ER nurse warns you should never drive anywhere with a full bladder

Warning: This article contains discussion of child loss which some readers may find distressing.

An emergency room nurse has shared the things she would never do after learning from the patients she's treated.

Karlie Tooley is an experienced medical assistant who has cared for thousands of people in her more than eight years on the front line of hospitals in California.

The ER nurse has taken to social media to urge her followers to heed her warning and to take caution, while going about your daily business.

Her one-minute-29-second video, which was uploaded to TikTok, was captioned: "Some of my nursing non negotiables."

Tooley opens up the video with: "After working in the emergency room for eight years here's the list of things you will never catch me or my family doing."

Riding a motorcycle

First up on her list is riding a motorcyle, which she labelled a 'hard and fast no'.

"I don't care how many classes you've taken, how good of a motorcycle driver, how aware you are," she said.

"Motorcycle versus vehicle, high-speed collision - never good."

Feet on the dash

Next up she explained why she wouldn't ever put her feet up on the dashboard, while riding shotgun in the front of a car.

Tooley explained: "Imagine your feet are up on the dashboard, the front of the vehicle impacts [using her fingers she demonstrated that your legs would bend all the way back behind you]. Your hips and your pelvis, [makes an explosion noise with her mouth] disaster."

Driving with a full bladder

Okay, this is the craziest of all the scenarios - Tooley warns that you should never drive anywhere with a full bladder.

I'll let the pro explain this one on her own.

"Getting in [the car] to drive anywhere with a full bladder, if you have to pee before you get in your car to go anywhere, go pee. If you get in a car accident with a full bladder, and you perforate your bladder, no thank you."

A punctured bladder is a common occurence and can lead to complications.

Urology Care Foundation writes: "You can prevent bladder trauma from a car crash by wearing a seat belt properly. The seat belt should be worn as a lap belt, and not across the belly.

"During a car crash, passengers with a full bladder wearing a seat belt around the belly may have the force of the crash focus on the full bladder."

Having a gate around a swimming pool

She went on to also warn about putting a gate around swimming pools, explaining: "I quite literally cannot put into words the sound a mother makes when she has lost a child from drowning."

Tooley also urged parents to put a helmet on their little ones while they're riding a bike, scooter, or even rollerblades, and for people not to take a chainsaw up a ladder.

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