, you’re hooped. If you get called into court, it’s what can save your…

I encourage my nurses to hand the orders back to them for clarification, or to call them as many times as necessary. If, for example, we’re expected to decipher between ketamine, kepra or kayexcelate, the margins for error can be a little too slim.

Could they just make Larry the new PM? He’d likely be a welcome change.

Thank-you for the point with regard to the semantics we use in these cases.

I work as a nurse, and recently (like, 2 weeks ago) chose to terminate a non-viable (due to anomaly), but much-wanted pregnancy at 22 weeks. The practitioners at the hospital where I had the procedure were cognizant of the medicalized language…

Thank-you. I’m constantly stunned that our access is an aberration in the Americas. The non-judgemental care that I’ve been fortunate enough to receive really ought to be the model providers aspire to.

I live in BC, and have recently chosen to undergo a surgical termination of a very wanted baby due to fetal non-viability.

Though this experience is pretty much the shittiest thing that has ever happened to me, I cannot for the life of me IMAGINE if I had to travel hundreds of kilometers, away from support systems and…

No.
Just. No.

“Pardon me. The cat’s on fire.”

I’ve been with 29 people when they’ve died. In their rooms with them, sometimes alone, and sometimes with their families present. There’s something both exhilarating and exhausting about being with someone when they go through that ultimate transition, and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to be there, and to…