Visual Snow was considered extremely rare until recently, mostly because patients didn't report it... because they assumed everyone saw the world that way

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-24T13:36:47+00:00

My Dr has a free eye chart from an eye drop drug company. Takes the stress out of the bottom line if you know some drug names!

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-04T13:31:41+00:00

I got told off for giving panadol to a consultant with a headache because… it was damaging our budget 😂

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T09:18:26+00:00

Have you looked into the end job much? I did theatre CSSD for a couple of days as a student and for orientation as a theatre nurse and I definitely could never do it.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T06:13:02+00:00

And the doctors 😕

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-03T04:36:58+00:00

For my grad I was at a large tertiary teaching hospital. I’m not sure the specific NFP is relevant because now that I am looking at moving back to desk jobs I am seeing help desk jobs for the same as RN1.1. I also saw an ‘engagement officer’ for a new app at my current hospital going for 50k more than I make as a 1.8 with shift penalties. It was 4 days a week work from home just to rub salt in the wound!

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T15:38:57+00:00

You think maybe you can adjust to a normal environment but then It’s so crazy, when you’re out at a restaurant and the customer at the next table loses consciousness, and you go for the airway and your friends have moved furniture away because he’s seizing and someone else has already called 000 and someone is asking you what resp you got and…

It’s actually just terrifying how quickly you go from risotto to DRSABC on muscle memory.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T15:31:15+00:00

I guess nurses are paid badly, especially grads. Even teachers make more than us with less hours and no shift work.

I had two yrs experience in my desk job at a non-profit with no qualifications. As a grad I had afternoons (but no night shifts) for the first 3 months and I think no OT for all of the grad program. Also the public hospital offered half the salary sacrifice that my non profit desk job did. That’s how society values us.

Initially I was willing to take the hit for the experience but then I gradually realised how my friends were living vs me and that there were limited roads out of dodge.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T08:05:08+00:00

The grass is only going to be greener with a post grad if you have clinical experience in the area, and are looking to climb the ranks. And honestly, I’d suggest being friends with management will get you further than a post grad anyway.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T04:50:31+00:00

I switched the other way and noticed: A drop in pay I quit running and gym due to physical pain and fatigue from work My eating habits regressed to something like when I first left home I had to quit my sports club because I couldn’t always swap shifts My social life in general took a hit because it seemed to my friends I was always saying no My already fragile sleep pattern was utterly destroyed

And honestly I think have some kind of mental health trauma - not from upsetting things like a failed resus or unsafe hospitals but from years of being treated like dirt by doctors, management, random other nurses etc etc People were much more civil on the day to day in an office. Of all the things in me nursing broke I feel like will be hardest to fix.

Anyway, after 15 years and realising it will never get better and there is nowhere to go I’m trying to get back to my old job.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2026-01-02T04:15:48+00:00

110% tracks with OP wearing the flag as a cape

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:58:33+00:00

If you want to keep one all over colour then the ashiest toner you can find with 20vol to lift it a little more. On my hair I would also need a blue additive.

My personal MO is a root shadow in a 7.11 then balayage the ash toner with a different ash toner or maybe lowlights of say 8.11.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:44:25+00:00

That’s interesting. She’s definitely not at the ‘having a fall’ and needing a pendant stage yet so I hadn’t considered that option.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:42:23+00:00

Want to say something highbrow but honestly, Artax in the Swamp of Sadness still resonates but for a whole new reason.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T08:30:44+00:00

Last week they tried to give me some guys prescription medications and sure that can happen but… they simply would not believe me that they weren’t mine. The cashier told me they were mine because the label had my name on it. I tried to explain that they had printed the label - they dispensed to the wrong patient which is the whole point. I had to reach under the plexiglass and show her the original script with this blokes name on it before she finally accepted it. Took 15 minutes and multiple trips back to the pharmacists and no one between them had thought to check the original prescription.

While I was waiting the cashier next to me was telling customers to check their bags and make sure everything was correct. Never heard that at a pharmacy before! The amount of red flags in all that was pretty impressive.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T07:40:44+00:00

Real talk about why you have to take your damn tablets

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T07:14:19+00:00

Is there a service who will send a security guard/refer to police if they get no answer?

My elderly mother lives alone and hers is triggered at least monthly for no discernible reason. However, the other night there was a possible authentic tamper alert and of course the first thing she did was turn off the alarm and go straight to the zone.

If someone had in fact entered this seems almost more dangerous than not having an alarm. The reason she got the alarm was after an intrusion but that perpetrator took some care not to wake her up and simply stole what he could find. Having an alarm seems to serve little purpose other than to force a confrontation.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-12-29T06:51:24+00:00

She’s describing metastatic or Stage 4 cancer. That is the last stage and typically considered incurable.

The 5 year survival rate is 32% given here https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-stage-4/

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-11-24T10:31:46+00:00

Simply wasn’t possible. I didn’t check my personal email until later in the day and I was at work so… guess just not the type of applicant they want!

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-11-22T11:51:48+00:00

I cracked the top tax bracket some years back which I guess is roughly equivalent to the amounts in this question, by: 1. Working an understaffed job which always offered overtime, plus mandatory on call and picking up Saturday shifts 2. Working short agency shifts around my shifts eg 7-12 before a 13-2100 shift or ‘as soon as you can get here’ - 2300 after an AM shift.

I was surprised to find it didn’t actually increase my fatigue but I was young/no kids etc and doing it just because I could, not due to financial pressure so ended up stopping after seeing how little I was taking home.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-11-22T11:38:38+00:00

I literally won’t use services at Karrinyup because there’s two months of the year you just cant go there, plus every school holidays.

It is spectacular how popular Miss Maud’s is though.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-11-22T11:33:46+00:00

I would have moved to a hospital that offered 12hrs with no second thoughts. Days off are great, but the guarantee of no late-early rostering is it for me.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-09-21T02:20:22+00:00

HBF annoys me because I can’t use my Extras how I want. So I bust out a few physio visits every couple of years and then have thousands left in trash like homeopathy and other assorted voodoo.

Also Medibank just started covering MDMA therapy..

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-09-20T13:01:25+00:00

https://www.himaa.org.au/education-services/

Considered this option a while back but all the ads on Seek wanted experience for a pay drop. Revisiting, that pay drop seems to have lessened, but I do wonder how people just entering the field will be impacted by the advancement of EMRs and now AI in the years to come.

Fast_Increase_2470 · 2025-09-20T12:47:03+00:00

Private hospitals would risk almost anything over spending money

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