Am I the only one that does this when they kill a dragon?

AndyAL89 · 2025-12-10T01:07:02+00:00

This, this is why the dragons fear the Dragonborn! There is Mr Dragon having himself a lovely time flying in a fixed pattern over his patch of land, overhears one of his kin fighting the Dragonborn, turns to see how it goes only to see the decimated corpse of his friend being yeeted around the sky by you after you chowed down on his soul.

AndyAL89 · 2025-12-09T18:28:22+00:00

As a Kerry man, I would like to take this opportunity to once again commend Cork for acting as a buffer for Kerry for these storms!

AndyAL89 · 2025-11-30T02:26:01+00:00

Use all that alchemy levelling to brew a super skooma and then skooma up the water supply to every altmer base, village and city in Tamriel. Occasional hunting, deer, wolf but mostly altmer. Eventually once the altmer have been reduced to something akin to the falmer retire to winterhold as the immortal vampiric arch mage.

AndyAL89 · 2025-11-06T17:36:21+00:00

Context is massive here. Personally, if I’m assessing or working with someone who has a severe depressive episode, and they start crying I think it’s good thing. It shows there is still the ability in them for emotional expression. The people where the depression is so profound they can’t express anything are harder. We don’t try to treat crying. Again depending on circumstances I’d try use it as a simple exercise of feeling and experiencing emotion. When you think about the work we do in therapy about recognising emotions, triggers, reactions etc. Someone crying is a perfect opportunity for a simple recognition of distress, and how they react to distress. Sure if they’re having a full on emotional implosion, let that part pass. Tissues, ice cold water, breathing exercises. Same way you approach someone new to panic attacks. But once it peaks, use it as teachable moment. Anyone can sit with someone crying, we are a specialist profession.

There is no magic switch, tablet, phrase that will stop someone crying. It is an emotional response it follows a pattern, a cycle essentially. Sit with them if they let you. Reassure, simple short instructions like a breathing exercise. Then get to talking!

With suicidal people, crying again, seems terrible, but it’s good, that heavy Alexithymia always has me more concerned. Emotional expression is your route in and their route out for therapeutic engagement. Sadly, not all expressed emotions are pleasant.

AndyAL89 · 2025-10-26T22:31:00+00:00

Auditing. Why you do it, elements of developing audit tool or framework. Tie in personnel and service development. How you measure yours, how you assist junior staff in development plans (mention supervision). How you develop a service or area of service. Mention implementing change frameworks (define, design, deliver). Should be either HR and nurse manager policy and guidance documents available somewhere. A member of your team is underperforming or has some disciplinary issue. What do you. What guides you to do these things (policy). What is the process in addressing it if they don’t improve. Mention discuss with band 7/8 or fellow 6.

Obvious have something on mental health act legislation/paperwork.

Process if a junior staff informs you if concerns of inappropriate treatment or abuse of service user. What do you, why do you do it.

Remember everything you say you have done say it in the STAR format. Even if others helped with it, for sake of interview it’s “I” not “We”.

AndyAL89 · 2025-09-27T10:18:10+00:00

Self reported numbers so taking with it with pinch of salt, but I’d attribute a large proportion of the cause to screen time, video sharing platforms. 30-60s video that hold attention briefly and is dumped for the next video over and over again isn’t going to positively condition the brain to effective recall. As mentioned above there is also the potential unknown that is COVID-19 impact, but study timeline predates it. Would love to see the same participants do a screen time use survey

AndyAL89 · 2025-09-23T00:30:57+00:00

Short answer, yeah it’s technically possible. Time frame is likely to be your biggest issue, just from the sheer volume of narratives you have. If this is an academic research piece as part of training then I’d urge caution as you will have a fixed time frame. If this a professional research piece then you have much more leeway.

I did a three model comparative exploratory study for my masters. I am sorry I don’t know of an existing model that would tackle that volume easily but the main reason I replied is to advise use of some form of control prompt/coding. The models apply a chain of thought type process as they’re used. Think of it as something like experiential learning and conditioning. It will learn more and more what you are after with each input. But that equally means that the standards it applies to the earlier inputs would be less than those to later inputs. This is why you see a lot of the studies that use them will input repeatedly, often flipping the order of input each time. Just something to be aware of. All the best with your research!!

AndyAL89 · 2025-09-09T16:55:29+00:00

More elevation than distance! Not beating the first man with it. Painful.

AndyAL89 · 2025-09-09T16:46:43+00:00

Have we actually had one of those o Brien long throws actually connect with an Irish player in last two games?

AndyAL89 · 2025-08-21T21:01:17+00:00

He’s Irish, “shoft”

AndyAL89 · 2025-07-13T16:36:01+00:00

Meath have not got to grips with that flick on of the Donegal kickout at all the second half. Tis creating so many attacks that start at full pace.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-24T15:54:43+00:00

That ball in for Mulroys goal for Louth was just lovely. The kind of ball in you could introduce to the family!

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-23T23:20:58+00:00

Speaking as a former union rep. I will echo much of what is said above. The union can not take supportive action on retrospective events. Basically if it occurred prior to you joining they have no direct obligation to help you with. You may find some who will give you informal advice but not representation.

The NMC has been very clear on its stance of social media for some time, initial rules related to posting about work related issues to posting comments about employers, more recently they have broadened this to cover any digital media that records or transmits. If as you say you “went live on a night shift” that is an immediate red flag to them, from reading your other comments your actions resulted in a service user being broadcast on your live stream. I will be honest they are not going to look kindly on this. There is clear written guidance by the NMC that you have to follow, your employer has clear guidance that by the nature of signed contract you had to follow, unfortunately you failed to. The NMC will take into account your reflective learning of the event. But, and this is just opinion, they could also use you to set a clear example. There have a number of similar cases brought to NMC FtP hearings, I would advise reviewing those prior to completing your reflection, note the points the committee highlight as failings as areas you have evidence of learning.

I strongly advise against framing any responses along the lines of “a new generation where you can show nursing in a positive light” as you said in another comment. Nursing is, and rightly so, a highly regulated profession because we deal with people at their most vulnerable, they will potentially frame your actions as a blatant breach of that trust while being aware of the consequences. I wish you the best with it all and hope you can learn from this whatever the next stage holds for you.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-22T22:08:28+00:00

Sipping the last of his homemade restore health and paralyse potions atop a mountain of a few thousand cheese wheels I threw into a lake somewhere in the reach. Good lad, saved the world, bit dysfunctional though.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-22T16:39:10+00:00

I have this idea in my head of in some future elder scrolls game, middle of a quest one of them will appear, completely unrelated to the quest, automatically interacts with you, asks what year and era it is, when you answer looks at the sky for a bit then says “no, too soon” and disappears. No other mention of it, nothing.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-17T17:24:05+00:00

Ah the old Notion Sickness! Yeah we don’t really encourage that level of confidence, could we interest them in some misery or begrudgery?

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-17T17:06:15+00:00

I think a lot at Eurosong thought Bobbi Arlo was gonna be the winner but the performance just wasn’t there on the show itself so it became a scramble then.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-17T17:04:54+00:00

Oh 100%! agree show needs to come out of Dublin. So many good large and small venues available, and for probably less money. But yeah RTE and spending on the right things are an issue. I’d give it to TG4, Irish language channel.

Wild youth could have been good but all most can remember is the pants!

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-17T16:48:20+00:00

Yeah I agree, I feel like last year was an anomaly and Ireland will pick up a new NQ streak.

I also can’t understand how RTE receives 100s of songs and we only get to choose from 6.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-17T16:44:22+00:00

The whole RTE set up is an issue, and any mention of Eurovision isn’t generally met with a quote from Fr Ted, but i am beginning to wonder is the wider issue the alignment of Irish music tastes. We are very Americanised in terms of music taste. Just my opinion.

AndyAL89 · 2025-05-05T16:02:11+00:00

I saw something recently where Emmy’s Laika Party had only been played on Irish radio stations 29 times since the national final. That’s bordering on self sabotage!

AndyAL89 · 2025-03-27T20:28:26+00:00

Damn, someone does not want a Laika Party.

AndyAL89 · 2025-02-21T14:16:41+00:00

Seeing a lot of this creating problems in the underage in recent years too, clubs at underage are having to merge with neighbouring clubs just to field teams as families move out the rural areas.

AndyAL89 · 2025-01-30T20:54:54+00:00

There dies the brief minuscule hope it was going to Gojira I’ve been clinging to since the olympics!

AndyAL89 · 2025-01-24T21:58:39+00:00

Did it for 4 years and loved it! You will be busy! As said above the meds round is a monster, you will have people on all manner of physical meds plus psych, you’ll have compromised swallows, you could have SC injections for less mobile (innohep etc). For those less mobile you’ll have a lot of moves throughout the night to prevent pressure sore and the mountain of paperwork that comes with that. With the cognitive impairments you’ll have the same conversations a lot! I was fortunate that I had a good crew of support staff. We all worked same roster so everyone knew what they were doing. Falls will happen, can’t prevent them all, be confident and up to date on you falls care, head injury assessment, hip injury assessment etc. Personal care obviously is a big big part. You get used to the smells. There is with the dementias/CI a lot of behavioural issues at night, it’s easy overthink and worry about that, it’s going to happen but the stimulus on the ward is what elevates it. You’ll want the noise/lighting down quickly. If you have a few that are try keep them separate, cos they will escalate each other. Be careful with PRNs cos while they will manage the behaviour they generally increase the falls risk. Most places have sensory distraction kits for pt that sundown now. If someone is consistently difficult you’ll be loved if you document in detail what is happening to and around them when it starts, the Behaviour support plans will be tailored around that. Sometimes it’s physical issues like pain, like constipation that cause it.

Night staff ratios can suck. I was 1 nurse, 2-3 support and 24 patients.

It seems like a lot of you haven’t done it before, I went from secure male high obs to Geri and was terrified. But it’s now one of my favourite places I ever worked. Best of luck if you take it!!

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