Coming of Age Questions

Generalizing here, but your doctor will most likely not document any such thing, because they realize the power of what you’re doing. If you want to make sure it’s in your record, mention it to as many of your nurses as you possibly can. Find at least one, preferably one for night shift, and one for day shift, who will reliably document for you in their notes. This way, no matter when the BS goes down, there will be someone to record what you’ve been through.

Anne Firor Scott (1921-2019) was an American historian, specialised in the history of the South, with a focus on women in history. She taught at Duke University, where she became the first female chair of the history department.

I graduated nursing school, I passed boards, and I am working. I’ve discovered that I don’t know what to do with free time anymore, because I went for so long without having any!

I mean it, I legit got excited that I had a whole day to go to physical therapy, get a dental cleaning and got my nails done. Why is that exciting? Because it’s oh so normal!

Hanging out with friends, calling family I haven't seen in a while, running errands around town (buying stamps or groceries, getting gas, picking things up and dropping them off);

Engaging my hobbies, like sewing, writing, calligraphy, and baking; playing my favorite video games; and spending quality time with my pets and my partner.

Hydrangea macrophylla flowers can change color depending on soil acidity. In acid soils, chemical reactions occur in the soil that make aluminium available to these plants, turning the flowers blue. In alkaline soils, these reactions cannot occur and therefore aluminium is not taken up by the plant. As a result, the flowers are pink.

Birth control should be accessible to any person who needs it. It should be affordable, if not fully covered by insurance.

As a nursing student, I’ve learned to use the word “contraception” instead, because I feel that includes non-pharmacologic methods for preventing pregnancy.

Just because a person doesn’t take hormonal contraception doesn’t mean they are trying to get pregnant. There are other natural ways of preventing pregnancy that should not be shamed. Natural family planning isn’t just for religious families, and I feel like there’s a stigma around it.

Yes, I know. NFP is more risky and it requires paying close attention to your body and being diligent about tracking symptoms. But it can be really helpful for those who have a contraindication for taking medication.

I was recently in a situation where I was going to put an NG into a patient. I did a quick assessment and asked if the patient had ever had surgery of area. Pt mentioned “yes, something with my sinuses.” Of course y'all know that patients typically don’t know terminology. My supervising RN said “it’s fine, just pick the right side.”

Well. The placement did not go well. Although the patient wasn’t very compliant, it was still very difficult. I had a bad feeling. So it was good timing when the medical resident came in, because I mentioned the surgery and sure enough we pulled up a CT scan of the head and it was obvious that we should have found that CT before proceeding.

FOUR NG attempts later, the medical resident was the one to actually listen to my concerns and assist with the procedure, rather than an RN and idk that just irked me.

The resident probably had no idea I was a student, so maybe that had something to do with it? I’m just feeling guilty because I really should have stood my ground and trusted my gut.

As far as working with RNs as a student... I'm sorry to say this, but you really have no say. S/he is too busy, too overwhelmed, and frankly, too responsible for too many things for too many people. AND unfortunately, pride gets in the way too. I'm not gonna say "nurses eat their young" because I've really had a terrific experience with my seniors. But sometimes, you have to get other parties involved. Does that make sense?

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See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”