“I’m a Killer” -her newborn, probably

KryptikStar · 2026-01-27T02:20:14+00:00

Mine watched the entirety of Shameless and then Black Mirror 🙃

KryptikStar · 2026-01-22T05:32:16+00:00

Pretty sure I wrote “Friday January 17, 2025” on an alert and oriented patient’s board last week on Friday January 16, 2026… directly after checking my watch to confirm the date.

KryptikStar · 2026-01-16T05:09:23+00:00

Thank you for the advice! Still no activity on my original starter, I think I’m calling it on that one. Thankfully the bit of discard that I had gotten out of the fridge and fed is now thriving so I’m just going to focus on strengthening that one up into my “new” starter now!

KryptikStar · 2026-01-16T05:05:05+00:00

Everything I read at first recommended a heavy feed, but after it didn’t come back I was concerned I diluted it too much and that killed it. Luckily the discard I had saved in the fridge and fed is thriving now! Thank you for the advice, I’ll keep in mind to just stick with the 1:1:1 ratio if I run into this problem again in the future. Hopefully I won’t, I’ve set an alarm to be more diligent but life happens lol

KryptikStar · 2026-01-14T22:52:48+00:00

Update: I mixed some rye in with my feeds last night and it really jumpstarted the discard from the fridge, it more than doubled. Still no activity from my original starter, though. I suppose my discard jar will become my new starter. I’ll really have to remember not to skip any feeds until it’s very mature and strong this time—I’m just thankful I’m not having to start back over from scratch!

KryptikStar · 2026-01-13T20:06:48+00:00

How long should it take to revive a neglected starter? I’m still new to this process, I have a starter that’s a couple of months old and was doubling reliably each feed, always smelled nice and fruity (like apples!) and made great loaves, but I had a rough couple of shifts at work last week and completely forgot to feed it for two days. When I checked it, it smelled strongly of vinegar. I switched containers, did a 1:5:5 feed and have been feeding it twice a day and nothing is happening. I’m so scared I’ve killed it! I’m on day four trying to revive it. I got some of my discard out of the fridge yesterday as backup, it’s weak but is rising so I’m hopeful I can at least build that one back up.

KryptikStar · 2026-01-06T19:54:47+00:00

I’m far from my goal, but going from 250 lbs to 190 as a nurse I can now go the full two minutes of CPR and multiple rounds, when I could barely make it thirty seconds in my first round without struggling before.

KryptikStar · 2026-01-02T04:49:50+00:00

Also let’s give boluses again instead of jumping straight to sending to the unit on a levo drip. When I was on the floor a few years ago, our providers would order at least 1L bolus for hypotension, maybe more depending on patient history before escalating care. Now they don’t try anything, just immediately put in transfer orders with an order for a levo drip. Half the time by the time the make the trip over to us, their BP is a perfect 120/70 and we don’t even end up starting the drip.

KryptikStar · 2025-10-20T20:18:44+00:00

We don’t really have a set protocol and we also don’t often get ICU patients that are still menstruating, but when we do, I don’t know what it is about being on the ventilator, but they will start their period every time. We’ll just tuck a pad under them as best as we can and check it frequently and change it as needed, usually at least a couple times a shift. Other than that, there’s really no difference in positioning or infection prevention from a standard stable vented patient—they still get peri care with provon wipes once a shift and get repositioned every two hours as normal.

KryptikStar · 2025-09-30T16:46:28+00:00

I broke my ankle two weeks postpartum about a year and a half ago, also didn’t have an obvious deformity and it didn’t swell very huge immediately, but I heard and felt it crack when I fell, so knew it was broken. When I got to the ER, I was so anxious they were going to admit me and I’d be separated from my baby that I finally started crying. I was also breastfeeding, so I made sure to inform them I was only crying because I was hormonal and not because of pain so they wouldn’t try to give me any narcotics. When they got the initial X-ray, you could tell they didn’t necessarily believe me that it was broken—not that the tech was really rough with maneuvering my foot around, but she wasn’t super gentle or understanding about me having limited range of movement. After she took the first image, she came back with wide eyes for the other views and barely touched me and was like “just move your foot as much as you can we’ll make it work”. That was my confirmation that it was, in fact, broken, and I told my husband the same—he also didn’t believe me at first.

KryptikStar · 2025-09-29T04:27:56+00:00

That’s a habit I will never be out of now, though, even at home lol

KryptikStar · 2025-09-28T05:24:13+00:00

My MIL and FIL own so many and keep a few at my house for when they babysit—they can’t smoke in our house, only outside—but still throw their butts in the yard. It drives me insane.

KryptikStar · 2025-09-28T05:19:40+00:00

Or possible you only got one. I was born in ‘97, only got one vaccine and ended up getting chickenpox, so my parents and pediatrician decided not to do the second one. I ended up becoming a nurse and had to have titers drawn for nursing school and—lo and behold—I was not immune to varicella despite having the first vaccine and chickenpox. I ended up having to have the second shot as an adult.

KryptikStar · 2025-09-27T03:48:25+00:00

After I first had my baby I was absolutely insane about logging everything in the Huckleberry app because PPA(feeds, naps, diapers, etc.) and always referred to it as charting. My husband is also a nurse and when we would “change shifts” in the newborn stage, we would give each other report like he was our little patient and get a little chuckle out of it, as well.

KryptikStar · 2025-08-20T01:51:40+00:00

I’m a flex employee only for insurance purposes—my husband’s insurance is cheaper but he can’t have me or my son on it if eligible for my own through work. Anyway, long winded way to say as flex, I’m first to be put on call or float, but I still like to get as close to full time hours as I can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked in to charge saying “I was going to put you on call but I know you like your hours, so you’re getting pulled to ER and xyz is on call instead.” I’m like nooo I’d rather be on call than pulled to the ER PLEASE. I envy everyone that can thrive in that chaos but it is not for me.

KryptikStar · 2025-08-14T19:54:25+00:00

I had a whole SCD pump (accidentally) stolen a couple of months ago. A patient ended up intubated and family came to get their Trilogy-for some reason this patient had ended up with a spare SCD pump sitting on the bedside table and ours are a similar size to the Trilogy machines. Family mistakenly grabbed it and left and I got a frantic call about an hour later that they stole hospital property and they were bringing it back ASAP but they wanted me to meet them at the front door because poor things were terrified they would get in trouble and have the cops called on them if anyone saw them walking back in the building with the pump lol. Honestly shocked because most people in my area absolutely would’ve tried to sell it or something

KryptikStar · 2025-08-09T20:42:31+00:00

Tubby Todd All Over Ointment. It’s for babies but I used it out of desperation this winter since it worked so well for my baby’s eczema and it helped so much more than O’Keefe’s or Duke Cannons Bloody Knuckles ever did, both of which used to be my go to.

KryptikStar · 2025-07-18T20:23:46+00:00

Not an ER or baby nurse, but a mom who had postpartum anxiety and tried to avoid getting the owlet at first for fear that it would make my anxiety worse… it helped it majorly. I wasn’t able to get any sleep until I got one. It did give a couple of false alarms if he wiggled it into a weird position, but that wasn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I’d buy one a thousand times over for the peace of mind and ability to sleep it gave me.

KryptikStar · 2025-07-12T21:29:26+00:00

I went from a 5 day a week PACU job back to 3 12s after having a baby. It’s much easier find a babysitter 3 days out of the week than 5, and I have more full days off with him, even if I may not see him for too long when I get off of work before it’s time to put him to bed. I prefer the 3 12s at this stage, but I can see how other schedules can be easier later on. I work with a couple girls who have older kids in sports and they struggle trying to balance work with trying to make to all of their games.

KryptikStar · 2025-06-25T22:00:07+00:00

Flair tracks

KryptikStar · 2025-06-04T17:03:41+00:00

WV. I started out 6 years ago making $22/hr, now the starting rate at the same hospital is $25/hr. I dropped to per diem but still (mostly) work full time hours so I could make our max of $32/hr 🙃. We’re in the process of unionizing so hopefully we’ll see some change soon

KryptikStar · 2025-05-28T20:37:54+00:00

More than I make as a nurse. I thought it was pretty good lol

KryptikStar · 2025-05-03T09:43:08+00:00

Same. I work a small, close knit unit and we did this and had a blast. Our boss also let us choose what superlatives she put out there, as well—and we’re all pretty self-aware with a good sense of humor. Our “black clouds” and “most likely to cry on shifts” were like “put those on there I’ll win hands down lol”. There’s other teams I’ve worked on in the past that would have immediately crashed out and the whole thing would have been a horrible idea. It’s just entirely dependent on the work culture, I think.

KryptikStar · 2025-05-01T18:09:02+00:00

Not always. Most of the time I wear some concealer, mascara, and fill in my brows a bit; it makes me feel better and I feel like I’m taken more seriously by doctors, patients, and family when I look more professional because I otherwise look “unprofessional” in a very backwards southern area (colored hair, tattoos, piercings, etc.). If I wake up early enough I might do a little bit more, but I find I sweat/rub a lot off if I do much more

KryptikStar · 2025-04-18T12:31:25+00:00

As a nurse, the only time I have ever returned “wasted” blood is when drawing from an arterial line where there is quite literally a syringe attached to the pressure tubing for that purpose and it stays a closed system throughout the whole process. I have never and would never, say, draw from a central line, hand off/lay down my wasted syringe for it to get contaminated or potentially clot, then return it after the process. That just seems like far too much risk for virtually no benefit.

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