You know you're a nurse in Alaska when...

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thought this could be a fun topic and people could share their experiences about living and working in AK... for example

You go from being a new grad to charge nurse in three months.

Your hospital runs on generator power more often than not.

The patient you just triaged has a complaint of "fish finger"

A patient just brought you some smoked salmon.

The patient explains the reason they are late to their appointment because "well the plane crash landed in a village and we had to wait for another one to arrive".

Another reason to be late "we stopped to fish along the way"

Specializes in endoscopy.

As an endoscopy nurse, I found myself getting called in for salmon, caribou, and moose meat food bolus. Gross!

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