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Hi, I'm a nurse who works in an extended Role in the canadian Great north in very remote locations in Indigenous villages, often without doctors present. We are 911, ambulance dispatch and our first responders are often just drivers with basic CPR and first aid. In the last 30 months I have seen more horrors and atrocities than I could have ever imagined in the rest of my 20+ year nursing career.

I am growing as a medical practitioner, but finding that the former nursing colleagues cannot even half fathom the things I experience constantly. Degloving accidents and intentional snowmobile traumas... rape of children 3 and under, code orange with multiple casualties in a clinic that houses 8 nurses in the entire village, countless mental health emergencies and traumas secondary to intoxication. I'm so glad to seem to have found a community of first responders who may come somewhere close to having seen, smelled, heard or touched some of the things I have...

Thank you for being here.

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