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These 3 capsules came out of these 2 packages, somehow. I peeled them and dumped them into a pill cup. As I was handing the cup to the patient I looked inside and there were 3 capsules instead of the expected 2. I was so confused, I took them out in the hallway to get my phone and take a picture to confirm I was not hallucinating. It was 2am when this happened. I tried to fit 2 of them in the blister pack and they really had to be squished to fit so it makes NO sense to me how this could have happened! Anyone ever experienced this? submitted by /u/Beginning_Fun_3913 [link] [comments]
Nursing school covers a lot of the clinical side but almost every nurse I have talked to says the real lessons came later, usually the hard way. For me it was realizing charting takes way longer than school ever let on and it eats into time you thought you had for patients. Wondering what it was for you, could be something clinical, a time management issue, or just getting through a rough shift. What is the one thing you wish someone had told you before you learned it on your own. submitted by /u/Diligent_Bridge_1674 [link] [comments]
I’m just randomly eating lunch in the middle of a chaotic shift and thinking about how grateful I am to be a nurse. I just got my heart smashed and I don’t even care because I’m too busy being a nurse. I had a night off and fell apart, but every night that I’m at work, I don’t even remember that I’m sad. I’m too busy making sure every person I take care of is as comfortable and healing as can be. There’s a whole lot of actionable steps I can take towards that, and every little step makes a difference. And when I’m not busy with all the things I have to do, I’m too busy yapping with my coworkers and they’re so funny. So yeah, I’m gonna pick up another shift 🤷🏻♀️ submitted by /u/ladytenacity [link] [comments]
Let me just preface this post and say, I have absolute respect for every single nursing students and I admire those who truly is in it because for passion and see themselves getting in the industry to find a fulfilling life career. This past week, I had a chance to partake in an an event that lets current team members meet and greet all the students that had their clinical in our facility who are interested in applying or have applied to our new grad program. Our facility decided to do it with the intent to truly get to know candidates, get feedback on what they think would be supportive during their transition from being a student to licensed nurses, as we have seen an influx of new grads burnout within the first year. We pride ourselves on being supportive to the new generation and we don’t condone the “eat your young” attitude in our floors. BUT! Oh my lawd, I was appalled by how majority of these participants are truly not prepared to practice bedside. They can’t answer simple ques
Hey fellow California teachers! I’m positing because I’ve been anxious and I’m wondering if anyone else feels the same way… prop 3 was brought up in our union meeting the other day and as a 2nd year probationary teacher in California, I’m not going to lie I’m really worried about what will happen if prop 3 is not passed. Is anyone else worried about this or just anxious in general about layoffs? submitted by /u/Beep_boop3000 [link] [comments]
As a new department chair, I was required to go to a district orientation to do official evaluations for teachers in my department (on a Friday afternoon, no less...but that's a rant for later). The thing is, new APs are also at this training to observe their teachers, so I'm sitting next to a new math AP from one of the more well off schools in my district. At the end of the training, she's bemoaning the fact that 2 teachers in her department will be using their PPL this school year. Both are dads (not with each other, mind you). The first one is coming up and she starts talking about how their baby is SIX MONTHS OLD and it's ridiculous that he's taking it at all instead of the baby going to daycare. The cherry on top was when she said the other dad is taking PPL in the spring but mom is a SAHM, so they're just "gonna be chilling" at home...WITH THEIR FOUR OTHER KIDS. This was literally in the same training session where they said teacher support is the #1 way to keep good people in t
I saw a post earlier about how a hospital is cutting the ICU unit differential (awful). However, I’ve never heard of a unit differential before. I work in an “everything” ICU (I’m talking CT surg, neuro, level 1 trauma, medical) and I’m curious if other ICU nurses or nurses working in specialties that require extra training get any kind of differential for doing so? submitted by /u/blobbin3 [link] [comments]
What tips do you have that increase your quality of life in the classroom? Here's mine as I go into my 5th year. Scooter wheels on your desk chair feels as nice as a new pair of shoes. Premium pens. I use the OHTO GS02. I have many of them each with their own color refills. A premium writing experience is also similar to the feeling of new shoes. 2b. A proper writing pad to pair with your premium pens. A standing desk with a barstool desk chair (with the scooter wheels obviously). Lord over the children. If we are at eye level things get too comfortable. You need to appear big and maintain high ground to keep them in check. Plants. We are humans on earth. Put life in your room. Refillable white board markers. A kid recently broke open an expo and showed me what was inside. Basically nothing. White board markers are a scam. Get the ones you can refill and fight big marker. They also don't start drying out instantly. You get the juicer ink every time you uncap all the way till she's cook
How do you feel about instructional coaches? Gotta be the most condescending position ever. I find them useless. It wouldn't be a problem if they gave the job to much older seasoned teachers but the admin ass kissers who flee the classroom seem to get these positions. I literally dread meeting with them and they seem to be used by schools to micromanage and annoy teachers. Use the money and put them back in the classrooms or as interventionists. Oops many of them couldn't cut it in the classroom. submitted by /u/CartoonistCrafty950 [link] [comments]
Click-bait-y title, but a genuine question lol. This sub tends to include a lot of more experienced teachers who are past the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed stage, so I’m interested to see if anyone can enlighten me—why do so many teachers seems to hate collaborating with others? They don’t want to plan together. They avoid sharing data with others unless forced. No talk of professional development (the good kind, not the grin-and-hear-it kind). Why? submitted by /u/RaspberryHats21 [link] [comments]
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I don’t know who needs a feel-good story, but here goes: I‘m a new nurse, not new to healthcare, in a critical care unit with a few other new grad RNs on orientation. Last week, a resident came through and asked one of the new nurses what her patient’s urine output had been that day. She gave a perfectly acceptable response, “Let me look that up for you.” Y’all, this guy started lecturing her HARD. Him: You want to be a nurse, right? Her: I am a nurse. Him: Oh, OK, sorry, you are a nurse. If you’re going to be a nurse, you need to…blah, blah, blah. (as if he went to nursing school, not medical school, and is going to teach her how to do her job. Preceptor: EXCUSE me, don’t talk to my orientee like that. Resident starts listing all the reasons he needs to. Preceptor: No, if you have a problem, talk to me. Resident gives a little more lip and then leaves. 30 minutes later…unit manager comes to the unit. Preceptor tells her what went down. Manager: He did WHAT?!? Oh, no. He better not be
Hey guys (idk if this is even the right place to post this), I am a new grad RN who just got a position in the OR. I've been in this position for about 2 months, and I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get more acclimated to an environment like this because I honestly feel pretty lost. I've been talking to my preceptors and know that "things will just come with time" and "that because I'm so new it's ok to make mistakes and not know everything" and "not to be too hard on yourself", but I just feel lost and a beat behind everyone. I enjoy where I am and what I'm doing and know that progress isn't linear, but I feel like I'm just making too many easy mistakes and nothing feels like it's sticking even though I'm trying my hardest. Idk I'm sorry if this just has some cliché answer but I just feel super lost and unsure about everything I'm doing to the point where I'm just anxious about going to work every day. Thank you in advance for any help! submitted by /u/lol_44_ [
This is my first year teaching kindergarten, and today I got thrown up on, and, well, I would consider this a rite of passage lmao. I wasn't even angry; the only emotion was just shock and then laughter. I just found it funny for no reason haha. I certainly now have a story to tell from the first days of my first year lmao submitted by /u/merelywaves [link] [comments]
I think the universe is trying to tell us we shouldn’t have started school this week. Normally we start 2.5 weeks before Labor Day. Not a full month. This week we had to shelter for a tornado on the first day. Deal with storms and damaging winds with power flickers on the second and third day. Followed by full power failure and more storms on day four. It’s been a year so far and we’re just 4 days in. I don’t know how much more we can take already with all the daily audibles on what’s happening. Just praying this isn’t the universe’s way of telling us what the year will be like. Time to crash and decide if I can return for day 5. submitted by /u/zebramath [link] [comments]
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New RN — is this normal urgent care chaos? I’m a new RN working in urgent care in Maine. I actually like it for the most part, but I’m trying to figure out what’s normal vs. what might be a problem with the practice. We see a surprising amount of high-acuity patients because the closest ED is 20 miles away, but our resources are limited. For example; The other day we had a patient actively seizing and didn’t have lorazepam available. I’m also one of the only RNs, so there’s very little I can delegate because there’s no support staff and often all other nurses are tied up. I end up doing labs, autoclaving, IVs, meds, procedures, etc., while also managing my own patients. There’s also a general lack of urgency, things get done, but I often feel like I’m the only one thinking about what needs to happen next and seeing patients based upon acuity, and I cannot delegate because I’m new and no one takes me seriously (rightfully so….) but I’m the only RN and it is my responsibility to make sur
I was in a PD this week and the presenter started out with, "Don't worry! I know you're sitting here looking at me wondering if I have teaching experience. I can assure you that I do. I have been in the trenches with you. I spent one year teaching." He was talking to a group of veteran teachers. Oh. One year, huh? You pro. submitted by /u/AdventurousShock7995 [link] [comments]
I’m so tired of psychological educational theory being misrepresented by people who make more money than me, and have little literacy in the content preached and presented that I must instill in my classroom. Students do not read. They do not do homework. They do not study. Any type of high expectations that are brought into the classroom are immediately chopped down to meet students where they are. I’m not saying meeting students where they are is bad. What’s infuriating is that there is a high expectation on teachers to compensate for students who chronically do not care. We constantly are between a rock and hard place with no time provided to meet the needs of these students, and the district will come down on us. The very same district that ADVOCATED FOR THE STUDENT TO CONTINUE EVEN WHEN THEY CANNOT READ OR DO BASIC MATH. We as teachers need to stop judging each other and be THERE for each other. Recently, I’ve seen several posts on reddit where teachers are using AI to develop cou
Received an email outlawing all drink cans/ restaurant cups in meetings, hallways, and classrooms except for during our personal planning period twice a week. We also had to pay if we wanted to wear jeans on Friday this year… it’s been free for over a decade😃 Does your school have any outlandish rules? I’d love to think this is not that bad🥲 submitted by /u/Thin-Rule-9342 [link] [comments]
I'm told by my students, I'm an oldhead so this goes back to the mid 80's. I was a sophomore taking chemistry. In my English class we were reading The Odyssey and we had an assignment to create/re-enact a scene sort of diorama style. The teacher suggested using action figures for the characters, so all week, action figures - Batman, He-Man, GI Joe, etc - were making appearances in every class. One kid, in my chem class, had his Batman action figure out and he was futzing around with it. Our chem teacher was a no-nonsense sort of guy with an impressive brown walrus-like mustache. After a single request to put batman away, that wasn't acted on fast enough, he walked over, grabbed it, and threw it across the room toward the trash can. Batman almost made it, almost. He hit the brim of the metal can, and broke into 6 pieces. My dumb 15 year old self thought this was the funniest thing I'd ever seen and couldn't help but laugh. I can still hear the teacher saying this in my head, "Mr. Studen
So I have brought back my "teacher's corner" to my new office. It has a soft, plush chair for teachers to sit on. It also has a mini-fridge stocked with drinks and a basket stuffed full of treats. Finally, I also have a small television set set up in there with a Fire stick and a collection of DVDs. The idea is that if a teacher comes to me for help, advices, or just to vent, that there is a nice place for them to make them feel welcomed and comfortable. In the past, this made my office a mini-breakroom for some of the staff. I liked it. submitted by /u/Disgruntled_Veteran [link] [comments]
Some context: Had a patient with inflammation in his upper respiratory tract. We contacted the primary team and they got ahold of an ENT resident to come take a look, they said compared to their scope from the day prior, it looked stable. Fast forward it’s roughly 0430 and I’m in the patients room administering IV diphenhydramine and doing our routine blood draw. About 5 minutes later it looked like he was seizing but I realized he wasn’t breathing. Called my preceptor on the vocera and started yelling help hoping someone can hear from the hallway. Ended up calling a code blue because he no had a pulse and I started compressions. Between me and my preceptor we did 4 rounds of CPR and were able to get a pulse back. For the rest of the shift it felt like it was my fault for what happened to him. I don’t know if it was the Benadryl I gave, or because I was sticking him for the blood draw, or because I wasn’t being more diligent for whatever reason. All in all, I feel like I did something
Even funnier if it’s the red one. submitted by /u/SavvyKnucklehead [link] [comments]
I’m a 3rd year teacher, and teaching has made me grow as a person. Before teaching, I hated being judged or disliked by others to the point that it would make physically sick, I was a huge people pleaser, and I was easily angered or frustrated by minor inconveniences. I also had terrible time management and would show up late to everything. During my first year teaching, I would wake up and have anxiety attacks bc I was so nervous to teach. I started going to therapy regularly after that. Going to therapy and sticking to teaching has helped me expose myself to uncertainty and stress and I’ve gradually gotten so much better at handling it in my personal life, not just my work life. And my time management has gotten better too! I’m actually showing up early to places now! It was so rough at the beginning, but I’m glad that I’ve stayed because I don’t know if I would have grown as quickly as I have. I know teaching isn’t always sunshine and rainbows and there are some serious cons to this
TLDR below. I've been a med/surg RN for almost 5 years now working on the same unit since a new grad, but I've hated it since day 1 and I have been beyond burnt out. I work nightshift weekends only, and because I signed up for the weekend contract the pay is excellent ($39/hr base + $7/hr night weekend shift diff + $10/hr weekend contract). I am single, live alone, and support myself... so this money has really helped me thrive by not having to worry about $/bills because all of it gets paid with tons left over every month. But man has this job sucked the absolute soul out of me. My anxiety seems to have gotten worse year over year, I dread going into work to the point of tears, I am a zombie on my days off despite having a consistent schedule (3 on 4 off), and I just HATE direct patient care now. We also float so much and I'm so sick of going to other units without proper training and getting shit assignments, and it doesn't help our hospital took away our float pay a few months ago.
Wife is a pre-k teacher entering year 32. She has not enjoyed the job in some time but financially it made sense to keep working. She told me this week she just can’t do it. Her new class has 2 4 year olds that are not potty trained and she was told last year it was her job to clean them up. (This is a non ESE classroom) On top of that she has a nightmare child who will need a lot of work to settle down. This precious angel has already, in 3 days, slapped my wife twice and kicked her. Instead of getting support from home they had just enough education to send in a AI generated behavior plan they insist be implemented to help the child “transition” to the classroom. This was the last straw. She meets with the retirement office Monday and plans to be gone by Labor Day. While things will be tight, her happiness and mental health is more important than suffering through another year. submitted by /u/Confident-Pen4934 [link] [comments]
I flaired this as humor, but it actually happened during my second period this morning. MS Chemistry / Physical Science teacher, for what it's worth. Today is our 8th day of class for our students. My second period is Physical Science and is comprised primarily of Sophomores, but I have a couple of Juniors and Seniors. After a week of mostly basic intro/review work I sprung a pop quiz on all of my classes. Short and sweet. 10 questions. The first 7 questions were multiple choice, followed by 2 short answer questions, 1 discussion question (basically asking their opinion on something - guaranteed correct as long as it was answered). At the end of the quiz I gave them some room for questions, comments or suggestions. Nobody offered any. I expect to have some of each Monday at inopportune times. Jump to question number 9 caused a girl to admit she was cheating. (I'm not posting this for debate over the new law. It's a matter of great controversy on most social media sites, mainly by paren
This year I’m moving into a new classroom teaching first grade. There is a restroom attached to the classroom that connects to another classroom on the other side. Last year, the classrooms were kindergarten in my room and behavioral special needs jn the other room. Anyway, children haven’t even been in the building all summer. The restroom REEKS of urine. The custodian says he tried everything to get the smell out but he thinks urine has seeped into the grout of the tile. Any advice on what to do about the smell? I thought about taking in shaving cream and doing that trick. Is that actually effective or just one of those housekeeping hack myths? submitted by /u/Mowmowbecca [link] [comments]
Hey folks, I know the question gets asked on here from time to time, but it is one of my interests in any career field. My first career was as an Army mechanic, and I spent most of the first half of my adult life in oily ACU’s. One of the reasons I am glad to be a teacher now is that I get to dress up a little bit for work. Something like this or this is how I’m typically dressed in the classroom. Coworkers have occasionally told me I’m overdoing it a little, but I’ve found high schoolers respond pretty well to it, and I spend all day trying to convince teenagers that school is important, so I think there is something to be said for dressing like I’m doing something important. That said, most people are pretty surprised when I tell them I am ideologically opposed to most dress codes. Obviously there is a lot of variance for what is practical for teachers of different grade levels or content area. I’m just curious how you guys like to dress for work. submitted by /u/Magicmechanic103 [li
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It was the 3rd day of school. I physically could not make it in this morning due to a severe panic attack. This position was nothing like I expected it to be. I sent in my resignation before students arrived. I feel horrible, but I could not do it. I have lost weight, sleep and my anxiety medication is not helping. Feeling like a failure. Edit: I am genuinely crying my eyes out reading these comments. I haven’t been able to control my breathing since this morning. I just took more anxiety medicine. I see my therapist tomorrow. Your comments are making me realize I should take care of myself. There’s just so much guilt that comes with it. I can’t help but feel the guilt. Edit: Clarification…It’s not my 3rd day as a teacher or in this position. It’s my third week at a new district. 3rd day with students back on campus. submitted by /u/enlatierrra [link] [comments]
It seems painfully obvious to me that education has been shifted toward maintaining false and graduation rates and giving parents what they want. There a few ways how administration and state governments have done this. The first are credit recovery courses. These 'classes' are literally scams. They are online modules created to shove student through high school who clearly can't make it. I've seen how they work and done one myself. The entire premise is to pass the student. Some are just clicking buttons as fast as you can and really nothing else. The second are pressuring teachers to change grades. While this one is technically against the rules, my suspicion is that it is rampant, at least in some schools. It's hard to prove and difficult to stamp out. The third is related to the second. Teachers subtly lowering their standards to fit the new expectations and not even knowing how low the expectations are. A lot of teachers I see don't even understand how low the expectations are. Th
Even if what you are saying is true, you shouldn’t give students any type of reason to respect a teacher less. I had to pull a young teacher aside after I heard him telling students that their teacher from last year was a horrible teacher and not worthy to educate kids. Is the teacher he was talking about a good educator? Ehh… But still, not cool and incredibly unprofessional. And I truly don’t get your motivation. Is it to impress high schoolers? Clown behavior. submitted by /u/CrawlerCoolie [link] [comments]
My director is mad because I wrote a Nurse's Note. I work in a nursing home. During my overnight shift one resident assaulted another resident resulting in the victim having a (minor) injury. Both parties have dementia. I went through all the proper procedures. Alerted the PD and EMS and ended up getting the aggressive resident sectioned and taken to the hospital. I alerted residents' families, called the DON and the NP on call for orders, filled out the paperwork and got everything squared away. The DON told me not to write a Nurse's Note for either resident on the incident which seemed odd. If there is any incident at our facility involving resident injury or change in condition we have to write a Nurse's Note. I was scared about not writing a Nurse's Note and documenting the assault. I thought it might reflect badly on my license. So I wrote the Nurses' Notes anyway. Now my DON is furious, saying because of my Nurse's Notes she has to report the incident to DPH and get the state ale
I recently accepted my first full time RN job as a new grad, and I’ll get paid $55/hr. My goal right now is to save as much money as possible, so I’ve been hearing about nurses working per diem or picking up side gigs in addition to their full-time job. Would you recommend a new grad start working per diem as an RN right away? Are there other side gigs that you’d recommend for a new grad who wants to earn extra income? I’m willing to work a lot but I also don’t want burn myself out. submitted by /u/No_Bus5203 [link] [comments]
Last night around 22:30, I was starting an IV. I work medsurg and this was a good shift for me. I had passed all of my evening meds. I had then requested all of the additional medications that my various patients had insisted they needed, obtained orders from our very patient night hospitalist, and circled back to pass this bonus round of meds. All of this by 22:30. So many little side quests I won't bore you with, completed at this very reasonable hour. And then I got the IV on my first try. A really promising start to my third night of three. I look up and see on the wall a suction canister with about 400 mls of brown liquid. This patient came to the hospital with a SBO. They do not have an NGT currently, but I know from report that they did have one recently. So, not entirely bizarre to see a container partly full of stomach acid on the wall. I retrieve the container and, naively, mind already racing ahead to the next few things I have to do, dump the liquid in the toilet. By the ti
Just found out I’m getting paid $1.50 more than new grads as an RN with 4 years of experience. I’ve been here for 1.5 years, I already had 2.5 years of experience when I started this job. Is that typical in nursing? We usually get a pay bump around Nov, so I’m waiting to see what it’ll be. Although I’m not expecting anything more than $2/hr. submitted by /u/Reasonable_Row1681 [link] [comments]
Our unit director came during morning huddle the other day, and told us that our unit diff is being cut completely starting in 2027, hospital wide. For us in ICU, that’s going to result in a 22k annual decrease. Budget cuts will budget cut, but a 20% pay cut is a tough pill to swallow, especially in a level 1 icu. submitted by /u/_Valhalla___ [link] [comments]
Been a nurse for two years but recently transferred to a PCU and I’m just shocked at how little it seems the providers on this unit care about people who are withdrawing Had a patient last week on second day of withdrawal. CIWA was 24 and 2mg of Ativan IV every hour (max in our CIWA protocol) was not touching them. Paged provider to state my concerns and recommend moving to higher level of care and they said as long as the Ativan lowers her CIWA score when reassessing half an hour later the ICU won’t take them?? Then recommended I hold Ativan all together until patient was agitated enough/high enough BP for the icu to take them?? Meanwhile they are in locked restraints after ripping through their vest and getting aggressive toward staff, hallucinating and disoriented, etc. Are we just waiting for patients to have a seizure at this point before transferring to icu? Also should mention this whole time I had five patients and I literally told my charge and the provider even if I’m able to
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I’m a student teacher and have had nooo slip ups with my mouth yet (knock on wood) but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite public-school-friendly words to use instead of accidentally swearing :) submitted by /u/NailKey6116 [link] [comments]
Hello everyone. I have accepted a 10 week contract with Walgreens as an RN immunizer. Starts 9/8 and goes until 11/13. Pay is $53/hr and the job description states I will only be doing vaccines. Has anyone ever worked with Walgreens as an immunizer during the flu season? Any insight would be helpful. Also the store I will be working at is a tier 3/4. Thank you!! submitted by /u/Prestigious_Visit395 [link] [comments]
i’m in southern california and my hospital has had 3 rounds of layoffs since last june. even bedside staff members have been laid off. i feel like management is insinuating that we should just be grateful to even have a job so we need to deal with the lack of resources & short staffing now but keep patient satisfaction scores up ! submitted by /u/nosleepnatalie [link] [comments]
I was finally able to land a full time middle school ELA position at a great school, with dream-level supportive admin/coworkers. We are a couple days into the new school year and I am coming into a lot of friction with student behavior. Nothing as bad previous sites and districts that I’ve worked at thankfully…but I’ve noticed that students just straight up don‘t take me seriously. As if I was wall decoration. When I lay out or rehearse expectations, give instruction, calls to attention, students will look at me and then just continue as they have been. Bringing this up to a veteran teacher in my building, he sounded surprised because the kids are near adult-like in his and other classes. They are great kids! I can see their potential, every teacher talks highly of every student…just not in my class it seems. As I was reflecting on this and thinking about an off-handed comment from admin. I realized the problem is entirely how I have presented myself!! I thought before I was having di
I was a School Resource Officer (SRO) at a large high school for about 2 years starting in 2000. During my time there, I saw firsthand how forcing older teenagers to be in school when they absolutely did not want to be was incredibly disruptive. It felt like a lot of time and energy was spent forcing kids into a building who then spent the whole day disrupting teachers, ruining the environment for other students who wanted to learn, and even committing crimes. From my law enforcement perspective, it often felt counterproductive. But I want to hear from teachers. My time in the school system gave me a unique perspective of what goes on in a big high school with about 2300 students, what teachers deal with regarding disruptive students and needless to say it was a very eye opening experience. How do mandatory attendance laws affect your daily teaching and classroom management now some 20+ years later? Has anything changed? Do you feel they actually help turn struggling students around, o
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I'm in my 8th year of teaching, 10th year in education, and today is the first time I got the news that a student I actually knew well has died. It was the first day of classes. Everything else went well, but I feel so down. There have been student deaths at our school before, but none that hit close to home for me. I taught him in an English learner support block, three times a week, and got to know him and his friend group well. They ended up eating lunch in my room a lot. In the last weeks of school they brought an Xbox (or something like that) and I let them hook it up to my projector at lunch to play Super Smash Bros, and I remember him insisting I should join for a round at some point. When I said I had no idea how to play, he was like, "We have Mario Kart too!" 😭 He was such a kind, friendly kid. He has a younger brother at this school who's rough around the edges with a lot of behavioral issues, and he was a real support for him. A lot of his friends were like that too, and the
I have a coworker who I absolutely hate getting report from or giving report to because he absolutely nitpicks the fuck out of EVERYTHING, talks in a high pitched anime voice like it’s supposed to be cute, and is passive aggressive. He also talks to me like I’m an idiot and goes through my charting trying to find things to criticize. Who even has time for that? He has been a nurse for a little over a year and I’ve been one since 2018. Not saying I’m better than him because I have more experience, but I am saying that I am competent enough to do my job without someone micromanaging me. We have these note cards that night shift (his shift) fills out with patient updates for rounding that are supposed to be discarded after each shift. I did so and said nurse got upset with me for doing what I’m supposed to do and that NO OTHER NURSE ever complains about, all because he would have to fill out a new one. I’m sorry you have to fill out a new note card dude. He went through my charting and sa
i’m sorry i’m trying to move on but i’m so over it. It’s my day 3/4, 1700, I work on inpatient onc unit. Family member walks by the nurses station but I didn’t really notice her (Not my patient btw) she goes “HI” aggressively…. i’m like “oh hi” I go to pull my pre-meds for vidaza. (Short half-life chemo, have to give as soon as it comes to the floor.) Another family member steps out of a room patients room. The first family member starts talking to her and is like “I’m just really not impressed by the care here! The nurses staff are so LAZY and they don’t even say hi when you walk by the nurses station” and just goes on and on about how much we suck- knowing full well I can hear her and know she’s talking about me. At some point i’m just like “Have you ever considered we’re taking care of patients” She goes “I’m not talking to you” I say “You’re talking ABOUT me and i’m standing right here 😃” She says some dumb shit and I said (heat of the moment) “No you’re talking shit about me and i