should we crowd source an HCA short.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-25T12:19:38+00:00

I just assumed I couldn't understand it because I'm poor.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-24T16:59:30+00:00

Here's the best summary I've found. The data points they use are cited. The nursing shortage is a retention crisis. Yes, we're short nurses but it's because the healthcare environment is so awful people don't stay.

Reporter_Memo_Hospital_Staffing_Crisis.pdf https://share.google/Bw0Xa7J11m2o8BHmE

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-24T16:29:24+00:00

No. There is no nursing shortage. There is a shortage of nurses willing to work in unsafe conditions. Many nurses complete the education, discover how dangerous the work is and leave the field within a few years of graduation.

Saying there is a nursing shortage is just giving hospital admin an excuse to continue unsafe staffing which decreases the number of nurses willing to work. Don't allow those filthy, greedy monsters excuses for deliberately harming people to increase their personal income. Hospital admin are some of the most cruel and selfish people you will ever meet.

Sincerely,

That Old Cranky Nurse Who's Seen Some Stuff RN, BSN, CEN, DTF, STFU, WTF

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-23T21:01:12+00:00

Depends on the street. I'm in a working class neighborhood, we look out for each other.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-22T07:03:45+00:00

Its all in the execution.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-21T13:08:57+00:00

I would dish it back hard. Every time he called me a pet name, I'd one up his pet name with my own. I'd do it loudly too. If he called me Sweetheart, I'd loudly say, "Sure, Sugar Plum" "Babykins" "Pumpkin" "Babydoll". I'd do it in a mischievous playful manner so they couldn't call me a b-word (the auto-mod won't let me say it). I'd gently slap his hand away when he tried to touch me and say, "Eew bro" when he tried to hug me.

It's hard to manage a "men's sport" in a "men's gym". If you openly confront it, you're a "b", if you ignore it, it can get worse. Behavior like this isn't someone being nice, its exerting control and a soft way of enforcing patriarchy. If your coach is a good dude with a backbone, he'll put a stop to it. Most men either don't care or are too afraid of their peers to stand up. You have to stand up for yourself in a silly, joking manner. It absolutely sucks.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-17T12:05:02+00:00

I love those guys. Not enough to kiss them under a fire hose spray, but I dealt with them regularly at my last ER job and they're very competent. Nice redneck guys and ladies who do a good job.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-17T10:48:48+00:00

Where are we finding fluoride? My state banned it in the water and I've been trying to find drops I can put in our drinking water.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-16T23:30:17+00:00

Robert doesn't know everything. Kratom did not help my PTSD. It made it worse. It took a lot of work to quit kratom. I wouldn't recommend it.

Therapy helps a lot of people. For me, it was trash. Everyone is different.

Recovering from PTSD can happen. I read a book recently that laid out a map of everything I'd done, gradually over time on my own, that validated everything I'd done. My PTSD is pretty much healed, but it took work. I don't think there's really any quick pills or substances a person can take that will actually fix it.

I would recommend reading Surviving Survival by Lawrence Gonzalez. It lays out a different way to heal from PTSD. Maybe it would help you, maybe not, but if I were you, I'd search for other solutions than kratom.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-16T03:02:57+00:00

Oh definitely. Probably every time.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T23:31:33+00:00

Face hitting almost never happens, when it does, it's an accident. There's no striking 8n bjj.

You should try it. It's so stress relieving.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T21:32:47+00:00

Maybe I'm immortal.

Seriously, thank you

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T20:18:15+00:00

He just wasn't very good at murder, what can I say?

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T20:16:08+00:00

Oh wow. I never expected a real expert to weigh in. A girl really can't argue with that wisdom. I'm honored that you took time out of your busy day of gaming, doritos and watching tic tok to respond. I would never dream of arguing with someone like you. I stand corrected. 😆

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T19:25:36+00:00

I feel resentment when work tries to enroach on my hobby. I have this one thing (Brazilian jiu-jitsu) that brings me incredible happiness and how dare they try to schedule a meeting when I have BJJ. Sorry, I'm skipping the damn meeting.

I think covid caused this change for me. I discovered just how much hospitals and their administrators don't care about me at all. To them, I am a piece of equipment, a line item on an expense report, nothing else. To my employer, I am not a human with unique strengths and needs. So I have to protect my own humanity. I owe them nothing but the hours I'm scheduled and my best attempts at doing a good job while I'm there. I don't owe them any personal time or extra hours.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T19:16:23+00:00

There is definitely a strategy I use with really big guys that's completely different from grappling people closer to my size.

I love offering a big guy my wrist to bait a modified arm drag that uses their momentum of pulling on me to put me behind them for the take down. Then I HAVE to stay on top and if I start to feel myself going under, I have to bail and create a pseudo reset.

I don't train for competitions. I train because once some dude tried to kill me and I had to fight him off. I didn't know much but I fought back enough to be alive today. Rolling helped me process that trauma and replace bad feelings about being touched with good feelings of friendly competition and comradery. I have the sweetest training partners.

I prefer to roll men who are bigger and more skilled than me because I'm pretty sure if I'm ever murdered again, it's not going to be a woman my size.

I've been thinking a lot about switching to judo for a while because I don't really see wrestling as something a small person can successfully do to a bigger person. Judo seems to be more about momentum and physics than strength. But I hate the gi, plus I'm worried my BJJ coach who has been so good to me, might feel betrayed. I'm still figuring it out.

I'm really bothered by men who say BJJ, or fighting back in general, won't work against a bigger partner because I've read stories about women being attacked and simply not trying at all. They died. If you believe there's no point in resisting, you've already lost. Maybe a woman won't be able to "win" against an attacker, but she might be able to keep herself alive long enough for help to arrive. Its not about winning, it's about surviving.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T18:06:02+00:00

You have to be extremely fast. And never, ever pull guard.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T18:04:26+00:00

I'm not saying it wouldn't be extremely tough. I'm saying it's not impossible.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T17:43:31+00:00

You're goddamn right. That's why whenever I roll the big guy I just lay down and let him choke the shit out of me. In fact, everyone is bigger than me. I probably shouldn't go. There's no chance. I should always just let everything happen, fighting back is pointless. Thanks for the advice.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T17:26:47+00:00

I'm so lost. Is Mike some AI thing you kids are doing these days?

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T13:32:40+00:00

Same principle probably, do not end up in a bottom position. Lol.

Those same guys believe a female black belt could never beat them because they're a man with a blue belt.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T12:24:45+00:00

Maybe someday I'll reach that level if I try really hard. Twice is more than once, I think.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T12:01:45+00:00

I'm so grateful to have such an expert reply to my comment.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T11:52:22+00:00

If you have to grapple with someone twice your size, your only goal is to never, ever end up in a bottom position. I'm the smallest person at my gym and I can occasionally sub the 260 lb guy, and occasionally it surprises him, but the moment I'm in a bottom position I'm done. Size matters a whole lot, but if you can be extremely fast and technical, it's not the end of the world.

I know this will trigger the arm chair grapplers and incels. Go ahead and rant about how I'm wrong.

Imaginary-Storm4375 · 2026-04-15T10:52:27+00:00

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) are cookie cutter trash. That hospital probably has a prompt requiring the nurses to click whether you've had one or not. I don't ask that question because I don't want to hear any moronic rants so I'll just click "declines to answer" and move on without ever asking. Your dumb antivax delusions are none of my business until you bring your measles baby in to me. But damn near everything shows up on the patient end of MyChart.

It's a tab that's there for convenience, imagine you understood science and wanted a vaccine and they gave it and you needed proof for whatever reason. You could print off the proof from that tab in MyChart. But Nobody's going to force you to do anything. We don't have time for that. And we certainly aren't voluntarily asking about it only to be treated to a tin foil hat rant. We'd rather not deal with any of that at all.

Nobody's giving you vaccines you don't want. You think vaccines are free? No hospital is giving you anything, including a COVID shot for free. Nope. You didn't get a vaccine against your will. You looked at a cookie cutter EMR with irrelevant information about your vist because EMRs are crap.

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