Craftsman
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ORIGINAL: hidemyeyes my top is a registered nurse... all equip will be appropriate if i decide to go through with it... i just want to get some feedback before i make up my mind if i am going to go through with it. I'm a nurse, with experience in suturing, under the watchful gaze of a physician. In my area, at my level of nursing, the State Board holds that the "Placing and/or removal of sutures is beyond the scope of practice..." Hence, I would not venture into that realm unless I had a physician watching over what I was doing. In California, emergency room Nurse Practitioners are the only nurses that suture. I know of none of them, kink-friendly or not, who will do any kind of skin puncturing kink. A group of which I was a member before going to to nursing school invited Ron Athey the performance artist to perform once. When it came time to infuse his scrotum with normal saline, many people moved to the back. When a 50 cc syringe of blood was drawn, many moved toward the door. When that blood was squirted into Ron's mouth, for him to swallow, every medical person in the room left. There are some things that they would not witness, because out here, they said, their licenses were at risk. I don't know if that is true or not, but one doctor and 3 nurses independently said that it was the case, so I had no reason to doubt the veracity of statement. <shrug> other people's mileage may vary, and probably does. To do something outside one's scope of practice is to risk one's license. That holds whether or not one is "on duty" or or off, being paid or not, in or outside the line duty. In California, at least, a RN can work as a Licensed Vocational (Practical) Nurse and even as a Certified Nursing Assistant, for the lower pay, but the kicker is that the RN is held to RN Standards of Care by the state board even if working in these lesser pay grades, or as a volunteer in organized or unorganized activities. My personal feeling is that it is a foolish nurse to risk licensure in this manner. Then again, it has been pointed out to me that I don't know everything. <shrug> Do what you will do, but be careful while doing what you will do. Be safe and sane. Best of success.
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