Post by Amandus on Jan 11, 2016 20:25:08 GMT -5
How do the nurses care for their Clanmates?
The nurse is not a licensed professional: her Clanmates are certainly taking many risks putting their trust in her when they get sick or hurt. Despite having no experience in true medical training, the nurses over the years have managed to study and come to conclusions to improve sanitation within their camps to help prevent many diseases- however, some have prevailed anyway.
The nurse usually keeps casts and braces in her tent to give to warriors that have hurt their limbs out patrolling. She should also have many rolls of bandages for any major cuts or scrapes. However, there are some injuries that she cannot treat- if a warrior breaks her spine or fractures her skull, it's over.
As a last resort for an untreatable injury or illness that causes an Outcast to suffer senselessly, the nurse may use a form of euthanasia. This obviously cannot be the lethal injection that veterinarians use, or that physicians use in prison. Instead, the Outcast would have to be shot in the head with an arrow. This death is supposed to be quick and painless, but some Outcasts argue the ethics of it, since it is treated like an execution.
Most nurses hope that they never have to face the unbearable task of euthanizing a Clanmate. Meanwhile, they are looking for possible new treatments and prevention of the health problems the Outcasts face daily.
List of diseases:
Lyme Disease
Caused by infected ticks, but sadly antibiotics are the only treatment. All cases must be left untreated, and the disease eventually phases out, but an Outcast may later develop problems with their nervous system, heart, or joints. Some Domestics have also been infected by this within the park.
Head lice
Uncommon in Outcasts, but the only available treatment is special lice shampoo which the nurse may or may not possess.
Common Cold
This goes away on its own, but the nurse usually has cold medicine to shorten it and reduce the symptoms. Rarely, it can develop into pneumonia.
Influenza
Can cause pneumonia if left untreated. Flu medicine is often available by campers.
Pneumonia
A respiratory disease that may evolve from an untreated flu, and to the Outcasts a death sentence. It is diagnosed by the nurse determining if a Clanmate's cough is coming from her chest, but she can do very little to treat it, and it is a slow, painful killer. Likely for decades to come, pneumonia will continue to terrorize the Outcasts, being responsible for over half of all deaths.
Typhoid
Poor sanitation causes this fever, and it was most common in the Outcasts from 2003-2005. It usually isn't fatal in modern society, even without treatment, but it has caused a number of deaths for the Outcasts. Domestics always treat it with antibiotics, but nurses prevented further cases with improved hygiene.
Dysentery
Inflammation of the intestines caused by food or eating utensils contaminated with certain bacteria, viruses, parasites, or even protozoa. Like typhoid, it was mostly the original Outcasts who dealt with this. In the end, it killed very few Outcasts.
Hantavirus
Visitors in the park have had issues with this in the past, and so did the early Outcasts. Along with tourists, the original Outcasts didn't protect their tents and food piles well enough against rodents. Its symptoms can be mistaken for the flu, or even pneumonia, and the nurses still don't have a treatment. It is rarely fatal.
Intestinal Worms
Caused by contact with contaminated soil, water, or meat. Nurses have not developed a treatment for this with herbs, and so the infected person must be euthanized.
Dehydration
During the summer, warriors sometimes neglect their thirst when preoccupied by patrolling. Sometimes to the point of passing out, their Clanmates may have no choice but to give them untreated river water. Most of the time, each patrol is given a bottle full of treated water to prevent this.
Malnutrition
The Outcasts have always had trouble getting enough nutrients, especially vitamins, from what they eat on a day-to-day basis. Symptoms include lethargy, brittle hair, weak immune system, and weight loss. When raiding, the Outcasts try to look for a variety of foods to help their Clanmates get proper nutrition.
Hypothermia
When facing extreme cold, especially in high altitudes, the body's temperature can fall dangerously low. This is simply prevented by the Outcasts by wearing many layers, staying by the fire, and not staying in the mountains in winter for too long.
List of herbs:
The nurse often collects plants on patrols to use as ailments, or research them if no use for them has yet been found.
Monkey-Flower
Coming in the scarlet, Lewis's, seep-spring, and mountain varieties, monkey-flowers are used by nurses as pain-killers, both for wounds and diseases. They may also remedy anxiety.
Penstamon
The sierra and meadow species appear in Yosemite. These are known to inhibit inflammation and heal wounds. When boiled, it may also cure coughing, and possibly, even internal bleeding.
Shooting Star
Nurses are currently working with these to find their functions. However, Native Americans supposedly used them to help with dry and sore eyes.
Groundsel
Species of the arrowleaf and single-stemmed types grow in the park. They may cure headache and nausea in the stomach.
Sierra Butterweed
This is used against diarrhea, inflammation, and can stop external bleeding.
Columbine
The alpine and crimson varieties are used. The nurses have used them for sore throats, and the seeds can have benefits for the liver.
Sierra Lessingia
Nurses have not found a use for this, yet.
The nurse is not a licensed professional: her Clanmates are certainly taking many risks putting their trust in her when they get sick or hurt. Despite having no experience in true medical training, the nurses over the years have managed to study and come to conclusions to improve sanitation within their camps to help prevent many diseases- however, some have prevailed anyway.
The nurse usually keeps casts and braces in her tent to give to warriors that have hurt their limbs out patrolling. She should also have many rolls of bandages for any major cuts or scrapes. However, there are some injuries that she cannot treat- if a warrior breaks her spine or fractures her skull, it's over.
As a last resort for an untreatable injury or illness that causes an Outcast to suffer senselessly, the nurse may use a form of euthanasia. This obviously cannot be the lethal injection that veterinarians use, or that physicians use in prison. Instead, the Outcast would have to be shot in the head with an arrow. This death is supposed to be quick and painless, but some Outcasts argue the ethics of it, since it is treated like an execution.
Most nurses hope that they never have to face the unbearable task of euthanizing a Clanmate. Meanwhile, they are looking for possible new treatments and prevention of the health problems the Outcasts face daily.
List of diseases:
Lyme Disease
Caused by infected ticks, but sadly antibiotics are the only treatment. All cases must be left untreated, and the disease eventually phases out, but an Outcast may later develop problems with their nervous system, heart, or joints. Some Domestics have also been infected by this within the park.
Head lice
Uncommon in Outcasts, but the only available treatment is special lice shampoo which the nurse may or may not possess.
Common Cold
This goes away on its own, but the nurse usually has cold medicine to shorten it and reduce the symptoms. Rarely, it can develop into pneumonia.
Influenza
Can cause pneumonia if left untreated. Flu medicine is often available by campers.
Pneumonia
A respiratory disease that may evolve from an untreated flu, and to the Outcasts a death sentence. It is diagnosed by the nurse determining if a Clanmate's cough is coming from her chest, but she can do very little to treat it, and it is a slow, painful killer. Likely for decades to come, pneumonia will continue to terrorize the Outcasts, being responsible for over half of all deaths.
Typhoid
Poor sanitation causes this fever, and it was most common in the Outcasts from 2003-2005. It usually isn't fatal in modern society, even without treatment, but it has caused a number of deaths for the Outcasts. Domestics always treat it with antibiotics, but nurses prevented further cases with improved hygiene.
Dysentery
Inflammation of the intestines caused by food or eating utensils contaminated with certain bacteria, viruses, parasites, or even protozoa. Like typhoid, it was mostly the original Outcasts who dealt with this. In the end, it killed very few Outcasts.
Hantavirus
Visitors in the park have had issues with this in the past, and so did the early Outcasts. Along with tourists, the original Outcasts didn't protect their tents and food piles well enough against rodents. Its symptoms can be mistaken for the flu, or even pneumonia, and the nurses still don't have a treatment. It is rarely fatal.
Intestinal Worms
Caused by contact with contaminated soil, water, or meat. Nurses have not developed a treatment for this with herbs, and so the infected person must be euthanized.
Dehydration
During the summer, warriors sometimes neglect their thirst when preoccupied by patrolling. Sometimes to the point of passing out, their Clanmates may have no choice but to give them untreated river water. Most of the time, each patrol is given a bottle full of treated water to prevent this.
Malnutrition
The Outcasts have always had trouble getting enough nutrients, especially vitamins, from what they eat on a day-to-day basis. Symptoms include lethargy, brittle hair, weak immune system, and weight loss. When raiding, the Outcasts try to look for a variety of foods to help their Clanmates get proper nutrition.
Hypothermia
When facing extreme cold, especially in high altitudes, the body's temperature can fall dangerously low. This is simply prevented by the Outcasts by wearing many layers, staying by the fire, and not staying in the mountains in winter for too long.
List of herbs:
The nurse often collects plants on patrols to use as ailments, or research them if no use for them has yet been found.
Monkey-Flower
Coming in the scarlet, Lewis's, seep-spring, and mountain varieties, monkey-flowers are used by nurses as pain-killers, both for wounds and diseases. They may also remedy anxiety.
Penstamon
The sierra and meadow species appear in Yosemite. These are known to inhibit inflammation and heal wounds. When boiled, it may also cure coughing, and possibly, even internal bleeding.
Shooting Star
Nurses are currently working with these to find their functions. However, Native Americans supposedly used them to help with dry and sore eyes.
Groundsel
Species of the arrowleaf and single-stemmed types grow in the park. They may cure headache and nausea in the stomach.
Sierra Butterweed
This is used against diarrhea, inflammation, and can stop external bleeding.
Columbine
The alpine and crimson varieties are used. The nurses have used them for sore throats, and the seeds can have benefits for the liver.
Sierra Lessingia
Nurses have not found a use for this, yet.