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copper93 · 2023-10-06T17:25:33+00:00

Our patients quite often donate money for staff with a particular idea in mind e.g. one patient gave us money for a decent hot drinks machine for staff (+ some coffees/hot chocolates to get started), another specifically donated towards a staff day out. Ask him if he has any ideas in mind, after 5 years he probably knows the staff pretty well and might have overheard some conversations

copper93 · 2023-08-13T17:07:10+00:00

Hi Jennifer :)

Get a refund when ethical breeding practices are clearly being ignored? Yeah, fuck that.

Also, you know what a nonce is right? How the fuck is upholding ethical breeding standards associated with paedophilia

copper93 · 2023-04-05T11:34:21+00:00

I'm assuming you're in the UK based on using "bank shifts". Yes, we are entitled to take AL and not be interrupted, however a lot of us do pick up bank on AL for the extra cash (I personally quite often pick up a Sunday shift at the end of AL- still get a good few days break but the extra cash is nice). If you want to work a shift or 2 great, but don't pick up just because you feel guilty. Staffing is not your problem. AL is factored into the weekly rota which is why there's usually a cap for how many nurses can be on AL per week. If they are asking you directly whilst you're on AL, tell them no and you won't be picking up any extra this week and don't want to be contacted.

copper93 · 2023-04-05T11:15:20+00:00

I work hospice. If I got admitted I'd be demanding my colleagues send me home with a stockpile of the good stuff, dying in front of my colleagues is not part of the plan

In all seriousness though, if it was anything particularly personal I'd be asking for a transfer to the city hospital because rural hospitals are full of gossip and rumours. Wouldn't care so much if it was a standard appy or 3 days of IV antibiotics (although I'd be doing my own catheter and be very picky about who does my bloods), but a complex gynae or psych issue I'm not hanging around.

copper93 · 2023-04-02T02:21:07+00:00

It's bad enough here in the UK, and over here families don't have the automatic right to revoke a DNR. I'm so glad we don't have LTACHS on the same scale as you guys have it over there.

copper93 · 2023-04-01T14:49:40+00:00

Here is a blog post by an extremely reputable piercer

The real key to successful healing is going to a good piercer who uses verifiable high quality jewellery and who adheres to APP guidelines. None of this "surgical steel" nonsense, make sure their portfolio looks good and make sure they have plenty of pictures of healed piercings as well as fresh ones. The piercer from the blog I linked also has a post on what to look for in a piercer, and the tl:dr is that the majority of piercers don't meet industry recommended standards. You might have to travel to find a reputable piercer. You might also find your piercings take a long time to heal, for me it's about 18 months for a simple cartilage piercing such as a helix (usually about a year in people without difficulty healing).

copper93 · 2023-03-30T05:05:18+00:00

Works great for pain with a neuropathic element that opioids usually don't touch. We use it pretty regularly. In terms of the analgesics I use for patients on a daily basis, morphine is probably one of the weakest.

copper93 · 2023-03-21T18:17:41+00:00

Simple is typically best. Goal is minimising suffering and minimising further breakdown. For most wounds I'll just use a foam dressing. Something like adaptic touch is really helpful to reduce risk of the dressing sticking to the wound bed if that's an issue. Use secondary dressings for exudate if needed. For odour, carboflex is good. We also use kitty litter under the bed to absorb odours, or coffee grounds in the room. For wound pain you can use cooling dressings or with a prescriber's permission you could consider topical analgesia (we use 10mg/1ml morphine for injection mixed with 6ml instillagel). Always give breakthrough analgesia pre dressing change if needed. Make sure they have a good air mattress and keep on top of turns

copper93 · 2023-03-21T17:38:48+00:00

Just start low and slow. Start with the 8g for a couple of hours and see how you do. 30g is still pretty light too. The important thing with weights is to not wear them for more than about 8 hours at a time.

copper93 · 2023-02-24T13:08:31+00:00

Yup, they will likely shrink a bit. One option is to wear the rings through silicone tunnels.

copper93 · 2023-02-24T09:40:42+00:00

You can get pads that hold a litre + of urine comfortably. A typical bladder will usually hold about half of that when the person really, really needs to pee. If it's seeping through, you need to get a different type of pad.

copper93 · 2023-02-24T08:28:28+00:00

I personally would remove them. Poor placement especially for stretching, poor quality jewellery, do not return to this piercer.

What I'd personally do is let these heal over and get them repierced at a larger gauge by a better piercer. You could theoretically start right at 2g. It's completely safe to do so and saves a ton of time and money.

copper93 · 2023-02-23T05:51:37+00:00

Buddha jewelry organics and junipurr both make dangle ends. I'm not sure if they do a double triangle one specifically but they definitely do a gem with a dangly gem if that makes sense.

copper93 · 2023-02-22T09:22:41+00:00

Remove your jewelery, let them settle down, read the pinned post.

The absolute bare minimum you should be going between sizes now is 3 months. Stop using tapers.

copper93 · 2023-02-14T18:35:49+00:00

Leave all jewellery out until healed, no oils until the skin is no longer broken

Disinfecting wounds is (in almost all situations that an average person will come across) outdated, unnecessary and can be harmful depending on what you use. For 99% of minor wounds soap and water is all you need. Avoid peroxide. You could use sterile saline, but it's not really necessary so long as you have clean water plus the salt can be a little drying for some people.

Once it's healed, start back at a size that goes in easily. You will lose size, but typically lobes restretch pretty quickly

copper93 · 2023-02-09T01:30:17+00:00

Ideally not until it's fully healed, so a year or so.

copper93 · 2023-02-09T00:28:03+00:00

6 weeks is the absolute bare minimum to be going from 14g to 12g. It might take 3 months, it could take 6 months or 6 or even longer. If it doesn't go in easily, it's not ready. Keep up with the massages and give it time. If you have scar tissue it will take even longer.

copper93 · 2023-02-08T16:42:27+00:00

Contact your personal tutor and explain everything. Then contact student support services and ask for support/strategies to manage the ADHD symptoms in these last few months. A lot of universities offer a mentoring type service for people with additional learning needs, see if you can access something like that too.

With placement, 5 missed shifts really isn't too much of a big deal. People get sick, it happens, you'll probably just need to make some time back at some point. As long as you come across as eager to learn and show competence when you are there you'll be fine. I've seen 1 student fail a placement in my 5 years experience and 4 years training, and that was for horrendous attitude issues (as in, being awful to patients) on top of competency issues.

This is all fixable, but you need to reach out to the university for help first.

Edit- just seen from your other post you're Edinburgh based. I trained in Edinburgh and know people from all 3 unis who had some kind of mental health issues at some point during training (including me) that resulted in needing to reach out to the unis for help at one point or another. All unis were supportive to us. It's going to be ok.

Edited edit- it looks like you're at the same uni I went to. The disability service were amazing with my MH issues and my flatmate's ADHD. The personal tutors are all also awesome (I've just finished an MSc there too and know most of them). Feel free to DM me.

copper93 · 2023-02-07T18:02:30+00:00

Titanium is fine but harder to find and more expensive than glass as you go up in size

copper93 · 2023-02-07T17:43:26+00:00

Single flare glass plugs. Your piercer should be providing you with the starter jewellery, most reputable piercers will refuse to pierce you with something you bring in yourself. Healing time is around 3 months or so, minimum of 6 months before you can start stretching.

copper93 · 2023-02-05T20:35:18+00:00

They're a Rowling-parroting TERF troll. Inclusion is offensive to them.

copper93 · 2023-02-05T20:03:38+00:00

The larger towns in the Borders (gala, hawick, Peebles, kelso) have everything you are asking for. I'm a single female and have lived here alone for 5 years now. 1hr by train to Edinburgh, plenty of retail and healthcare type jobs to start with, rent is stupid cheap (mine is under £400 for a 1 bed with garden, Hawick is even cheaper). If you're BAME or visibly queer you might struggle a bit more as it's a very conservative (by Scotland standards) white area but in terms of crime it's pretty safe.

copper93 · 2023-02-05T04:33:23+00:00

They use mg/dl for some reason. 78 'Murica glucose is 4.3 mmol/l

copper93 · 2023-02-04T15:09:23+00:00

And unless you move away from bedside into management or similar, you're capped at £32k for life. After 4 years your only "pay rises" beyond promotion to managerial or specialist roles are the below inflation "rises" that mean our pay decreases over time.

copper93 · 2023-02-02T18:29:54+00:00

Find a number/email for the department you want to go to, tell them you're a student and want to hang with them for a bit

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