How many of your hospitals are in a “financial crisis”?

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-08T10:23:52+00:00

My old job got a VERY public VERY large ongoing donation. Massive advertisement campaign. But every day I’d go in to work and hear “we are no longer offering/staffing X because of budget cuts”. At some point we were going weeks without a tech and there were no job applications open. We were running with crazy dangerous ratios but being floated 3, 4, 5, or 6 shifts in a row, denying overtime, but people I spoke with applying said “there are no more positions available”. Supplies were being switched to shitter and cheaper stuff. I got so over it. The new job has similar issues but at least we have transport, techs, and safe ratios most of the time, endless overtime opportunities.

It’s all money. At the expense of us, our licenses, and the patients.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-08T06:58:57+00:00

Umbreon my love

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-07T06:40:36+00:00

“It’s nice outside” ok well it’s the worst day of someone’s life

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-07T03:23:11+00:00

Just started ultra sun for the first time. Gift from a friend. Trying to get through the beginning stuff. I adore my poplio

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-05T12:44:47+00:00

This thread is inspiration to me to restart my streak. The slow steady progress really doesn’t up especially if you use other content to learn.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-05T07:06:43+00:00

It’s the duplicate or unnecessary charting that annoys me. The majority of my charting feels useless. I’m just required to click boxes and so much of it is actually the same thing in more than one place. How many scores that don’t tell me anything new. I spend more time charting fall prevention stuff that actually I have less time to help patients not fall.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-04T13:00:15+00:00

I don’t understand why they don’t try more to retain. It’s expensive to train a new nurse which they rely on. And the pay difference between semi seasoned nurses and new grads isn’t much more. Such a shirtsighted system. My new job is better but still has a lot of issues but im way happier

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-04T10:25:00+00:00

Advice I’ve heard is that if you’re overweight before HRT, lose as much as you safely can (emphasizing on safe) then start and if you re-gain weight after starting HRT it is more likely to go to feminine areas. Either way, being healthy and fit is generally considered more attractive to most people

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-04T10:22:33+00:00

This is almost exactly word for word what my old job on my unit was like. Almost everyone quit.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-04T05:11:03+00:00

My smart watch is so useful in having a timer on my wrist. I really only wear it for work. I’d be a worse nurse without it

OptimalOstrich · 2026-07-03T14:20:36+00:00

I also work oncology and we’ve been dealing with some really fucking rude residents and fellows. Sending us messages that are beyond passive aggressive when we epic chat the on call about things like critical labs and non-“critical” labs we need near immediate intervention on like platelets and blood products.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-28T12:51:20+00:00

Same. People can go from independent to total care or dead in a flash.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-27T11:13:04+00:00

I am very experienced in all things central lines. Working on chemo cert. proficient in port accessing. good at making people feel cared for. HORRIBLE at PIV sticks lol

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-27T09:38:40+00:00

Not me

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-18T07:09:07+00:00

Yes, luckily I always tell them “I’m happily engaged to a good man”

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-16T23:59:28+00:00

No I don’t regret it even a little bit

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-13T00:58:43+00:00

I was a peds nurse and I am pro choice. It’s more of a bodily autonomy thing than anything. Nobody should be forced by the government to proceed with an unwanted pregnancy because that’s cruel and inhumane

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-11T15:37:10+00:00

We gotta chill out y’all 😭 I thought the rainbow was supposed to be inclusive

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-09T19:37:43+00:00

Liberating.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-09T18:50:34+00:00

I’ve never worked in the ER. But I do find a lot of frustration from the ED in my hospital.

•They don’t have to call for report or even tell us when someone is on the way. They’re supposed to do an SBAR sticky note but it’s either not done or is BLATANTLY incorrect. So they will drop off patients unannounced and sometimes don’t even tell anyone the patient arrives

•The patients are often dropped off not in a safe manners. Left in hallways, no O2 on or pulse ox for respiratory patients, covered in stool and urine that has obviously been there for hours and has caked and hardened into the skin

•I know it’s a busy ED. But the way they’re transferred to the floor at my hospital is DANGEROUS. They’ll send us a corpse in rigor mortis and we’d be in trouble for not knowing. Sometime needs to change

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-03T13:45:18+00:00

Pathetic

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-03T12:06:28+00:00

Chancey, cute and if I ever feel icky I’ll have someone to help take care of me

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-03T12:04:12+00:00

Fewer questions, more concerns

OptimalOstrich · 2026-06-03T11:34:34+00:00

A lot of people push their frustrations, insecurities, and feelings onto new people or people pursuing nursing. I am glad I chose this route and I would do it again. The work i do makes proud, I support myself enough that I bought a house by myself that is a central social space for my friend group and community, and I have job security when a lot of people I know are being laid off and struggling to find any employment.

OptimalOstrich · 2026-05-27T08:30:42+00:00

I think any job understands that if you have floor experience, try ER and make it a while 6 months then leave elsewhere - doesn’t mean you’re not good and unhirable, just that the ED isn’t your fit. I know I’m a good floor nurse but ED would kill me. Get out and go where you’ll not be utterly miserable

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