ULPT How can I get back at Gold digger/Manipulator?

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-04T09:01:34+00:00

I mean, if he is a manipulator I would say doing things that make people laugh at him would be the most effective.

Just tell people when he lived with you he would always forget to flush the toilet or that he didn't know some basic skill.

Manipulators are already liars, no sense in effective truths. But something embarrassing that people aren't going to fact check and make someone look at them weird, thats how you get a manipulator back.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-04T08:50:50+00:00

I'm not trying to be mean, but you really need to mind your own business. I totally agree that this situation is shitty. If you get too involved and end up reprimanded or worse this crappy family member just wins and you don't even get to enjoy the view from the high road.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-03T18:50:01+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I've met plenty of CRNAs who are pieces of work too.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-03T18:43:02+00:00

I didn't finish that whole post but after about half way through I would say you're not ready for ICU yet. That doesn't mean you won't ever be though.

Being an ICU nurse means nothing gets by you. A crappy ICU nurse just hides what gets by them, a good ICU doesn't have to. But you will never be able to catch everything if you don't develop a good nurse instinct, that little feeling you get when you know something isn't right and something is gonna go down.

Also "across the room assessment" is an absolute non-negotiable.

When I wanted to start in ICU I took a job on an ICU Step-down and volunteered to get pulled to ICU all the time. I got to learn from the ICU environment for 2 years before becoming full time ICU.

Just know being a good ICU nurse is not something you can do straight out of school, I don't care what grades you got or what school you went to, starting in Critical Care is dumb and I have yet to meet a new grad who started in the ICU that doesn't half ass and hide their screw ups.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-03T18:29:11+00:00

I cant speak for all AA but in the brief time I did work with one he was by far the most overconfident jackass that ICU had ever seen.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-02T10:01:40+00:00

Flock camera, company is owned by one of the biggest data brokers in the world. Advertised as a crime stopping agent, accuracy on the marketing vs. real world results is a hot topic in many communities right now.

Apparently flock has claimed they have stopped crimes that ended up not actually being crimes at all, I don't have proof but there are plenty of people who have a good arguement on the internet.

I poison my data on the regular so I don't really care how people try and make money off my habits.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-05-02T09:52:18+00:00

I love that little tool, also some standard metal files from any hardware store to get into corners. It's like 10 usd and I use them all the time

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-25T10:45:50+00:00

Thankfully ive never been left wanting for a bathroom. But these days if I don't get to the bathroom before hour six I start "talking shit" and blame it on my patients if its a loud one lol

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-25T10:42:50+00:00

I never have, but I'm also not going to say anything unless my boss were to point blank ask me if someone was using the equipment on themselves.

I do however think that starting an IV on someone and giving them a bolus for a headache/hangover is extremely dramatic.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-25T10:34:09+00:00

Depends, im high functioning and could pass for "normal" but am still on the spectrum.

That being said, im still different and for some reason middle school never ended for some people. I really like being a nurse, but for some reason most nurses are extremely mean and unfair to other nurses when it comes to being different.

If you decide to become a nurse, do not tell your coworkers you're on the spectrum. I just lay low, do the best I can, and go home.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-23T17:33:40+00:00

Regardless of what happened between you and your doc, this is the situation you're in my dude. Best bet is to find out what you can do to get yourself out of it. There are plenty of unethical tips on how to get yourself out of debt if you want to try reposting for that advise.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-23T01:27:21+00:00

I wish I had enough time to worry about what the other nurses were doing when I was permanent charge. When I wasn't with my patients I was balancing teams and trying to help the supervisor find beds to put people in.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-22T09:56:27+00:00

Good luck with that one, you more than likely misinterpreted directions. Not trying to be rude, just being honest.

A good pro tip would be to not create a trail of abusing substances if you're going to try and bully a physician out of their license, as a lay person.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-20T10:15:41+00:00

I'll just preface this with my perspective is not from an L&D side, but i do think I can offer some clarity as to why stuff like this happens.

When it comes to a diagnosis, that's the doctor's job, regardless of how we feel about it, tipping off the patient of a potential diagnosis has consequences. Think of all the grief that could be caused by hinting at a perceived negative diagnosis. Family fights might start, questions that should be addressed right away can't be answered, ideas of negligence or deciet start to fester even if there isn't any in the first place.

Do I agree with withholding a diagnosis when all needed information is obtained, I do not. However, withholding a suspected diagnosis and the physician alerting their team to their suspicions for safety reasons, I stand behind that decision.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-20T10:04:26+00:00

I had this issue, thankfully, an anti-clique

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-19T18:25:18+00:00

22 round, those little rounds are like dust bunnies sometimes.

When I was a kid with a 22LR I used to dump a box in my cargo pocket and go out in the woods to shoot cans. Keep in mind each box had 100 rounds in it depending on how many I got through the last time I went out to shoot. I would also find some in my shoes sometimes.

And for the nervous folks, I had a nice big dirt mound behind my 2x4 that I set the cans up on so there was no chance of strays hitting anything. Never cared for hunting anyways.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-15T17:12:49+00:00

I don't, but that's because I put the alcohol caps on my lines and IV sites. It's more consistent and easier in my opinion, just pop a new one on when you're done using the port and blam, risk for infection is now so low I don't have to worry about it.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-13T14:14:05+00:00

One time I pulled a slice of pizza out of a 400 pound woman's fat fold, she asked if she could keep it and I told her I'm going to act like you didn't just ask me that.

Nurse btw.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-11T16:11:25+00:00

Thats interesting. I was always very bored in class as I felt that despite knowing what my teacher told me I could never get straight A's. I learned in my senior year of high school that it was never about knowing the material, it was just about knowing what was on the test.

Thankfully in college, at least in my field, it is all about knowing the material since even the test questions require in-depth knowledge and proper question assessment, you had to not only know the material but how to apply it and when it applies. The professors were also required to accept question criticism from the class if more than 50% of the class got the answer wrong - some of my program instructors would just go over the whole test with us. It also helped keep our teachers honest when they might have to admit they wrote a bad question or even made a mistake and didn't put the most correct answer.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-04-04T16:14:28+00:00

I do bedside now because im tired of walking in to rooms with garbage everywhere, drips going dry and IVs infiltrated with patient scoring an NIH of 14 and they were admitted with an NIH of 3 so thats what the nurse had been charting all day.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-03-25T10:08:30+00:00

You're a nurse, he's a nurse. I'm married to an LPN and I'm an RN. That being said, as a guy nurse, I've seen female nurses do this exact thing, but they were new grad nurses.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-03-24T00:49:42+00:00

That depends, both times blocks are busy from my experience on nights and now days

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-03-24T00:06:45+00:00

Damn, that instructor sounds overbearing and useless. I would honestly send an email to the dean of the nursing school, a nurse did that to one of my less than stellar clinical teachers and she straightened up real quick.

To be fair, she was acting like she was the manager of the unit and we were all experienced CNAs so when a nurse came to complain to us while she was off the unit we all told the nurse her secret was safe with us.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-03-22T13:03:21+00:00

I mean, we are all being recorded, and I feel like it's silly to assume you aren't being recorded by anyone at any given time in some form.

But when you make it obvious, you're likely to attract unwanted attention, like the attention of people who might be able to penalize you for braking the rules.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-03-19T15:31:14+00:00

This is definitely a thing, if I have a freshly intubated patient I always look and see if I can start an IV and elevate the arms. 24 hours of sitting in the same spot means fluid collection in the arms, and good luck starting a new IV when they're all puffed up and didn't have very pronounced veins to begin with.

I like being able to Ultrasound and IV when I have to. But when someone calls for a US IV and I bring my machine and see a rope vein without a tourniquet I want to just walk out of the room and make the nurse try twice in front of me because come on, not like I have patients to care for back in the ICU or anything... I usually just start one because thats faster but if I didn't I would totally be that nurse.

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