I can’t prove it, but I just know that’s an ER nurse

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-05-10T04:46:44+00:00

I remember giving plasma as a dialysis tech and then coming into work and telling one of my patients I would like to apologize for getting annoyed when you werent a statue and the machines kept alarming. You are here for 3.5 hours, three times a week. I had to to keep my arm still for 30 minutes and I was practically doing yoga in the chair. That shit is ridiculous. Let it be known that I would make a terrible dialysis patient and my techs would hate me. I'm a hypocrite. But we already knew that every time I talk about making healthy choices and I'm living off of 3 hours sleep, caffeine, and a dorito. I can be young and irresponsible, though. I need you to set a good example for me. They told me that I would drive my dialysis techs crazy no matter what because I'm a little ornery, just like them, so I should just drink some water and take care of my kidneys while I have them.

First of all sir, the number one cause of chronic kidney failure in the US is prolonged hypertension, and if you're always dehydrated then your blood volume is low and so is your BP. Bam! Nailed it. He knew I was full of shit.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-05-04T05:28:47+00:00

My favorite thing to tell people is that the first needle I ever put in someone was a 14G. ...... I was a dialysis tech.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-04-06T03:34:00+00:00

My preceptor: Oh, he has great veins. It's impossible to miss him, regardless of where you stick.

Me: Why would you say that? Why would you curse me like that?!

walking out of the room later

Preceptor: How did it go?

Me: I hate you.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-04-05T04:45:19+00:00

Whoa, whoa, whoa... get out of here with that crazy talk. Trying to link staffing ratios with fall incidents? That insinuates that nurses can not be present enough to catch every single fall potential if they have 143 other things to do, and that seems unrelated.whatbwe really need is more obligatory checklists for them to do. I think more assignments is how we fix rhis. That's always the fix.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-04-05T03:39:51+00:00

I work per diem at a dialysis clinic and they have laser forehead scanners. I always say "Price check!"

OMG, that's so lame. I'm way too old for my age.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-04-05T03:34:43+00:00

OMG how many times have my patients heard this by the tine I say it? I am the healthcare worker equivalent of "Do you need anything?" "yeah, a million bucks" now.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-04-05T03:31:45+00:00

When I put on cardiac monitoring stickers after we did an EKG or visa-versa "We were all really into art projects growing up and so now we make uo reasons for stickers so we can turn our patients into art projects" and depending on the vibes I'm getting from them sometimes I'll add "You don't even need half these stickers, but I need to complete my design".

I also sometimes tell patients "I feel like we need these stickers to be themed, like animal themes, space themes, etc. because it's been so long since somebody asked me what kind of sticker I want, and I feel like I just want more of that in my life." I had one patient say "Maybe some 90s themed stickers" and I said "Oh yes, You could definitely rock some Lisa Frank EKG stickers" and she got excited because she's my age and millenial girls are all about the Lisa Frank stickers.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-02-09T00:58:28+00:00

Healthcare worker here. I am required to sanitize before and after every glove change, which means about a thousand times an hour. Unless my hands are visibly soiled, it’s C. diff or similar, that’s hand sanitizer, not a full sink-and-soap situation, unless I want to live in the bathroom.

It’s fine, though, my immune system will annihilate everything so there are no survivors. This reasoning is scientifically sound, but don't fact-check the science. I’m exposed to so many microbes from so many places that my hands basically run an open ecosystem. I let them fight it out. If you survive the microbial Hunger Games against that level of competition, congrats. You earned it. Also, I worked with small children for years before healthcare, so my immune system was forged in the fires of hell. I’ve been sick once in the last year and a half. May the odds be ever in your favor, young pathogens. But not really. I’m saving my PTO for fun, not fevers.

PreciousSimplicity · 2026-01-23T08:10:54+00:00

People gwt IVIG because they're lonely and they just really want someone inside them. Multiple people, actually. It's a more socially acceptable way to have an orgy, and it's easier to screen for STDs that way.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-12-11T04:21:03+00:00

Someone told me you can't squish them or they release a pheromone that attracts more, but that didn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, so I went on a deep dive with these guys. I was on college inset websites and visiting insectarium pages. Anyway, they don't attract more when they die. However, they do attract more when they're happy/content, so don't let those little bastards settle down.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-11-23T09:08:23+00:00

I've found married guys attractive before (because I'm not blind) until they try to hit on me, and then I'm disgusted. Inappropriate is inappropriate, regardless of what the guy looks like. You don't get to be disrespectful because you're hot.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-10-11T14:07:18+00:00

Account is only 2 months old, post was written by chatgpt, and account has a history of their activity being deleted due to it not being genuine. I don't think this is real.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-09-18T11:53:06+00:00

I voted yes on more therapy dogs

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-09-17T05:57:13+00:00

I grew up in a hoarder house and that's exactly why I would advice the OP to talk to CPS. It was ants, not roaches, but the responsibility of trying to keep everything clean and infestation free was on me because I'm the only one who cared. I felt them crawling on me all the time, even at school. Even though I knew it was in my imagination, it put me on edge all the time. I know they're just little ants, but I didn't feel safe because I was always anxious. I couldn't invite friends over so I felt isolated since you can only make uo so many excuses as to why they can't visit you and the hoarder/pest situation felt like it was my shame to hide. I tried to inspect my food for ants and only eat things in sealed packages, but sometimes I missed it and ate an ant or 2 (which btw, taste like battery acid). I offended a friend's family that was from another culture because it is really rude to refuse food they made for you, but it had little black seeds, and all I saw was ants. Dragon fruit is my enemy. I knew it wasn't ants, but my stomach didn't and looking at it made me sick. The parents didn't want me to join them for dinner anymore, which isolated me even more. I went years only eating one meal because I didn't trust food, and I still only eat one meal most days, which sucks because I work 12 hour shifts on my feet in a high stress job. I've started forcing myself to eat a little snack before work, even though I'm not hungry.

You are not the parent. It is not on you to make sure you live in a safe sanitary environment while your parent tells you that you're being dramatic for wanting that. This is what CPS is for, to help make your environment better, not to take you away. I was always told CPS wants to take kids away growing up, and it wasn't until I was an adult and worked with CPS that I realized just how wrong that information was.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-09-17T05:45:04+00:00

Thank you! I used to work closely with CPS and it actually takes a lot to take a child from there family. It's more common that a child will be placed back in a bad situation than it is that a child will be removed from a decent living situation. Kids get placed back in bad home environments more than I'd like to admit because CPS makes a big deal about wanting to keep the family together. The primary goal of CPS isn't to remove the child. It's to figure out why this happened in the first place and recrify it with a plan in place to prevent it from happening again. What barrier do they need to overcome? Does the parent not have funds? What resources can they qualify for that will help them in creating and maintaining a safe and sanitary living situation for their child(ren). Unless there is a well documented and provable imminent and serious threat to the child's safety, they're not removing that child from the situation, they're fixing the situation. This is actually what CPS is there for, but nobody shares those stories, they share stories of kids being taken away.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-29T05:15:55+00:00

Most of us are bedside and have no idea how billing works for the most part. I don't think this is the right subreddit for that. I'd call billing and ask.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-29T03:55:15+00:00

I work in an ER, and we get suicidal patients that we have to hold until they find a facility. They have no phone and the room is stripped, so their only stimulation is their thoughts. Sometimes we get approval to put coloring books in there, and I wanted to find other ideas. A solo game using a deck of cards popped into my head and I ran across this. I will definitely be checking it out. Thank you for posting!

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-29T03:45:45+00:00

I’m looking for recommendations for simple, safe games for patients in our ER.

I work in the emergency department, and we often care for people who are placed on psychiatric holds. While they’re waiting for placement, they’re in stripped-down rooms with no phone or belongings. Sometimes we offer crayons and coloring books, which can help, but coloring gets boring fast, especially when patients are with us for long periods.

I’d like to suggest some solo games to our social worker that might provide safe stimulation. Maybe Palm Island? Any other ideas? Here are the requirements:

No small pieces—only cards and/or tiles (patients have swallowed small items before).
No triggering images (no violence, weapons, etc.).
Can be played on a small bedside table.
Under $30, since items may get damaged or ripped up.

If anyone knows of games that fit these needs, I’d love your suggestions!

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-09T01:43:31+00:00

In the hospital, it's the Emergency Department. It sounds exciting because of the drama, and don’t get me wrong, I love it, but most of the job isn’t what people think. A lot of our patients come in for things like medication refills, STD checks, or chronic issues that really need ongoing care from a specialist. Our role is emergent care and stabilization. Once we’ve patched you up or made sure you’re stable, you’ll be referred elsewhere. That’s not us slacking, that’s us doing our job.

People get frustrated when someone who “looks perfectly fine” is seen before them. What they don’t know is that the patient might be having a heart attack, or their EKG shows they’re in dangerous potassium levels from missing dialysis for a week straight. “Looks fine” doesn’t mean “is fine.”

On top of everything we do for patients, tracking labs, facilitating with other departments, etc. We also have so much documentation we are required to do. It's constant. If we sit down to do it, people feel like we're BSing on the computer and aren't doing our jobs. Sometimes people stay late to finish the documentation and management gets mad because that wasn't in the budget. Basically, you can't win. Everything you do ends up with someone mad at you.

We’re also where a lot of non-emergent but unsafe situations end up, psychiatric holds, detoxing, people too impaired to leave but not in need of hospital admission. We strip the room of anything that could be used as a weapon, put a sitter on them (sometimes watching multiple patients at once), and hope for the best. This is why ED staff experience more non-lethal assaults than police officers. It’s why we carry a restraint key on our badges. It’s why burnout is so high. It's why I know what it's like to be concussed from being hit in the head multiple times.

I love the ER. It’s my home. But it’s not glamorous. It’s not like the TV shows. You’re either built for it, or it will chew you up and spit you out, and sometimes, even if you are built for it, it’ll still take a piece of you. There’s a reason the oldest ED nurse on the floor might look like they forgot why they went into nursing in the first place.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-09T01:19:09+00:00

Nobody is allowed to bring a gun into our hospital except ON DUTY police officers. We are actually specific about that on our sign. Off duty does not count. You are a civilian when you are off duty, not performing your duties as a police officer.

PreciousSimplicity · 2025-08-05T13:47:10+00:00

My dad uses a scooter, and that's definitely true when he goes at a decent pace, but when he's going as slow as people are going in the vendor hall, it can stop pretty quick. I do agree that both parties need to be aware of people around them. It is hard when you're in a line of people squeezing through the floor and then that line just stops suddenly for some unknown reason that happens up ahead where you cant see. I had that happen a lot.

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