Vital Signs of Nursing

Hello there, My name is Maria and I'm a new nurse. I decided to create this page to help others navigate through the hardships and challenges of nursing. Enjoy and let this page be of great help in all your endeavors!

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[royalfig]

I’ve never felt more like a character than I do w her

[soapsmoviesfootballfan]

[kaeraesketches]

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✨ I will probably be going quiet again over this week, as my adult kiddo is scheduled for top surgery on Friday, and I need to be there to support him through that. Thanks for being here though, guys! I appreciate you more than you know! 🥰

[moxiebustion]

"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

Lex Luthor, folks. Ten out of ten, no notes.

[sonypraystation]

my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

[agoddamn]

[bogleech]

People in the notes confused because they're so accustomed to running water they don't know how close diarrhea might have otherwise come to killing them if they've had it even once lol it's killed more humans than just about anything in history

[catgirlforeskin]

We’re the granddaughters of the bowels you couldn’t irritate

[kinka-juice]

Mine would be baffled that I've gone 5+ years with bloody diarrhea. Inflammatory Bowel Disease has probably always existed, but they didn't have treatment.

I do want to specifically shout out Dr Thomas Latta, who is the person who gave us IV hydration, and pretty much magically cured cholera with it in his first attempt. From his diary:

I attempted to restore the blood to its natural state, by injecting copiously into the larger intestines warm water.. trusting that the power of absorption might not be altogether lost, but by these means I produced, in no case, any permanent benefit.. I at length resolved to throw the fluid immediately into the circulation. In this, having no precedent to direct me, I proceeded with much caution. The first subject of experiment was an aged female. She had apparently reached the last moments of her earthly existence, and now nothing could injure her – indeed, so entirely was she reduced, that I feared I should be unable to get my apparatus ready ere she expired. Having inserted a tube into the basilic vein, cautiously – anxiously, I watched the effects; ounce after ounce was injected, but no visible change was produced. Still persevering, I though she began to breathe less laboriously, soon the sharpened features, and sunken eye, and fallen jaw, pale and cold, bearing the manifest impress of death's signet, began to glow with returning animation; the pulse, which had long ceased, returned to the wrist; at first small and quick, by degrees it became more and more distinct ... and in the short space of half and hour, when six pints had been injected, she expressed in a firm voice that she was free from all uneasiness, actually became jocular, and fancied all she needed was a little sleep.

Diarrhea can very easily be death by dehydration, especially when you can't consume oral fluids (Cholera causes extreme vomiting as well). Not only did we solve part of the problem with clean water, the other half was learning how to put clean water into our bodies (with salt).

Also fun fact, Thomas Latta was active in England at the same time as John Snow, the father of epidemiology, also in response to the Cholera epidemics at the time.

[sonypraystation]

[severeannoyance]

Throughout history, so many people have worked so hard to alleviate human suffering, misery, and death. You will never know the names of all the people who have spent their life’s passion to take care of you, someone divided from them by decades, even centuries, someone whose existence they’d never know, whose name they’d never hear. But they did it, all the same.

I think this is an important thing to keep in mind.

[sainamoonshine]

I love how two of the greatest inventions in the field of medicine were soap and saline IV

[lierdumoa]

I'm reminded of this time I saw a post complaining, "Why do blind people in movies always have cloudy gray irises? Real blind people don't look like that!"

Yes they do. People with advanced cataracts look like that. Modern cataract surgery has virtually eliminated cataract-induced blindness in places where the surgery is readily available, however cataracts are still the leading cause of blindness worldwide, accounting for over half of world blindness.

[elodieunderglass]

I do love the old case writing, especially the vivid description of rehydrating the old lady!

[sonypraystation]

my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

[agoddamn]

[bogleech]

People in the notes confused because they're so accustomed to running water they don't know how close diarrhea might have otherwise come to killing them if they've had it even once lol it's killed more humans than just about anything in history

[catgirlforeskin]

We’re the granddaughters of the bowels you couldn’t irritate

[kinka-juice]

Mine would be baffled that I've gone 5+ years with bloody diarrhea. Inflammatory Bowel Disease has probably always existed, but they didn't have treatment.

I do want to specifically shout out Dr Thomas Latta, who is the person who gave us IV hydration, and pretty much magically cured cholera with it in his first attempt. From his diary:

I attempted to restore the blood to its natural state, by injecting copiously into the larger intestines warm water.. trusting that the power of absorption might not be altogether lost, but by these means I produced, in no case, any permanent benefit.. I at length resolved to throw the fluid immediately into the circulation. In this, having no precedent to direct me, I proceeded with much caution. The first subject of experiment was an aged female. She had apparently reached the last moments of her earthly existence, and now nothing could injure her – indeed, so entirely was she reduced, that I feared I should be unable to get my apparatus ready ere she expired. Having inserted a tube into the basilic vein, cautiously – anxiously, I watched the effects; ounce after ounce was injected, but no visible change was produced. Still persevering, I though she began to breathe less laboriously, soon the sharpened features, and sunken eye, and fallen jaw, pale and cold, bearing the manifest impress of death's signet, began to glow with returning animation; the pulse, which had long ceased, returned to the wrist; at first small and quick, by degrees it became more and more distinct ... and in the short space of half and hour, when six pints had been injected, she expressed in a firm voice that she was free from all uneasiness, actually became jocular, and fancied all she needed was a little sleep.

Diarrhea can very easily be death by dehydration, especially when you can't consume oral fluids (Cholera causes extreme vomiting as well). Not only did we solve part of the problem with clean water, the other half was learning how to put clean water into our bodies (with salt).

Also fun fact, Thomas Latta was active in England at the same time as John Snow, the father of epidemiology, also in response to the Cholera epidemics at the time.

[sonypraystation]

[severeannoyance]

Throughout history, so many people have worked so hard to alleviate human suffering, misery, and death. You will never know the names of all the people who have spent their life’s passion to take care of you, someone divided from them by decades, even centuries, someone whose existence they’d never know, whose name they’d never hear. But they did it, all the same.

I think this is an important thing to keep in mind.

[sainamoonshine]

I love how two of the greatest inventions in the field of medicine were soap and saline IV

[lierdumoa]

I'm reminded of this time I saw a post complaining, "Why do blind people in movies always have cloudy gray irises? Real blind people don't look like that!"

Yes they do. People with advanced cataracts look like that. Modern cataract surgery has virtually eliminated cataract-induced blindness in places where the surgery is readily available, however cataracts are still the leading cause of blindness worldwide, accounting for over half of world blindness.

[elodieunderglass]

I do love the old case writing, especially the vivid description of rehydrating the old lady!

[inahochi]

You're a mess. Shouldn't you rest? Yes, I'm very tired. Don't sleep here, please! Why not? I'm tired. I mean... This place is unclean. I'm aware. So... [Jinshi-sama's hands are so cold.]

THE APOTHECARY DIARIES  ⋆  薬屋のひとりごと (2025)

#48. the beginning ⋆ はじまり

[ghost-bison]

kind of obsessed with the idea of ood sigma appearing to ten like "ight bro me and the gang spent the last 3 months writing a sick track for you to pop out to cause we know you're fucking dramatic" and ten just rolling with it and dying to this epic religious hymn that literally says "farewell ten"

[cicatrixobscura]

[theinternetarchive]

a few more great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

first list, second list

aggregate letterboxd list, archive list of all the films

perfect blue (1997) dir. satoshi kon

carol (2015) dir. todd haynes

the elephant man (1980) dir. david lynch

a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour

d.e.b.s. (2004) dir. angela robinson

nausicaa of the valley of the wind (1984) dir. hayao miyazaki

killer klowns from outer space (1988) dir. stephen chiodo

mommy (2014) dir. xavier dolan

jennifer's body (2009) dir. karyn kusama

suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento

battleship potemkin (1925) dir. sergei eisenstein

his girl friday (1940) dir. howard hawks

cube (1997) dir. vincenzo natali

nightcrawler (2014) dir. dan gilroy

black orpheus (1959) dir. marcel camus

chunking express (1994) dir. wong kar wai

meeting people is easy: a film about radiohead (1998) dir. grant gee

the grapes of wrath (1940) dir. john ford

the black cat (1941) dir. albert s rogell

the tin star (1957) dir. anthony mann

[katebeckets]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [76/?] ⤷ 10.03 — “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”

#married

[only-cat-memes]

[ampervadasz]

[wickedwonderlandd]

Get off my lawn you crazy kids!

[knittings-and-things]

[ilovecats4ever]

endemic warfare as enrichment?

[captain-price-unofficially]

Same zoo.

[elodieunderglass]

Blanket? Blanket? Blanket! Blanket blanket - blanket?

[sandersstudies]

Highly recommend parents sign kids up for things they’ve never tried before so they can try a variety of things.

Highly don’t recommend parents continue to force their kids to stay in activities after the kid has given it a proper try and said they don’t like it.

[sandersstudies]

I work for a youth theatre. A lot of kids have never tried theatre before and come in very hesitant or doubtful but actually enjoy it once they’ve had a chance to try it in a positive environment.

There are also a lot of parents who continue to force their kid to attend despite the kid literally not enjoying their time onstage, and it’s a huge drag on enthusiastic kids who are enjoying their time.

[sandersstudies]

Not as common but I also have children of divorce who enthusiastically participate but can only come to half of the rehearsals or activities because their second parent simply refuses to let them go, even when they ask to.

Anyway maybe just believe in kids in general? A nudge to try something a little scary for the first time can be great but if you find you're shoving them in one direction again and again maybe question whether that's the right place or activity for them.

[seventytwo-waterellens]

I am begging you guys to get your news from somewhere other than social media. Of course social media can be valuable, but it is NOT a replacement for actual news outlets that have reporters, researchers, fact checkers, experts to interview, and years of background.

Do not learn everything you know about Iran from tumblr or Instagram or tiktok. Information is important and accuracy even more so. No one is immune to misinformation and propaganda (from MANY angles) and we have to do better.

[mk-wizard]

The many shades of feminity

It can be loud.

It can be subtle.

It can be sultry.

It can be modest.

It can be sensitive.

It can be strong.

It can be casual.

It can be elegant.

It can be innocent.

It can be wise.

It can be vulnerable.

It can be heroic.

It can go hard.

It can go light.

It can be angelic.

It can be frightening.

It can be serious.

It can be playful.

It can be good.

It can be bad.

It can be down to Earth.

It can be otherworldly.

It can be badass.

It can be nerdy.

It can be upheld by women.

It can be carried well by men too.

It can be cute.

It can be dark.

It can be romantic.

It can be solitary.

But the one thing that femininity is NOT is something to be ashamed of. Please, don't erase femininity from our world or our fiction. It's not a one trick pony and it brings a lot beauty even when the character or setting not feminine. We all tap into our feminine side from time to time. And don't be ashamed to be feminine yourself.