#nursing week

[melaniekudo]

Duty mode on

[melaniekudo]

I can only hope for the best.

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[dabblesco]

It's National Nurses Week!

(Plus, my book is on SALE!) And so we are subjected to several interviews (CBC Ontario This Morning, for example) with people who have no idea what nursing is. This morning a very patient nurse practitioner had to explain multiple times what a nurse PRACTITIONER does as vs. a regular nurse. Their expanded role is essential to the provision of primary health care, and they and other specialist…

[teainkstudies]

one day, two cafes, and a whole lot of studying 🤍

[drenched-in-sunlight]

somos livres como girassóis de Van Gogh

(we are free like Van Gogh’s sunflowers)

[edmcmayonnaise]

@painlandweek Day 7 - Red Thread of Fate You will always be my greatest adventure.

[dykedvonte]

I think it says something that Jimmy absolutely destroyed the crew and ship in half the time Curly was captain. Like he couldn’t even get them past 2 full months before breaking down.

Like he really couldn’t be half the man he thought Curly was.

[sweetlullabyebye]

Love was actually invented when Charles decided he'd rather be stuck in Hell than leave Edwin there alone

[catnoli]

carrd | faq | ko-fi | shop

rhodochrosite nurse shark 🎀💌 + february’s silly mail reveal bc i wanted to do some variation of a pink shark for valentines day this year <3 also based on libras!! ♎️⚖️

[yuutaguro]

helllloooooOOO nurse! 🏥

[melaniekudo]

Join us in celebrating Filipino American History Month this October! We are proud to honor the countless achievements and contributions made by Filipinos throughout American history, including the important impact of Filipino nurses to the healthcare workforce. To our Filipino associates, providers, patients and community, we extend our heartfelt gratitude. Salamat! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

October is Filipino American History Month, a time to celebrate the rich contributions of Filipinos in the United States. As a nurse in the U.S., I reflect on my journey from the Philippines with gratitude. Achieving my goal of practicing nursing here has been a testament to my hard work and the support of my community.

Filipino nurses have played a vital role in the healthcare system, and I’m proud to be part of this legacy. Each day, I strive to honor the sacrifices and achievements of those who came before me, bringing compassion and care to my patients. This month, I celebrate not only my accomplishments but also the resilience and strength of the Filipino American community.

[destielmemenews]

"The researchers have not tested the process on humans, and it’s not clear what dosage of dye or delivery method would be necessary. Human skin is about 10 times thicker than that of a mouse, according to the researchers.

“Looking forward, this technology could make veins more visible, easing … the procedure of drawing blood or administering fluids via a needle — especially for elderly patients with veins that are difficult to locate,” said senior author Guosong Hong, a Stanford assistant professor of materials science, via email.

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[konigofmyheart]

When you’re sick…

könig becomes a five star bedside nurse!

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you need tissues? "here, liebling, got these with lotion so they don't irritate that cute nose of yours" as he's oh so delicately blotting at your runny eyes + nose. he tosses them in the bin he placed next to the bed so you don't have to get up so often.

you're throwing up? "there, there, hase, get it all out. do what you need to do. i got you." as he's soothingly rubbing your back while smoothing back your hair. he brings a cup of water to your mouth, helping you rinse out the taste and wipes your chin gently.

you're hungry? "that's great, engel! what do you want to eat? need me to pick something up or make something? whatever you want, you'll have." for every bite you eat, you earn a warm, sweet kiss to the forehead. (if it was up to him he'd kiss you right on the mouth but you don't want him to get sick as well)

there's no one more stubborn in the whole universe than he is about you taking your meds. "please, baby, for me?" of course you get more forehead kisses as a reward. what can you say, he drives a hard bargain.

and when you just need him? trust, he's there. holding you snuggly in his warm arms, staving off your shivers, cooing sweet nothings at you when you wake up between deep sleeps, begging you to “drink some more water so you'll get better quicker, schätzchen.”

he’ll do anything for you <3

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liebling: darling

hase: bunny

engel: angel

schätzchen: baby

[captainjonnitkessler]

I understand if you want to stay out of it but I’m curious as to you’re thoughts on this discourse

https://www.tumblr.com/dappercat123/737173649266737152/your-arguments-sum-to-in-my-perfect-world-there

Anon, I'm going to be entirely honest with you. I have been waiting for an excuse to put my thoughts about this down. Forewarning that this is going to be long and take a dim view of organized religion.

TL;DR: I think everyone in that thread is maliciously misinterpreting evilsoup's point, which is basically that they think Gene Roddenberry was right about what a post-utopian society would look like re: religion. And you can agree or disagree about whether a post-religious utopia is likely or desirable, but to say that anyone who thinks it is is actively calling for and encouraging genocide is a gross misuse of the term (especially coming from at least one person that I'm pretty sure is currently denying an actively ongoing actual fucking genocide).

@evilsoup can correct me if I'm misinterpreting their points, but as far as I see it there are two main points being made:

A) In a perfect utopia with absolutely no source of oppression, marginalization, or disparity, religion would naturally whither away with no outside pressure being applied.

B) This would be a good or at least a neutral thing.

As far as A) goes - a lot of the responses evilsoup got were basically "well *I* would never choose to be nonreligious, so therefore the only way to create that world would be by force, and therefore you are calling for literal genocide". But aside from the fact that evilsoup was very, very clear that they thought this would be a *natural* event and that trying to force people to be nonreligious would be evil - we're not talking about (general) you. You can be as religious as you want but you don't get to make that choice for your grandkids, or your great-great-great grandkids, or your great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandkids. Just because religion is an integral part of your identity doesn't mean it's something you can pass down, and if you're not comfortable with the idea that your kids might choose to leave your religion, you shouldn't have kids.

I personally don't foresee religion disappearing entirely, but it is pretty consistent that as a country becomes happier, healthier, and wealthier, it also becomes less religious. Religiosity is inversely correlated with progressive values. And the more democratic and secular a nation is, the less powerful religious authorities become - In the 1600s blasphemy and atheism were punishable by death* in Massachusetts and today I can call the Pope a cunt to his face** on Twitter with no repercussions whatsoever. Political secularism is an absolute necessity for true democracy and it necessitates removing power from religious authorities, which has and will likely continue to lead to a decline in religiosity - not just a decline in how many people identify as religious, but also a decline in how religious the remaining people are.

*Blasphemy laws and death penalties for blasphemers/apostates are still VERY much a thing in many places. It's hard to see a path where those places become more democratic but don't become more secular and repeal those laws.

**Well, to the face of whoever runs his Twitter account, but the point remains.

I also believe that many religious communities have been held together for so long via coercion - either internal coercion like blasphemy and apostasy laws, shunning, and threats of hell or other supernatural punishment, or external coercion like oppression from the majority religious group or ethnic cleansings. In a perfect utopia, neither form of coercion would exist and I don't think it's crazy to think that religiosity would drop severely and become a much less important part of people's identities, in the way I think the queer community would not exist in a world where queerphobia didn't exist.

ANYWAY, all this is actually kind of moot. It could happen, it could not, nobody is calling for it to be forced so we'll just have to wait and see. The real point of disagreement is on B).

I'm gonna be honest - I think a lot of the responders are rank hypocrites and are really hung up on the idea of cultural purity, which is something I'm wildly uncomfortable with.

First of all, the idea that a deeply-held religious belief could be diluted until it's just a cultural thing that nobody really remembers the origins of isn't some evil mastermind plot evilsoup is trying to concoct, it's just how cultures work. There's tons of stuff about American culture that are vaguely rooted in what were once deeply-held beliefs and are now entertainment. Halloween is rooted in sacred tradition and now it's a day to dress up and get candy. Christmas is one of the most sacred holidays in Christianity but nobody bats an eye if a non-Christian puts up some lights or decorates a tree just because it's fun. I have no doubt that every culture on Earth has traditions that used to be deeply sacred but are now just fun family traditions. People in Japan use Christian symbology as an "exotic, mythical" aesthetic the exact same way people in the West use Eastern symbology. And if you're okay with it happening to Christianity, why wouldn't you be okay with it happening to any other religion in the absence of oppression?

And there's the idea that if a culture fails to get passed down *exactly* as it is now, it's a terrible loss and the result of malicious outside influence. But . . . cultures change over time. No culture is the same now as it was two or five or eight hundred years ago and I don't believe that change is inherently loss. The things that are sacred to you may or may not be sacred to the people of your culture in the future. That's just the way things work, and I don't think it's inherently good or bad.

And finally, people keep accusing evilsoup of "just wanting everyone to assimilate to your culture", but it absolutely does not follow that a lack of religion means a lack of diversity. Different nonreligious cultures are every bit as capable of being diverse as different religious cultures, so it's weird to insist that evilsoup wants there to only be one culture when they never said anything to indicate that.

[mysticgalaxiez]

Netflix added Dead Boy Detectives to the new Netflix & Chills Halloween Section, (they are clearly starting to fck with us by promoting it now during the Halloween season 😒)

anyways keep streaming and keep being loud on social media! it’s very important if we want to get our show back!

[emberglowfox]

keepers as st sebastian and the angel

happy birthday, dearests