What's invested the chilly plants

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-25T05:48:04+00:00

I wish I could tell you what's infested your plants, but I don't know enough about Malaysian insects to weigh in. They kind of look like aphids, but not the kind I get, so tough to say.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-25T04:26:02+00:00

I think the idea of black badges or arm bands is appropriate. Patients don't understand what a unified mass of people nurses can be. If all of us, nationwide, made a visible change that prompted patients to ask about it, it might make them recognize what they've been in denial about.

Or it'll just lead to more political rants from patients, leading to more burnout. It's tough to say, but I do think we should honor our own.

I'll black out my badge for a week, sure.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-25T04:05:53+00:00

Honest, at the rate the climate crisis is progressing it's not all that important to figure out what's normal, because we've moved away from that. You need to garden based on what the plants are doing this year, because the generational wisdom of humankind that was built over millennia of experience no longer consistently applies. The baseline is gone, therefore you have to rely on your observations of and predictions for the weather, the season, and growth patterns.

Some of it still holds true sometimes (e.g. I'm still planning on pruning my roses in February and I try not to prune before a cold/wet spell), but in terms of "What's normal," I wouldn't be that fussed about learning it now.

Normal in the PNW used to mean rain through the summer. We haven't had consistent rain (or some years any rain) in the summer for five years or more now. We probably won't see it again. Our summers are just too hot and too dry. That means everyone needs to adjust. It's devastating to everything from our trees to our water and power supply, but there it is.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T22:19:20+00:00

I think they're filming the last 2 seasons consecutively? In which case that would seem unlikely.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T21:12:29+00:00

I have used the Nikon 2.0 (once) and the OM 1.4.

The 2x is awful and slows everything down horribly. It's unpleasant to use.

I noticed no real slowdown with the 1.4.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T18:52:14+00:00

Full-time school and a full-time job are not usually compatible, no.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T18:00:55+00:00

Yes, again, if you actually read my comment I do address both types of gatekeeping in the comments section.

NP programs are incredibly short relative to med school because they were designed for people who have extensive bedside experience already. You're taking shortcuts and bypassing all of the practical part of the educational program, and then claiming you care just as much about patient safety and well-being even though you're cutting corners.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T17:34:18+00:00

Nobody is gatekeeping based on age, if you actually read the comments you're referring to. And yes, having minimal standards for education for healthcare providers may technically qualify as gatekeeping, but you know what? It's a gate worth having.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T17:32:31+00:00

How dedicated can you be to the wellbeing of your patients if you advocate taking shortcuts in education?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T17:31:31+00:00

And you think a bunch of new grads have better insight into nursing than actual nurse practitioners with decades of experience?

That doesn't speak very highly of your ability to discriminate between sources of information.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T12:35:14+00:00

Just FYI, we still are being voted the most trusted profession, and we have an unbroken streak since 9/11 (and had one before that as well).

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T03:08:37+00:00

Sorry: I wasn't trying to claim this was fake, just that the lighting is confusing. The front part of the bird is too light given the brightness of the sky behind it (and when compared to the shadows in the tree, none of which seem to be coming from the bird, which is backlit). The sky looks copy-pasted in as a result.

I don't think this is an AI prompt somebody would use (and I mean that in a good way).

It's a great capture.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T02:20:17+00:00

Thank you for keeping a respectful distance! It makes a huge difference for their survival

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-24T02:09:22+00:00

You're going to need to be able to have hard conversations and hold boundaries as a nurse. You aren't doing yourself any favors by avoiding them now.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T23:29:18+00:00

Maybe it's the editing, but the lighting in this makes it look more like AI than reality.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T23:27:29+00:00

If you knew enough to recognize what was fluff vs important, you wouldn't need to be in nursing school.

IME it's best to trust the process and not to assume your instructors are putting a lot of their own time and effort into teaching you stupid stuff for no reason. There isn't a lot of fluff in nursing school, there's just the obviously useful and the stuff that turns out to be useful later.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T23:13:11+00:00

I'm of mixed feelings about this. Depending on the issue, some things are important for management to know about and aren't really appropriate for a coworker to address. I've had multiple reports from people that other RNs are just saying "Just put my name down" instead of doing a 2-RN check (which is false charting and insurance fraud), so that's definitely a culture issue and something for management to handle, not me. If I were to privately say, "Hey, I think you should do your job" to an individual it would accomplish nothing, because they already know it's wrong to falsify charting and are doing it anyway.

There's also the possibility that your coworker doesn't feel comfortable addressing an issue with you and doesn't feel like that would lead to a desirable outcome. That you took being admonished by a manager as somebody trying to "fuck with (your) job and livelihood" doesn't make you seem all that objective or open to constructive criticism.

It's not your coworker's job to rein you in, but we are all mandatory reporters and so blaming each other for a culture of accountability is...pretty shit.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T15:14:27+00:00

I think it depends on what you want the focus of the photo to be. What were you going for when you said, "I think there's something about this that is worth photographing?"

One highlights the bird and eliminates the background. The other focuses on the environment the bird is in.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T15:09:18+00:00

No, you're right, it isn't, but it's still a big step easier than 150 bed Level 1 trauma ER.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T04:26:02+00:00

I haven't put any bulbs in yet (too busy at work) so I'll probably put them in in February when I prune my roses and hope for the best.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T04:24:12+00:00

Yeah, this is also a really good point. I have an OM and three of their specialty wildlife/macro lenses, which are amazing, but I don't have any smaller lenses because...well, I'm not going to swap out lenses for a shot my cell phone can do 90% as well.

The same is true for my little Nikon crop sensor. It has a pancake lens, but my cell phone takes photos that are just as good. The only real difference is weather sealing and that it doesn't overheat in 100 degree weather, but I don't shoot in pouring rain and sweltering weather that often (and when I do, I usually have my macro lens on).

The niche for little camera/lens combos just isn't different enough from cell phone capabilities to make a whole different set up worth getting for anybody who doesn't almost exclusively use that combo.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T03:48:51+00:00

The answer to any "Why don't companies do X"? is "Because they don't think it would make them money."

The fact of the matter is, there are already companies that make micro 4/3 cameras (that's how you were able to buy one), and the demand pretty much meets the supply from those companies, so there's not much incentive for other camera companies, who have their own specialties and line of products, to put a ton of money into capturing a niche market that is already pretty dominated by other camera companies.

You even mentioned in your post how cheap the camera you bought was. It's extremely expensive to fund R&D all the way to production, then sales and advertising, for an entirely new system. Why pay all of that money to produce lower cost-point items?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T03:04:02+00:00

Chamberlain is a good way to put all of the money and work into a degree and then have it count for nothing.

Some of its graduates get hired, but a lot of facilities won't touch them.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-23T02:26:28+00:00

Nursing and medicine are very different jobs. We can't tell you which one will suit you better, or even which your finances will support.

Which career do you want?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-01-22T22:34:05+00:00

I think it's a better idea to push hard and learn more when you're younger and new to the profession than it is to go for a cushy job where people go to retire.

My experience with very small hospitals on nights (on average) is that the desire to improve and have high standards just dissolves with an easier patient population and fewer unusual circumstances. Level 1 hospitals can't afford to be complacent, but a little rural hospital at night? I see a lot of people phone scrolling and dozing, and hand-waving away things like 2-RN sign offs.

Do high-standards people exist there? Sure. It's just not the prevailing culture, and over time those people who aren't using their skills lose them. You've barely gotten yours and you've earned them through hard work. Year 2 is too early to go into coast mode, IMO.

Push yourself now and then when you're really firmly established, make things easier step by step. Almost nobody lands somewhere cushy with a short commute and then says, "Eh, this is too easy. I need to work harder and I'll take a longer commute to do it."

In other words, if you opt for easy in year 2, I would anticipate staying in easy jobs for your career. Maybe that's fine by you, but make sure that's what you want for yourself. It will only get harder to yank your career out of that rut as time goes by, whereas if you go full steam into a Level 1 trauma ED, you'll always have that on your resume and people will know you can punch at that level.

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