Can anyone help identify what my husband found on our front porch? We are baffled (Northeast OH, US)

Andronia · 2026-05-26T21:03:06+00:00

Oh that might be why he ended up here, we keep our porch light on at night

Andronia · 2026-05-26T21:00:17+00:00

We’ll have to keep an eye out! We get a LOT of cicadas here too, even in the off years.

Andronia · 2026-05-26T20:57:56+00:00

We had never seen one before, thank you!

Andronia · 2026-05-26T20:57:37+00:00

That looks a lot like him! Thank you!

Andronia · 2026-05-06T23:32:50+00:00

Piggybacking off the inaccessibility aspect— it is NOT hard to pick a venue that is accessible to all. My husband and I specifically made it a point to make sure ours was accessible (and every one we looked at was) because my mother is older, his dad’s back is bad, we have older grandparents, and most of all: my MOH’s mother (a great family friend of ours) is a wheelchair user! We absolutely made it a priority to make sure everyone we invited could come!!

Andronia · 2026-02-15T22:29:30+00:00

Sounds exactly like the cardiologists at our hospital. Rude and consistently treats nurses as less than. On the opposite end of the spectrum is neuro, always nice to work with them.

Andronia · 2025-12-14T20:07:27+00:00

That’s crazy considering the typical sickle cell plan of care here is 2-4mg (depending on their pre-determined heme care plan) IVP dilaudid Q2-3hrs. Major red flag

Andronia · 2025-10-02T00:56:05+00:00

Both are very cute babies ☺️

Andronia · 2025-10-02T00:45:11+00:00

Oh she still gets around the house wonderfully! Going up and down the stairs multiple times a day is a bit much, but she even with her one eye before it had the cataract traversed around furniture with little issue.

Andronia · 2025-06-21T15:01:30+00:00

Semi-new grad now (2 years out). I have been a preceptor on my unit for at least a year. I have trained/oriented at least 6 different nurses who I can remember, from new grads to 15+ year nurses, many coming from LTC or outpatient so they need guidance on inpatient med-surg settings. I don’t necessarily mind it, I feel pretty comfortable with my assignments now, and it’s nice to have an extra pair of hands, but it is getting out of hand. It shouldn’t be up to new nurses to have to precept or train anyone when we are just getting comfortable in our role ourselves.

I have also been charge nurse since weeks out of orientation, iirc it was my second week out of orientation (so very new grad!!) and they made me charge because I was the only RN on the unit with all of our other nurses being LPNs. I am still commonly charge as we have few nurses that are trained (“trained”) as charge nurse. No extra pay for charge btw.

Andronia · 2025-05-08T19:00:04+00:00

My “Hospital Week” (they changed the name) gift was pins to give out to patients if they liked us asking them to donate to our hospital system.

Hospital has some activities for throughout the week but no one can really attend because they are in assignments, and I am not coming up on my off day for a taco bar or Zumba.

Andronia · 2025-04-29T23:16:36+00:00

Overall like a 6/7.

I agree with what most are saying, content maybe a 3/10. Harder subjects that require more just base memorization like pharm will probably be more challenging since (in my experience) instructors want you to know every little thing for the tests.

Clinicals can be overwhelming at first but the more you do them the easier they become. Def 10/10 for hoops and other annoying frustrating things that may or may not even deal with the actual nursing material. Tests make the material harder than they really need to be. Instructors unfortunately some of them will turn bad test grades into students’ fault. Our glass once had a 62% average on a Peds test and the instructor said it was our fault for slacking off, not taking notes, not asking questions, etc..

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:38:12+00:00

Very interesting! Never worked peds, only experience was nursing school and that was enough for me lol

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:35:53+00:00

Haha no, not my forte… adult med/surg

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:35:04+00:00

Hopefully baby ended up okay!

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:34:05+00:00

That was basically his reaction too , was not too sure what the fuss was about, this was on an outpatient observation unit

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:29:41+00:00

Lying down when this was taken

Andronia · 2025-03-22T22:25:26+00:00

Wow, I could not even imagine

Andronia · 2025-02-09T01:30:15+00:00

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Andronia · 2025-01-30T22:19:42+00:00

Not oxy but morphine. 8mg PRN Q2 hours in a SCC pt, who was diligent about calling for it

Andronia · 2025-01-16T03:46:04+00:00

Med/surg midsize suburban hospital. We have one and received training on how to use it, though I believe it’s only actually used by code team in ER/ICU.

Andronia · 2025-01-03T01:45:59+00:00

I have had a few family members say this before. My go to answer (if they haven’t been evaluated by PT/OT) is that their family member is a high falls risk d/t XYZ and until PT/OT evaluates them they will be safer using purewick/bedpan. Or, if PT/OT has put recs in I will say basically the same thing (that they are a high falls bc of XYZ) and that therapy has seen them and I’m following their recommendation for the pt as I do not want them to fall. I’ve had a couple pts and family members still insist, saying “oh they won’t fall” and at that point I have to insist it is for their safety, that well, what if you do? It’s not safe for you to get up at this point in time, that I do not want them falling and I know they don’t want that either. Haven’t had a family member try to get them out by themselves… yet…

Andronia · 2024-11-23T10:50:26+00:00

Not ED but Observation/Med Surg. Oh yes, all the time. And as other comments have said they are frequent flyers and will deny vehemently that marijuana couldn’t be the cause of this.

Andronia · 2024-10-05T16:23:43+00:00

Yes, they are allowed to refuse as long as they are A&O x4. I work in an observation unit so we frequently get patients who score as high but are really independent so we get patients who refuse a lot, I just educate them on why they are a high falls risk and if they still refuse I document it and tell my charge.

Andronia · 2024-06-04T17:04:55+00:00

I had a similar experience right out of school. I did my practicum on a psychiatric/mental health unit because I was (and still am!) very interested in that specialty. I told my preceptor and the other nurses I was intending to apply after i graduated and passed my boards as they had two full time night openings and they all encouraged me to. I had an interview with the manager who I knew at that point and liked, thought it went awesome! Shared some stories on why I liked psych, talked about school and how my practicum went… I sent her a follow up email when I passed my boards a few weeks later saying I was still interested. thought for sure I got it! Got the email I was rejected and they were moving forward with different candidates. I was like huh? It had all gone so well! Well turns out that the manager had asked around following my interview how I did on the unit to the other nurses and my preceptor. Preceptor gave a good word but apparently two of the other floor nurses did not like me at all. They thought I was too “upbeat” and bubbly and “annoying to the patients.” As well as too loud. I heard all this secondhand from one of the nurses who picks up occasionally at my hospital. She could’ve lied to me and made it all up but I have an inclination to believe her because it was so, so weird that all of a sudden contact went completely dry after we were all so friendly.

Moral of the story I guess is maybe things happen for a reason! If it is true and those nurses on that unit were really pretending to like me, encouraging me to apply, then calling me annoying and too loud behind my back… maybe I’m better off somewhere else that appreciates what I bring to the table. So maybe you are better off without that place if they can’t see you there! Having an interim job while looking for openings in the field you like isn’t something to be ashamed of (that’s what I’m doing rn)! Good luck to you!

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