#nurse advocates

[fabuladorah]

MY THOUGHTS ON DBDA SHIPS NO ONE ASKED BUT I DONT GIVE A DAMN:

Paynland: sue me but I dont think they would work as a traditional couple. They'll kiss once a week AT BEST. Nothing will change when Charles realizes his feelings, except for maybe pet names and also now Charles understand that Edwin's lap is a synomin to chair, no more desk sitting unfortunetaly.

Cryland: GIRL! I got so many thoughts on these two cant even share 'em all, but to keep it short, queerplatonic with kissing cuz they like it. Ill have to do a post just for them BECAUSE.

Palasaki: at first I thought something would happen between them (DAMN YOU PARASITES) but yeah now I prefer them as friends. Niko seems pretty uninterested in finding herself a partner, and I enjoy the besties dynamic.

Catwin: I hate it, but they should fuck at least once.

Payncrow (i guess?) : Monty, dear, you need to realize you were never even an option to begin with.

Kashi + Night Nurse: they should marry and retire to a cottage by the sea. Btw the wedding should be inside that whale.

Esther Finch + Tragic Mick: I like it cuz its funny, but overall no, but maybe yes. And you can't deny that they'd be a hella good looking couple.

That said, Jenny and Maxine are the real ones/ j

[carnation-damnation]

Shadow the 3rd shift Resident Advocate who also provides hospitality aid! Remember when I said Shadow looks completely different while on the clock? Yeah

[laneaconite]

Treatment

“Take this pill,” They say.

Take this pill and it should work

 In a month,

                    Three months,

                                            Six.

Take this pill,

And it will make you tired.

                                        They all make you tired,

Because they act on the brain, 

                                                  You see.

Take this pill,

“We’re sorry the others didn’t work.”

We will smile

                    Sympathetically.

                                                 We do care.

Take this

            Pill.

                  It will make you dizzy.

Take this

            Injection.

                           Since it is treatment resistant

Now.

It will hurt,

                 It will make you itch.

You can still keep taking the old ones,

                                                         In case they end up working

                                                                                                          Too.

Take this pill,

                      It should work in one month,

                                                                    Three months,

Six.

No, we don’t know

                               Why this is happening.

We don’t know

                     How to fix it.

Your blood screening was

                                           Normal.

Your CT scan was

                                Normal.

Take this pill.

-Lane Aconite,

March 5th, 2023

[howldean]

top surgery consult time :3

[the-ace-with-spades]

Rant because yesterday I saw my fucking unit manager eat a chocolate bouquet with my name on it and it was the last fucking straw

My management at work is shite.

They pick on you if you have more than 3 episodes of absences even if you acquired the sickness at work or if it was just for a day for a chronic condition they know you have and promised not to count into the absences. Even if you're not supposed to come in sick to not get vulnerable people sick.

They give you speeches about poor care and complaints from relatives (which, I do think the complaints are justified) and also give you a ratio of 1:5 of nursing stuff (nurses and assistants total) in a high dependency all-care in bed unit. When you show them you physically need another 18h of labour on shift (so another 2 people) they say to ask for help from other sections, who have the same ratios and also need another person minimum. We're drowning in new admissions and delayed care and they come and ask you if you tidied up the med cupboard yet today. They never see patients themselves, not even when we can't manage on the floor.

They do infection control audits and dunk you down on things you know doctors and not nurses are doing. They send you to extra training during working hours and complain you didn't do all your on the unit work a few hours later. They don't allocate time for elearning and tell you to just do it when you're not busy - like there's ever a time like that.

But you know what is annoying me the most right now?

We try our best and we're good at it and the patients and relatives appreciate the care we give them. They bring gifts - to the people who feed their mums every day, who helped their dads walk again, who help their nanas have a wash and braided their hair, who change their dressings and clean their teeth and mouth, who check on them four times a day minimum, who get them their medication on time despite those horrible staffing ratios, and who escalate to doctors who don't want to listen (mostly because they're also busy).

And the patients and their families, they bring gifts. Cards, chocolates, shop vouchers with nurse's names. Little pens, lanyards, bath salts, candles. Juice and squash, coffee pods, tea bags.

And you know where it all goes? To the management office

We're not allowed to put it in our staff room. Don't know why but I've been told off for putting chocolate boxes in there. It always has to go to the office first and maybe some time after, the manger will put it in the staff room if she feels like it.

And you know what happens once those gifts land in that office? We, the people who actually provide the care 24/7, and get praises despite operating on 2/3 of the staffing we need, we don't see them ever again

[haruspexism]

i love shit like house and grey's anatomy but also at the same time they are to the medical field what shit like law and order and brooklyn 99 are to policing

[simptasia]

mum and i were almost not able to buy our house because a real estate lawyer heard us casually say i'm autistic and alarm bells went off in her head, because she believed that meant i wasn't mentally capable of understanding what i was signing up for

[thisisthevoice]

i actually didnt realize this was a controversy but we're going to discuss unions/striking in class on wednesday and i think itll be interesting

however this is the first few sentences of the assigned pre-reading and my knee jerk reaction was so pro-union/pro-strike hkjsbmksjgh BWAH BWAH BWAH "UNPROFESSIONAL" shut up

[sheathandshear]

I guess what bothers me about a lot of disability justice approaches to healthcare -- the "doctors must trust that patients are the experts of own bodies" approach -- is that this is the perspective of people with high health literacy written for audiences of people who also have high health literacy, most of whom I think truly do not grasp just how many people have extremely poor health literacy, especially those from groups who for reasons of race, class, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and/or often a combination of these factors are less likely to have access to accurate health information and culturally competent, trustworthy healthcare providers. When it comes to health and wellness, quite a number of people in our society don't know jack about shit! Even more hold a number of factually inaccurate folk beliefs that range from unhelpful to dangerous. (Hell, even if you have a high degree of health literacy, you probably hold some unexamined false beliefs too, because that's how culture works!) It's true that people are the experts on symptoms as they feel them, but most people are not experts on what those symptoms mean in a medical sense or what can be done about them.

It's a massive blind spot and a symptom of the larger problem of Disability So Educated -- that the vast majority of disability/chronic illness advocates/activists are heard ARE experts on their bodies, because they've had to become experts, but they were able to do so because they are a) literate in English, b) medically literate, c) information literate, and d) have access to and understanding of how to navigate the internet, whereas your average person, particularly your average disabled person, is not. And if you want to create a radical healthcare system that is truly equitable and just -- as opposed to an oligarchy of the educated, i.e. what we have now -- that proposed system has to account for both EDS/MCAS/POTS patients who come in with a 4" three-ring binder of medical literature AND patients who firmly believe that ivermectin cures COVID, vaccines cause autism, co-sleeping with infants is safe, there's no difference between a rescue inhaler and preventative medication, and having an average blood sugar of 600 is perfectly healthy as long as you feel fine.

[arcadian-vampire]

Nnnn I'm dealing w a lot more nausea again today, and I have TWO appointments to deal with :< Insurance Guy and therapy. Booo

[devouredead]

This is a question from @crippled-lavender 's cripple ask game! 7.] what’s your latest horror story from interacting with medical professionals?

Went to my gp the other for some paperwork, went in my chair. This nurse (and by the way, I've been to this hospital in my chair at least half a dozen times before and never had anyone attempt to put their hands on me without permission) decided to push me herself.

My assist stepped in right away and said, "No I've got it" and the nurse decided to respond, "Oh no I can take him back" and my assist had to clarify "No, I'm coming with him, I'm his assist." My hospital allows for you to have companion with you at all times, so when this nurse acted rudely about that too, it was yet another red flag. She did not often address me or ask me what I wanted, but when she did and I indicated it, she was openly dismissive and rude. At one point, I had to turn to get into the room, and this nurse grabbed me and turned me instead, when I tried to put my hands on my wheels she shouted at me that 'she could do it better.' Bitch, what the actual fuck? She was awful the whole visit. She made fun of my very intense phobia of needles, and then somehow managed to be offended when I ceased communicating with her at all and instead went through my assist. She could not manage to address me remotely respectfully, treated me like a tub of meat, and she was mad I stopped engaging with her? We're working on getting her name so I can report her. I did not deserve to be condescended to, manhandled, or berated the way I was, and I only was because I am disabled, as I was constantly reminded. Nobody does.

Disclaimer: I never have gotten asks (that haven't been personal attacks) so I just enjoy answering the questions. Please keep in mind the original post specifies that crippled (physically disabled only) are invited to use the specific questions.

[ithinkiwasbornbored]

glad to see absolutely nothing has changed about diabetes diagnoses in ER departments! (<- so sarcastic it could sweeten a coffee)

[pwrn51]

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[inv3ga]

Reason #583918575 Why My Mom Should Have Already Been Fired From Her Job

Today, my mother was relaying to me a conversation she had with one of her patients about legalizing recreational weed, stating that, "Even John Boehner owns his own dispensary!"

To which her patient replied, "Ah! A fellow republican!"

My mom stared me straight in the eye and said, "Vega, I didn't know any demon protection wards until I unleashed one on his ass and stated in firm tone that everyone in a five room radius could hear, "OH NO, YOU WILL NOT LUMP ME IN WITH YOUR ILK."

AND THEN JUST WALKED AWAY.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’m training the most Gen Z person I’ve ever hung out with, and in addition to being smart and quick, she’s delightful to me specifically as an Old Person (30). She is so linguistically Gen Z, I absolutely love it. We were talking about a patient of ours who wants to maintain a level of independence that some of the floor think is unsafe, but the patient has a lot of support in the room and frankly this is what the patient values more than anything else so we should support that. But it’s not ideal Fall Prevention. Anyway, we’re talking about this and how day shift will probably not stick to the plan we’ve developed tonight, and she goes, fuming, “pov you’re a nurse advocating for your patient but no one listens to you” and I have just been repeating that to myself for hours