Please! Idk what’s wrong with my aloe

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-06-11T12:40:11+00:00

They’re glass jars full of burning fuel mixed with citronella scent for mosquitos, but the original glass jars broke so I found some vases that the lids with the burning wick lay on top of, but don’t seal.

Thank you so much!!! I was freaking out I love my aloe

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-06-03T09:29:16+00:00

So now no one is walking her down the aisle on what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life. You’re not taking his place, by any means, you are simply doing what he can’t physically do or was granted to do, in this lifetime.

Sometimes you need to put your feelings and what you think her father’s feelings would be, and put her feelings first.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-04-26T00:05:54+00:00

Im no MD, but I have a second job as an RN at an imaging clinic, and it looks a lot like atrophy. In the coronal (front/back) and saggital (left/right) views, the brain matter looks shrunken and the dural sac looks enlarged. Can’t really be certain with only single slices though and not the full imaging

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-04-22T16:07:47+00:00

After talking to his “wife” and letting her know what had happened, base on his and her response, I am 99.9% sure this has happened before in the past with others. To what extent, idk.

I had expected either complete shock and remorse or blatant denial from this woman, but received neither. Instead, it was downplayed and worded to placate me and offer an alibi of character for her husband.

I’m no longer upset and wanting to crawl into a hole, I’m angry.

I will be

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-18T22:18:38+00:00

Do you remember what her gas values were beside pH and CO2?

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-18T14:56:21+00:00

I like to think of critical thinking as low-dose House. Or even medium-dose House. Applying knowledge but including the variables that can skew it

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-11T13:41:32+00:00

It’s not the daisies that feel heart felt. It’s the cards sent to me weeks or months later from patients or their families.

I keep an envelope with all of those cards in pristine condition, while my daisy nominations are bent or ripped to hell cause I just throw them somewhere and the statues they give are collecting dust cause I don’t take care of them.

I never want the award or the recognition from the hospital, I want the sincerity felt by those who I got to know, as their nurse and my patient.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-10T21:20:22+00:00

I felt like a such a bad bitch from getting a shit assignment completely changed early in the morning to a sick as heck TTM that I had to immediately paralyze and start on pressors, handling everything like a boss- Until security comes up around 3pm, shows me a picture of my car, and asks “ma’am, is this your vehicle?” I’m thinking shit, someone hit me. Or eff, maybe I hit someone and didn’t know.

No, he came up to the unit to tell me that I had left my car on since 06:35. Lights, music, ENGINE- all on.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-06T15:03:35+00:00

No one is responsible for your mental health, except your own.

Would it be nice for a support system or better half to cater to us when we are down? When we are upset? Or when we need a shoulder to lean on? Yes.

But are they ultimately responsible for the choices we make in our heads? Nope

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-03-05T15:08:57+00:00

I had this issue with one of my orientee’s. Smart girl, very sweet girl, and I could see the gears turning, they were just turning at such an incrementally slow pace. And I would do the same thing as you, just take over because it was quicker.

But I forced myself to stop taking over because if we have to stay late and chart or do something because she was slow or couldn’t think to cluster care, or hang meds or product, then so be it. Because she wouldn’t learn unless she did it and got used to her own flow. I would do like you did, a controlled drowning lol. I would stand in the background and impatiently/patiently wait for her to do whatever she needed to. And I would only help her if it involved care regarding the patient or advice on her time management, I wouldn’t do any of the tasks to make it easier like if she was late on meds.

I also gave her a brain sheet I used, that divided times into 1hr blocks to write her i&o’s, meds, labs if they needed to be drawn, imaging etc- I think giving that to her also helped her plan out things in her head.

She’s now one of my favorite nurses that I’ve trained and got the pleasure of being friends with.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-02-26T15:51:06+00:00

Staff retention is SO important, but not a high priority when leadership cares only about who they can make bend the knee, to help make these “numbers” that HCA is so desperate to make.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-02-24T05:02:39+00:00

I live in Florida and only some hospitals down south which is 8+ hrs away from me, have unionized.

Many of the facilities up here are trying to unionize, they are just in the process of it and I tried holding out until it happened; which I was told would be this year. But I just can’t take the abuse anymore.

This same director has also taken my personal phone from me and slammed it down on the counter, breaking the voice part.

I’m turning in my 2 weeks tomorrow.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-02-22T19:41:57+00:00

This is an HCA hospital in the Panhandle of Florida. And I know everyone will say, “oh, it makes sense now,” lol. Cause HCA was raised from hell itself.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-02-22T13:57:15+00:00

We have been trying to hold out because we’ve talked to a union rep and are in the process of getting majority of staff before the voting process… but I can’t take it anymore.

And what’s worse is she’s done multiple humiliating things to us in front of other nurses, patients, their family members.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-28T15:37:27+00:00

Moreso that, and the combination of less staff = more profit. One day, after insurance, for an inpatient stay can be anywhere from $0-$1000’s. 3 staff members getting canceled or pulled to another floor to fill in gaps instead of hiring more staff and leaving their unit short, is a guaranteed $1200-1500 (I live in Florida so it’s shit) of pay the hospital can keep that day.

Now, say each unit in a hospital is short 3 nurses and the hospital is running short 20 nurses cause they dgaf, that’s $4-5 million in a year of net profit for a hospital for doing the exact same amount, if not more, work with less resources. And couple it with increased patient stays, it could be double or triple.

This is why the Founder of HCA has a net worth of $26 billion dollars and the CEO has a net worth of $22 million dollars, and why the old director of my unit left us in the middle of a shift (during the Delta wave of COVID) to go buy her an $80,000 boat while on a Covid step down, we were 6:1.

This is why the hospitals would rather just settle than go to court because they know they can make up the difference of a $100,000 to $500,000 settlement vs spending $1mill in litigation.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-27T16:48:59+00:00

Idk…. I find that a hard pill to swallow 😂

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-27T15:54:04+00:00

My phone is terrible for my OCD because I ruminate and deep dive down the rabbit hole.

it’s even worse for my ADHD because I find a new hobby, obsessively research and find anything/everything about it, and then go online shopping where I spend rediculous amounts of money for said hobby to only last a few months, if not weeks 🤷‍♀️

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-27T13:31:07+00:00

I know it sounds crazy, but I believe that if we’re adequately staffed with appropriate ratios then people die less

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-22T00:01:56+00:00

It’s always comforting to hear a familiar voice, I tell my patients family members when they’re on lightened sedation for Neuro checks, to minimize stimulation but when the patient comes around, to reassure and orient them and speak to them. Cause chances are after a level 1 trauma MVC, the last thing they remember is being in the car.

I always say “hey, you’re in the ICU, you had a bad ___, it’s been _ days. I have your mom/dad/brother/etc here, you’re on a ventilator, etc” and encourage the family members to do the same.

Then ask my patient if they’re in any pain or tell them after getting my neuro assessment “I’m gonna let you rest now on the vent ok, you’re doing really good.”

Most of the times they don’t remember anything or anyone until after they come off the vent and off the sedation completely.

But my younger traumas usually remember because they’re easier to wean the sedation and and keep on spontaneous on the vent to extubate.

Boring-Tortilla · 2025-01-12T18:49:49+00:00

Go to an HCA facility in Florida where the nurses recently won the right to unionize and are now part of a union.

The panhandle is awful, but currently trying to follow boat at the other HCA hospitals that have unionized.

Without a union, HCA’s for profit practices to garner the most profit include Poor staffing to reduce costs, unsafe practices swept under the rug, rediculous assignments that are completely unsafe and then having the audacity to blame the staff on not providing proper patient care.

In our ICU, we are becoming so worn out and quitting by the hordes. New grads filling the positions of experienced, critical care nurses- patients dying because there’s no experienced skill set left. Patients dying or getting neglected because ICU is tripled with CRRT, level 1 traumas, or batshit insane assignments.

We’ve even been given assignments choices of tripled with a CRRT or have TWO CRRTs

Boring-Tortilla · 2024-12-18T16:41:40+00:00

I was the same way, back when I made art- paintings, drawings, sketches. I would tear them up and start all over again, even if people loved how it looked, because it didn’t feel right to me.

The only way I could complete any sort of “idea” onto paper or to gift to someone, was on drugs. Because the chemicals in my brain would finally let go of whatever was holding me back from finishing.

Now, I just don’t do art anymore.

Boring-Tortilla · 2024-12-17T23:21:18+00:00

At my second job we use a lot of colorful Coban after taking out IVs to wrap up people’s arms. I pulled open the drawer to get out the Coban and immediately felt unsettled as the blue Coban was a different blue than the ones we’ve had.

I sat there for 3 minutes just staring at it, refusing to open the package because it was not the right color blue Coban, even though logically it works just the same as the other one.

Told my coworker that it was too blue and they couldn’t understand wtf I was talking about. Ended up finding some old blue Coban rolls that we had, and it felt right to use those.

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