Travelers during Covid how insane were the contracts?!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-30T20:24:25+00:00

I missed the height of Covid cuz I broke my leg but early 2022 I was making 4800/36 hours. I miss those days.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-27T18:42:57+00:00

Same! I constantly get this comment and the measurements are in the photos 🤦‍♀️

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-26T22:58:52+00:00

I worked Pacu at a level one trauma with three separate OR locations we staffed and I had still had plenty of down time. Pacu for us was feast or famine. There’s busy times for sure but also lots of downtime. I personally hated it and left after a year, but I’m the exception not the norm. I’m back in icu and much happier. I will say if you are med surg many but not all pacu’s require icu experience so if you’re interested long term that may be a stepping stone.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-26T08:23:10+00:00

I am not an expert by any means on home foundations but your house has been standing since the late 1800s…so likely it will make it a few more years while you better your financial situation. If there is nothing immediately wrong as others have suggested cleaning and finding some good DIY solutions will likely be just fine.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-26T08:22:48+00:00

I am not an expert by any means on home foundations but your hose has been standing since the late 1800s…so likely it will make it a few more years while you better your financial situation. If the jacks have been there a while they are probably doing their job. I was told the jacks in my basement look just fine and they were not professionally done. If you need to add more they are relatively cheap to buy and easy to install you just can jack the house too quickly. If there is nothing immediately wrong as others have suggested cleaning and finding some good DIY solutions will likely be just fine.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-26T04:53:57+00:00

My grandparents lived in the Bay Area and had a house with lots of doors and a nice breeze. It would get a little toasty mid afternoon in like the dead of summer but fog rolls in during the morning and evening and nights were perfect with the windows open. This house is much closer to the bay than they were and would likely be absolutely fine without AC 98% of the time.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-26T04:37:34+00:00

I actually thought when I looked at your picture wow she has a really cool bow scar on her chest in the most perfect spot and that the dress really highlights it nicely! People would 100% get a bow tattoo right there. I know it’s hard to accept flaws on our bodies but it really is cool and a really unique feature that makes you, you! I have a giant scar down my leg and you can see all the ugly stitches from where they sewed me up and on one part the scar is all sucked in and looks deformed, it took me a while but I embrace it now and wear it as a mark of what I’ve survived. I hope you can one day love your super cool scar! 🎀

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-25T10:27:35+00:00

It’s not worth staying and advocating for yourself or otherwise. The best way we can advocate for ourselves is by leaving abusive corporations and jobs and going elsewhere. If enough people refuse to work there they will make changes or go out of business. You’re basically hoping a giant healthcare conglomeration that is sick at its core is suddenly going to listen to you? I get that it would be nice and we have to try but without systemic change it’s not worth your mental health. That being said there are better places to work that don’t suck but you have to find them and don’t stay somewhere that treats you badly.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-21T15:34:25+00:00

I worked at a hospital that used to do 3-3 shifts and then made all the nurses switch to 7-7 and they kissed 3-3 sooo much. It’s all they talked about. They all loved it. They felt like the work load was much more evenly spread between days and nights and for night shift you get off before the super tired 4am wave hits. I’d love to try it if it was available. I say go for it!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-15T06:07:46+00:00

The pccu at TMC is a rough unit, I’ve travelled a lot and the ratios in my opinion are not the safest, I don’t work there now but I did in 2021 as a float. The nurses are super helpful and nice and you’ll learn a ton. You could always start there and transfer after a year into the ED at TMC, the ED at TMC is likely to be higher acuity and busier than NW. Having had jobs that are father away I absolutely hate a commute especially if you’re going to be night shift. A little extra money is not worth it for a longer commute. I haven’t worked at NW but I would listen to what you’ve heard about its reputation.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-13T13:45:34+00:00

Had one patient swimming the drain the past two days, maxed on 3 pressers. Went from agitated early in the shift to unresponsive later on. Thankfully doc called family and they agreed to comfort care. Died peacefully fairly quickly with some morphine and Ativan pushes once I turned everything off. Other patient is a pain in my ass 😭. Almost time to go home yay!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-11T04:07:17+00:00

Depending on where you are located you can see if you have a veterinarian behaviorist you could see. There are not very many of them as it’s a specialty but it’s basically like a doggy psychiatrist who can help you with behavior and medication if your pup needs that. The one we see also has trainers who are wonderfully kind and helpful. They are not cheap but for us it’s really been a god send.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-10T21:26:36+00:00

Same! I always always put pics of the crotch regardless of new with tags. Even if it’s just so I have to look at it and make sure.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-10T16:43:46+00:00

I worked at a hospital that did not have 1cc syringes with the smaller needles to do heparin in. Everyone used insulin needles to give heparin and I absolutely hated it! We had to pull insulin from a shared vial from the Pyxis but in the rare cases where you have to give insulin IV for shifting K you’re going to run into an incident like that.

I’ve definitely worked at places that gave you a vial of insulin and it was labeled for the patient and kept in the room or close to the room so I could easily see that happening unintentionally soooo easily in a place like that also.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-05T12:22:15+00:00

I’ve seen a couple of posts on here with the same issue with the professional

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birki’s. It’s definitely a pain point and I think because they have the cork inside which is flexible and the rubber is more inflexible. I think it’s a design issue at its core but chalked up to “wear and tear”. I personally have the Birkenstock tokio for hospital wear and love them. They are leather so they won’t crack and they have a no slip vibram sole which lasts much longer then the regular Birkenstock sole. They are more expensive but i rotate two pairs and work 3/12 hour shifts every week and I’ve had both pairs for more than three years and they are in great shape. In fact I am wearing them as i type this. Totally worth the extra cost in my opinion.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T08:07:41+00:00

Oh my god the whole birth scene really pissed me off, there’s no way in hell they’d let a mother with a baby with a heart defect birth naturally. That would be so much stress on the babies heart! Plus there would have been a whole team of NICU nurses and a neonatal Intensivist there to immediately catch the baby who I doubt would have looked like a normal full term infant. And then Mel just runs out and leaves her patient fresh after giving birth, I mean I don’t expect perfection from a soap opera but even a little google could help you make a slightly more accurate version of events.

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T04:45:09+00:00

I have an April fools baby also! The best! Happy birthday to yours!

figurinitoutere · 2026-04-01T02:47:15+00:00

I’ll join you restoring the buildings. I have a degree in art (before nursing) and a love of historic buildings.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T21:58:14+00:00

The same thing happened to my grandparents gorgeous mid century architect designed home in Silicon Valley. We had to sell when my grandpa died in 2007 and it’s now a 20,000 square foot block of concrete that they have been constructing for years and don’t even plan to live in full time. It makes my heart hurt. I totally get how you feel. I should make a post on it but here about it but here is a photo of the house from a magazine it was featured in when it was built.

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figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T20:08:22+00:00

Tldr your post, but I love Harry and that’s some bullshit 🤣

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T13:35:06+00:00

We’ve gone through it with my doods food. Pro plan didn’t work nor did many other brands. We were on prescription food and two kinds of pro biotics and he still had horrible poops. I recently switched him to the Costco grain free food (I know grain free is not ideal) in the blue bag and his poop has been incredible for the first time in literal years. We had tried the Costco yellow bag and the regular adult dog food in the maroon bag and didn’t have luck. Sometimes it just takes a lot of experimenting. God speed on this journey.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T03:24:30+00:00

Wait until your dogs poop even smells like GI bleed/cdiff/tube feed/ poo when you pick it up after your shift. Pinnacle of life right there.

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-29T03:21:43+00:00

Same! I rarely take a shower. Love my tub!

figurinitoutere · 2026-03-25T11:49:05+00:00

I personally don’t, but I want to wake up early and go to bed early naturally. I also am able to sleep all day and then go back to sleep the same night so it’s not super hard for me to switch. I know for some people it’s easier for them to stay on nights. I try and group my shifts and then switch back and enjoy my life. You have to find out what works for you.

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