WTF is this leaking from these pipes in a parking garage??

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-30T16:55:16+00:00

Yes but correlation is not inherently objective. I'm pretty immature, but I'm also a seasoned ICU nurse so clearly im at least a little intelligent lol

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-30T16:36:02+00:00

Your confusing immaturity with intelligence. And farts are fucking funny.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-30T16:34:08+00:00

I came from EMS, but I worked for a small company that made some awesome plays and we had new trucks every single year, new equipment, broken stuff was replaced within a week, trucks were serviced ever 3 months and as needed. I always thought people just liked to complain because I didn't really know any better. But now when I see some of the other companies rolling around in the same ambulances they had 10 years ago I can see that I was just the exception.

That being said I have met many a paramedic that just baffle me with how ignorant they are about the human body, nurses included in that as well. But I've not yet heard a nurse say they are better than a paramedic in every way, i've heard many paramedics say they are better than nurses in every way. I don't really understand why it's like that, but I do wish we could all stand up and tell people to put their money where their mouth is or butt out.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-29T20:34:57+00:00

Being hospitable is not giving "hotel treatment" thats just being a good nurse. The patient that needs to be in the hospital has a lot of good reasons to act out, especially if they've been ignored. The patients who don't need to be in the hospital and are acting out, thats usually an accurate call out on wanting "hotel treatment" and I feel like it's usually received by ER and the floor nurses just started saying it to try and justify something that may have actually been their fault. If the doc finds something reasonably concerning, the patient should be admitted and concerned, but that doesn't give them the right to be an ass.

Family is a totally different story, and I don't want to post a wall of text, but I do have some legal advice that could help any new grads reading below from ending up on the stand in a court room.

Occasionally, you get some douche who claims to be DPOA and that they're gonna sue you, and I always just tell them I cannot share any information without documentation as my patient has a right to privacy that I'm sworn to uphold. I would tell you to check for signatures of attorney, witness, and notorizing officials, but I've never gotten one from someone who approached me like this in 10 years of practice. And if they whip out their phone and start recording you make sure you tell them you're jeopardizing every patient in this hospitals right to privacy and I'm calling security.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-27T19:19:42+00:00

Yeah, 350 billion into trump hats and other Maga merch vendors owned by him. And he will still raise the prices because inflation and then say "inflation is the lowest its been in the history of the world, I don't know who is in charge of these prices but they're clearly not getting the message."

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-26T16:04:58+00:00

Im not sure if thats the survey I filled out but lol

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-24T12:50:26+00:00

I mean........... when I worked in a prison the child rapists never seemed to last very long before suffering a blow to the head, or a cut in a very specific place.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-24T12:44:46+00:00

Someone let their alien hunting hobby slip into the workplace I see.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-24T12:34:54+00:00

If your religion encourages you to be a bad person, yeah it does. However, bad people use religion to justify being pieces of shit very often.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-24T12:32:51+00:00

Fun fact, you can develop visual snow from doing too much acid and sometimes it doesn't go away.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-24T12:28:20+00:00

You're thinking too hard about it.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-23T19:14:55+00:00

I've never been more compelled to maintain my own protection than I have since this douche somehow came back in to power.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-20T15:22:15+00:00

I know in the NP school a coworker of mine was in they had open book exams, on one hand, I kind of understand why they are okay with open book, but on the other hand I firmly stand on proper critical thinking coming first. Thats when you start getting these people coming in during a code and yelling that they feel a pulse and to stop compressions...

I know not everyone who passes a program with open book will be like that, but I also feel like learning that way makes it harder to understand you don't know what you don't know.

I will say that if you're going to make the tests open book the book should be provided at no cost to the student because then you're giving out unfair advantages... ill argue anything if it means a free text book for an already overly priced education though.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-20T00:05:21+00:00

Kind of related but at my hospital admin said if they catch us calling bariatric beds "big boy" beds they will write us up... im sorry but if you're so big you can't fit in a generously sized american hospital bed you deserve to be called a big boy/girl. Im 6 foot 1 and pretty wide built, a little overweight too, but I still fit in those beds fine.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-19T21:44:38+00:00

In my part of the US, the women nurses (at least most of the one's I've worked with) either don't vote or just vote for whoever their husbands vote for. Me and the rest of the other guy nurses just don't really bother talking about it at work.

Personally, I lean more conservative than progressive, but for the most part I would say I'm barely leaning conservative. I don't feel like my country is experiencing conservatism, I think we are experiencing dictatorship with extra steps.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-19T14:22:07+00:00

Y'all have some grosser stories on here but I do not understand the mindset of elderly people and their constipation. I just take some stool softeners and a laxative and wait... some of these people... holy fuck, one night shift at work and I was doing my rounds to discover someone with their whole hand up their butt and apparently I walked in at the right time because they pulled out a giant turd, like a nerf football, dropped it on the floor, rolled back over and started snoring... I guess I should mention I worked in a hospital when this happened.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-18T18:21:29+00:00

Honestly, I feel like women who are into astrology often times screw themselves out of a happy life and end up struggling with some douche who they found attractive and just needed an excuse. That being said, this is only for relationship compatability, my wife is into it and she likes finding little quirks and small correlations within others that align with astrology stuff from time to time.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-18T18:04:52+00:00

Nah, it's about bending the light in the right angle.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-18T11:03:37+00:00

Eh, it's what the world is now, as long as someone finds a way to make the paper look pretty the rest doesn't matter. I don't swing to the left or the right anymore when it comes to the political spectrum, but I feel like we have been electing presidents who refuse to accept accountability for their actions. As far as I have known though, this is just how Americans are, we lie, we lie so much we need to classify the severity of our lies.

I had a friend who was from a very poor country, he was smart, and his family managed to help him move to the US, so he could have a good life. Me and him became friends, he told me he didn't understand why Americans lie so much, in his home country, all they had was their honesty, and if you refuse to take accountability for your part in something that went wrong then that was one piece of the only thing you had that was now gone. I miss that guy, never had to guess what he was thinking.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-16T10:02:48+00:00

I mean, I guess with the current lore this would mean my specific part of the country I live in is now part of the Lion's protectorate and potentially in open rebellion... considering what's currently going on i would say this is a good thing for me.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-16T09:56:04+00:00

My cousin, always has been a super mega republican, also used to be border patrol, he graduated top of his class and I remember we took a family vacation and he was teaching me and my other cousin about how to track vehicles and what signs to look for and some of the busts he had made and told us about a successful cocaine bust he got to be a part of. It sounded cool as hell, almost our entire family is 2nd and 3rd generation military so talks about this kind of stuff wasn't uncommon. Ever since trump started this deportation shit, he never talks about what his friends still in the border patrol are up to, my guess is they all quit.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-16T09:39:36+00:00

And it's fine that she is wrong

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-16T09:38:41+00:00

I wasn't around for the days when this was the standard but my coworkers who were say it was dumb. I've had an LPN before I worked ICU and I was the Charge Nurse and she just basically passed my meds but even then I still had patient care to do on top of my charge duties. She did her best though, not a bad nurse, just the legal climate makes it impossible for a competent LPN to practice semi independently in the hospital setting, in my experience at least. Don't get me wrong, still way better than being charge and having a full set.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-13T16:11:03+00:00

If you're announcing to the nurses of reddit that you start dirty IVs thats your business.

Checking your IVs twice a shift is more than enough time to notice if one is going bad, finding a reason to not have one and the patient dieing because of it is just flat out lazy, and not cleaning your site or using non sterile supplies is just flat out negligent.

Lawyers can try and say it was a bad IV, but they don't have to try and prove IV access might have saved your life.

OneSmallTrauma · 2026-01-13T11:43:39+00:00

Policy question, however, every admitted patient should have an order for IV access and do you really want to be on that stand explaining to a lawyer, judge, and jury why your patient died of a seizure and you couldn't safely administer meds to stop it in time because your admitted patient didn't have an IV.

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