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Is there a spot on the school form to indicate? If not, then don't chart more than you have to. On school/work PE forms, I fill out what's asked and no more. Of the occupations/schools a) that require a PE form be filled out, and b) where a person's circumcision status matters, I don't think the Venn diagram circles overlap too much. On our EMR, there is a spot for intact foreskin vs. circumcised. I chart there, just like I'd chart if I saw Mongolian spots on a baby's butt. It's an observation, nothing more.

At my school/for my project, we were not required to list them as co-authors of the actual project morificecript write-up/dissertation/whatever your school calls it. That was ours and ours alone, although to be fair our (or at least my) project chairs were hands-off about actual editing parts; my chair reviewed my work periodically to make sure it was going in a good direction, and made helpful suggestions here and there, but we were not required to list them as co-authors of the dissertation (DNP degree here). However, had we submitted the project to a peer-reviewed journal, they did require that we list our chair as a co-author. So, TL/DR - yes.

Cluster your cares. Swaddle, white noise, dim the lights/cover isolette/crib with a blanket if you can do so safely. Pacifiers are your best friend. Anything you can do to decrease your baby's exposure to stimuli will help. Do you have something that smells like mom (an old tshirt, a nursing pad, anything at all, if it doesn't smell like cigarettes use it) that can be put close to baby so s/he can smell mom? Sometimes those kids are hard to console and you have to do whatever works. What scheduled/PRNs do you have at your disposal? USE THEM. If they don't have any, advocate for some. At my old job we used methadone, phenobarb, and clonidine and that worked for most of the kids.

I would also highly recommend How to Survive a Plague by David France. It's mostly patient centered, and focuses on people with HIV/AIDS and how much of what we know now, and many of the medicines we use to treat HIV, we have because people in those early days did not stop demanding better from government and medicine, even as they were literally dying on the FDA's doorstep. It's riveting....and heartbreaking.

I don't think there's anything wrong with keeping your social media life and your work life separate, and I wouldn't be offended if a coworker told me they do this. I do think it's probably better for workplace relationships if you tell why, though. I'm starting a new job tomorrow and this will definitely be my plan.

Thanks for the clarification. So, if a kid is questioning their sexuality, they're probably not going to be on hormones unless they're also certain their gender identity differs from their assigned sex, and sometimes not even then until they're a certain age. Sexuality is who they're attracted to. Gender identity is who they are. Everyone, us posting here included, gets one from category A, one from category B. I have found this resource to be extremely helpful with regard to trans health issues, and some of the questions you've got will be answered. I spent hours one night reading through most of this stuff and it was riveting. Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People: Fertility options for transgender persons

If you don't want to contract HIV from your patients, don't have sex with them, share tattoo or IV drug needles with them, or transfuse yourself with their blood. If you don't do those things, you will be fine. Furthermore, the CDC's most recent statement suggests that if the pt's viral load is undetectable, then they really can't transmit HIV. Years ago, when I was a brand new nurse, I had a pt whose AV fistula had abscessed. He was HIV+. His fistula ruptured on my shift, and I ran into his room and instinctively slammed my bare hand down on top of the artery shooting blood shooting out of his arm onto the walls and ceiling. He yelled at me to grab gloves, but I wasn't moving my hand, and at that point my hand was already covered in his blood. If I didn't get HIV from that, there is no way you will get HIV from a pt interview. The nurse that told you to wear gloves is stupid and wrong, and reeks to me of the phobia we dealt with in the 80s.

I do think it's important for primary care providers to discuss this with adolescents at office visits, and I agree with the member who said we mostly need to be listening. But if we don't ask we risk not uncovering what may be a source of great anxiety. "Some teenagers have questions about their gender identity/whether their assigned birth sex matches what their brain tells them/[whatever phrase you want to use], and that's perfectly normal as they're trying to figure out their place in the world. Any questions about it that I can answer for you?" (Or, "Does this sound like you or anyone you know?" might work. Teens sometimes like to ask about 'a friend' when they're seeking info for themselves.) A 12- or 13-yo is not going to be surgically transitioning, but they may take GnRH blockers to delay the onset of puberty while transitioning socially. Hormones come a little later in adolescence. A lot of trans therapy is close monitoring while weighing risks/benefits; hormones aren't risk-free, but neither is forcing a trans adolescent to live in a body that they don't want. (Let me say now: I fully understand that not every trans person wants to surgically transition, and that decision should be respected in either direction.) There is a high incidence of mental health issues in transpeople, but it's not because they're defective, it's due to shame and stigma. THAT'S wrong. If a care provider told my kid (trans or otherwise) to honor the body they were given, I would interpret that as them being told that dysphoria's is not legitimate, and that's inappropriate. Trans kids, especially, are so so vulnerable, and they are almost assuredly going to have a lot of adults in their lives telling them what to do. They're going to need a soft place to land. Based on what we know about sex, gender, and development, it's scientifically sound that we be that for them.

This. Just like the ADN, BSN, whatever is the degree you hold and the RN is the license, it's very similar with NP certifications. The DNP (or MSN, whatever) is the degree one holds, and NP is the certification. There are a ton of different NP certs. I wasn't married to the idea of getting my doctorate, but now that I'm done with it I love the idea of never having to go back to school if I don't want to. (And right now, I don't!) A new grad NP is a new grad NP. It doesn't make much of a difference in your clinical skills starting out, although I did do a residency before graduating, but there are some leadership and research hours that aren't part of a MSN.

Identifying obvious bias, calling out poor-quality evidence, and outing unreliable (i.e. clearly flawed and/or unreproducible) research qualifies as neither bigotry nor an attack. Darling, please. Christians are not under attack in this country. This Mennonite asks you to take that baloney elsewhere.

OMG, something similar happened in our house when our son (4 at the time, now 13) asked for a Tinkerbell tea set and tree house. My husband flipped his lid and said his son wasn't gonna be playing with girl toys. I asked the husband what he would do the day his daughter (with whom I was pregnant) wanted to play with a dumptruck. Somehow that was 'different' lol. (My mom invoked Grandma privilege and Santa brought the Tinkerbell stuff to her house and it somehow found its way to our house. He played with it for like 3 weeks then decided to leave it for his sister to play with when she's older.) This idea that toys and clothes etc. are for boys or girls is just absurd. As the trans comedian Eddie Izzard once famously said, "I don't wear women's dresses. I wear my dresses. They're mine, I bought them. Women wear what they like, and so do I."

A lot of people don't know this, but it's possible to care about more than one thing. Your post reeks of, "I can't logically refute their actions, so I'll deflect to other stuff and attack their appearance."

Two completely different discussions. Yes, kids should be kind to those in their midst who might be lonely. But that's not going to help with the issue of legislators in bed with the NRA and refuse to do ANYthing to help them be safer in school.

They're kids. They're doing a hell of a lot more meaningful stuff than I did at 13. They don't hold a lot of political power, so they're doing the best they can with what they have. I'll cut them some slack for stopping off at the school nurse. They're still kids. My 13yo came home upset that about half the walker-outers acted stupid during the walkout at his school and just used as an excuse to get out of class. And he talked about the cold, but he said that people in Michigan were doing it (we're in the South), so if Michigan can deal with it so could he.

My kid's school district supported any kids who wanted to walk out. At his middle school they're having a voluntary 'walkout' assembly today where they could talk about what they think needs to happen for school shootings to stop, and if they want to make posters there will be stuff there so they can, or so he told me. All with the blessing of teachers. I asked him if there was any group of parents to come sign the kids out so they can actually leave the campus, because if there is, even if we just walk across the street for 17 minutes, I'd have done it. His response: "God, Mom, no. Don't show up at my school any more than you absolutely have to." He's still 13 and I'm still Mom and I still embarrass the hell out of him. (Just one more free service I offer.) I do admire these kids and fully support them. They're way more politically aware and far more ballsy than I was at that age.