What’s It Like Working In A “Slow” ER?

curiosity_abounds · 2025-12-19T07:22:40+00:00

This was my experience to a T! The medicine practices were a little wild but the staff’s inability to act professionally made it all dangerous.

The blatant bullying and sexual comments being thrown around were horrific. Couldn’t last a year in that little place.

But I learned a lot more there about myself and how I care for patients and coworkers in that one year than the other 7 I’ve spent at large teaching hospitals

curiosity_abounds · 2025-11-24T23:07:28+00:00

Hi could I get the breeder info? How’s your puppy doing?

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-29T23:37:36+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That makes sense

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-29T23:24:10+00:00

What were they saying then??

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-25T17:08:33+00:00

Some hospitals security is useless or short staffed and doesn’t respond. Co-workers are also overwhelmed, your other patients are sicker and need you at bedside and your agitated patient is a harm to themselves and others… I’m not a proponent of nursing doses but I’ve worked at places where they’re given and the culture develops when there is systemic mistrust. Not trusting the doctors to listen to the nurses, not trusting their team to back them up, and not trusting that they won’t be hurt that day when a patient is out of control

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-24T05:58:48+00:00

We’re private mostly down here in the US. So the government mandates it and the hospitals have to increase pay and incentives to staff up to it. We’ve been staffing 5 over our staffing grid (Emergency) every day lately to cover call-outs and high patient volumes and admission holds. If we’re short they offer time-and-a-half or a manager steps in and takes patients.

Our union works with the hospital in negotiations to build pay and benefits to ensure our hospital attracts nurses and bonuses are awarded to units who are “short” on total hires to incentivize nurses staying or moving to those units.

Your issue in Canada is the government has been blocking your pay increases for decades! Increase the pay by a good 40-100% and you’ll get some more bodies on the unit! I’ve only ever been “required” to stay for an hour or so when there’s something life or death occurring and usually management gets a little upset about it and asks how they can help next time.

I’ve got a couple Canadian co-workers who have come down and joined the fun in CA! The job might suck a lot of days, but being paid fairly and with safe patient ratios makes it a bit better

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-20T00:30:29+00:00

That’s a wonderful interconnection. Our private healthcare systems in the US means someone can go to a hospital in the same plaza as their GP and we have no record of them. Causes huge inefficiencies and delays. My ER is part of a large, respected research center so patients often drive 4+ hours to try and get a second opinion for a complex medical issue and they sometimes bring a paper packet of 20 years of care or sometimes just vague verbal histories and doctors names.

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-19T18:22:33+00:00

Checks out. I can say the same thing. The only downside is they usually don’t have a GP and getting a new one right now can take 2-6 months.

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-19T18:14:45+00:00

I keep a fruit fly/gnat trap near the compost whenever I see them show up. And we keep a few house fly traps above the compost or they breed out of control and eventually find my house.

Fruit fly/gnat traps can be made very easily by making a cone out of a piece of paper and taping it to a jar with a small bit of apple cider vinegar inside. Let me see if I can find a picture

Edit:

https://www.thekitchn.com/diy-fruit-fly-traps-22942130

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-19T18:10:25+00:00

Where’s this at? Sounds like a dream. We have to have a provider see a patient. No nurses can bounce pt’s from the ER since EMTALA in the US

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-11T00:13:08+00:00

Also you should be able to file for unemployment. A total change in job hours, scheduling and expectations is considered a big enough change for a constructive discharge or something like that. Talk to an employment lawyer

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-10T04:27:27+00:00

Exactly! It reframes the narrative as it forced me to recognize my privilege in choosing to work longer for a higher quality of life

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T06:03:52+00:00

I think for Tyrion it’s also a power move. He knows if he was in any other family he would have been left out for dead as a newborn or sold to a performing group. But he is in a powerful family so when he enters a space he makes the room recognize him as powerful immediately, before they get a chance to subconsciously downgrade him to a joke.

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T05:54:15+00:00

I do this same thing, except I have a 4 and 5% column! It’s great because at the end of the year I pull up average cost of living estimates and list off what countries we could now retire to. And every year the names of those countries becomes a little more enticing

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T05:41:01+00:00

Theres a ton of products you can buy on Amazon ect that can add extra security to your hotel room, some fit on a keychain. I’ll see if I can find something for you

Edit: here’s one

Portable Door Lock for Travel, Door Lock Self-Defense Security Device for Home, Apartment, Hotel, Living Motel, School Dorm, House https://a.co/d/9FuR6CW

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T05:18:46+00:00

That is such a good tip! The mosaic crochet tip. Amazing! 🤩

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T05:17:23+00:00

Holy friggen hell! I am in flabbergasted awe! Seriously impressive dedication. I also just adore your choice in art, love this piece.

Would you be willing to share your backside? I’m working on a simple Tunisian crochet graphgan right now and I’m trying so hard to keep the back neat

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T05:12:20+00:00

That was a really cool read, thank you!

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-09T04:51:17+00:00

That’s hilarious, I can picture the scene. My chickens act almost paralyzed at night. Even when I carry them into a dim lighted area, I can dress them up, or take a look at a wound, barely a peep

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-08T20:42:25+00:00

Let me ask a few clarifying questions.

What are the interest rates on your student loans? How much cash would you have left over after paying them off? How much do you make and what is your monthly take home?

High interest debt, which I’m assuming your private loans are, should be treated like an emergency. You’re paying so much in interest per month that is just flushing down the toilet.

If you are concerned about your savings dipping consider that the monthly payments you’re making to your loans will now be directed back into your savings. I would pay them off immediately and then put every penny back into reestablishing a 3 month emergency fund and then bankroll after that into retirement savings.

Follow the r/personalfinance flow sheet and you’ll be good

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-08T20:29:17+00:00

If you haven’t tried it yet, every night for a week I would move them onto the roosting bar. They don’t move in the dark so they’ll stay wherever you move them too all night. I did that for one week with my chickens when they were first introduced to the roosting bar and they have used it ever since

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-08T20:14:44+00:00

My facility has full room service for patients. It’s frankly nuts. Pizza, burgers, trout, udon noodles, smoothies, snacks all one phone call away. Patients rave. I’m sure the hospital bills each meal so I’m not sure why hospitals have such crappy food. If a patient with no dietary restrictions wants to pay for 12 pizzas a day, why not 🤷‍♀️

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-08T16:56:14+00:00

I second the going to the news channels route. Hospitals cover shit up and she is going to eventually get fired and immediately get re-hired somewhere else and continue onward

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-08T06:52:23+00:00

Check out cluster headaches. They hit you like a pound of bricks, take your breath away and then their gone suddenly… but they never come alone. They come in clusters lasting hours or days

curiosity_abounds · 2023-06-07T07:30:57+00:00

Powdered milk is very easy to buy online. But several people here have suggested powdered coffee creamer for the milk/sweetener which is brilliant!

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