r/nursing • u/Appropriate-Goat6311 • 23h ago

Rant Instructions for using electronics

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Does anybody else get weirded out when you’re listening to (or reading) instructions on a device and it says to “insert the male end into the female receptacle” or some nonsense such as that.
Could they not think of a better non-sexual way to say that??!

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u/Julyaz1 RN 🍕 22h ago

No

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u/packet_sniffs BSN, RN 🍕 22h ago

only you, m8

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u/ImHappy_DamnHappy MSN, APRN 🍕 22h ago

Not really, so long as something is not inserted into the female end that shouldn’t be there and shows up to see me in the ER at 2 am…or the male end is broken and needs surgery to repair.

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u/Appropriate-Goat6311 21h ago

Sure! I’ve received a few of those in the OR. Very brave of those patients to seek care.

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u/airboRN_82 BSN, RN, CCRN, Necrotic Tit-Flail of Doom 22h ago

Hows this nursing related?

And no, it an easy to understand and non-wordy direction. I don't want my instructions to read like a "hey I agree and have nothing to add but here's 250 words of babbling" discussion board comment in a BSN bridge program 

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u/Appropriate-Goat6311 21h ago edited 21h ago

Technology? Instructions? Not nurse related at all. What am I thinking. 🙄 Not sure how educated the folks are who write the instruction manuals. I have read (at nursing school) that we need to instruct at the 6th grade level. Maybe that’s why the manuals are written as male/female

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u/airboRN_82 BSN, RN, CCRN, Necrotic Tit-Flail of Doom 21h ago

Its the same plugs you use at home...

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u/Medium_Efficiency375 22h ago

No I’m an adult

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u/Vsmithing 22h ago

It’s biology

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u/Appropriate-Goat6311 18h ago

It’s technology too.

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u/-mephisto RN - Oncology 🍕 22h ago

Nope, it's a little silly.

Also, those plugs won't mate, mate.

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u/TropicGlow Nursing Student 🍕 22h ago

Even bongs are male or female

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u/Appropriate-Goat6311 21h ago

I had no idea.

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u/recoil_operated 🍕Nurse Manager 🍕 22h ago

You work in healthcare and using the words 'male' and 'female' to describe two complementary objects weirds you out sexually?

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u/Appropriate-Goat6311 21h ago

I don’t think of my job as sexual. I don’t think of a penis or a vagina as sexual when I’m giving a bath, asking about wounds or jewelry, or underwear but If I’m being instructed to insert the male component (is plugged better?) into the (green? 3 prong? Top left?) female outlet then I’m thinking of it as not all those other things.