Traumatic Space
Mar06
on 2017-03-06
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An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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“Medic” is probably a much better term than “nurse” these days. The vocation may have evolved out of of women paid to be wetnurses (as in, to whip their teats out to feed someone else’ babies, whose mothers weren’t producing enough milk to feed them, but had money to pay for some childcare) however it’s been a long time since THAT was part of the job description. I think we can retire the term “nurse” by now (at least in respect to medical care professionals).
‘Medic’ kinda has more of a military, combat, tone though, whereas ‘nurse’ still implies helping someone get better (a doctor patches you up, the nurse makes sure the doctor did a proper job and assists with the wellbeing)
I mostly think of that as the military getting ahead of the game in dropping the term “nurse”. Ain’t nobody breastfeeding in uniform on the battlefield (I should hope).
A nurse is actually considered a higher level of training than a Medic. In the military a Medic 8s on a par with an EMT or paramedic in we just let them do the job they’ve trained for rather than having a doctor have to diagnose things through a proxy. There are also multiple levels of nurse and it gets rather complicated especially as the rules differ in different States, much less countries.
https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/blog/different-levels-of-nursing/
Locally, there’s three levels of nurse:
PSW (Personal Support Worker) doing all the hands-on caregiving work (bathing, feeding, cleaning, etc). 1 year of vocational training.
RPN (Registered Practical Nurse) 2 year training program. That 2nd year is mainly focused on learning about medications, and RPNs most often find themselves tasked with managing and dispensing medications to all the patients in their facility.
RN (Registered Nurse) is a 4 year training program. They are almost doctors in their own right, except more visibly present and working in one location rather than moving around from patient to patient. In Hospitals they are often in management positions directing the other two categories. They also make an extremely good hourly wage for their 12-hour hospital shifts, in part because there’s greater demand for them than a supply exists.