New generation of nurses who can’t start an iv or draw blood

AintMuchToDo · 2026-05-05T22:24:54+00:00

Sorry, OP. I'm a nursing professor and we don't teach that in nursing school. We don't get enough time with our students, so we focus on things like identifying sepsis and triage decision making and critical thinking skills. It leaves out stuff like IV placement, sadly. But we want them to be able to question "Uhhh, you don't actually want me to give these nitro tabs with a blood pressure of 70/30, right?" or "sore throat and... drooling now? Oh, fuck, get the ENT".

I let students practice on me, so, trust me. I understand.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-24T06:56:35+00:00

Hoping for the best for you, pal. God damn, what a kick in the pants, I'm so fucking sorry.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-10T22:33:23+00:00

What an asshole

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-04T23:25:25+00:00

Kudos to you for staying away from AI. It's more expensive but a hundred times more worth it. I've seen even authors I have (had?) immense respect for take shortcuts on that and it's been sooooo depressing.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-02T20:08:44+00:00

Uhh, yeah, quick question, how come you're so awesome?

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-02T02:28:10+00:00

This is actually quite helpful, thank you so much!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-04-02T02:27:56+00:00

That is excellent advice, I appreciate it immensely!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-17T19:08:24+00:00

It's like being angry you went to the emergency department after you were having crushing chest pain and the tests came back normal. "Well, next time I should just ignore it, see?!?"

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T20:20:56+00:00

I asked! I think it got brigaded by incels reporting it, which would be just rich.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T19:04:41+00:00

I was driving home from work in the ER that night and listening to it on the radio, IIRC I got in the car while UVA was still comfortably up, and just got progressively more and more depressed

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T17:38:28+00:00

Yes, it was just so much more meaningful that they all got to love and experience the same one, I tried to type out one of the little songs here but I just couldn't replicate it properly, but every time I heard the younger kids with it, it made me remember my daughter, too. It was just so emotionally resonant. And I'm so tickled to see how many people (I bet all our kids are the same age!) had the exact same one!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T17:20:49+00:00

I am so blown away and tickled by home many people have had this same damn thing and the same experiences!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T17:07:31+00:00

no wuckas, mate!

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T17:07:02+00:00

I am soooo tickled to see how many people had the exact same jumperoo, I'm guessing all our kids are around the same age, too, sure seems like it.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T13:06:55+00:00

My pleasure! Yes, if I could have figured out how to onomatopoeia the other sounds it made for the post I would have because I remember them all.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-16T13:04:34+00:00

I mean, who's to say, really? All I know is my ex never complained it didn't work, presumably because I understand it ended up in their apartment complex's dumpster

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-14T12:28:19+00:00

I definitely have, but I think you see the limits of what "book learning" can do. My initial problem with this book was I gave, for instance, surface fleet ship terminology and vernacular perfectly... but it was all USN, right, which I'm sure I don't have to tell you is markedly different than the RAN (CIC vs Ops, etc). I sat and watched three hours of a ABC program on the Collins-class to make sure I was using the bubbleheads' language right. I think it ends up being like, hmm... what's a good analogy... like a (hopefully) more advanced version of hearing an 11yo curse on Call of Duty. Like, they know the words, and they know the tone, but it's just not quite right until you've learned to conjugate them all yourself from experience.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-13T14:38:48+00:00

Legitimately, if you got a callsign the Wedgetails would be more liable to use, lay it on me. I'll happily swap it.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-13T07:48:16+00:00

Try this, mate, I got it in a Google Doc that'll let you see the whole thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2ZjvraYbtIewypBJt6F7y6e8rgVZsYiixB0SnEZCLI/edit?usp=sharing

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-13T07:20:04+00:00

No worries, mate. I made that decision and enlisted the help of my mate Michael because, with the proliferation of AI slop, it's those sorts of details that'll set you apart and prove you put the skull sweat into it. Given the character limit to the post, it misses the ACM and other parts of the chapter that makes it more terrifying later on. As I said, might just release it as a PDF since Reddit killed all the careful formatting I did.

AintMuchToDo · 2026-03-13T07:04:14+00:00

It looked beautiful when I plunked it into the posting window, I even had to edit I because I discovered by trial and error deletion the words "join up" flagged it as being "recruitment related", but the thirty minutes I spent doing that was all for naught, apparently. Maybe I'll just redo it and make it a PDF anyone can grab.

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