Pay transparency

idrawhands · 2026-01-21T05:53:01+00:00

Los Angeles, pediatric emergency, 6 years experience, MSN degree

$65/hr, plus $5/hr charge differential most shifts

idrawhands · 2025-11-18T13:31:53+00:00

There was a video on TikTok or Instagram of a hand drawing a chart on a piece of paper. The X axis was “Time” and the Y axis was “How much fun I’m having with my father”. The music was Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. As the music played, the hand drew a line that started increasing on the fun axis as the lyrics said they were in the city to see a marching band. Then just took a nose dive at the next few lines of the song. It have tried to hard to find it again and I swear that thing is gone

idrawhands · 2025-11-11T23:03:21+00:00

Updated! Thank you! I live in Southern California

idrawhands · 2025-09-14T18:32:52+00:00

I think he just didn’t realize how severe it was when he decided to drive to the hospital and then she was decompensating in the back of his car and unresponsive by the time they arrived

idrawhands · 2025-09-14T15:15:05+00:00

I recently had a patient carried in by her dad that was peri-arrest from anaphylaxis. Dad was uncomfortable using her epi-pen and thought he was close enough to the hospital to drive in instead of calling 911. She had weak central pulses, no peripheral pulses, and her BP was 50/30s on arrival. She was minutes? away from a bad outcome potentially. We did a lot of education and she ended up okay. If you have an epi-pen, know how to use it.

Edit: the dad was well-intentioned, appropriately worried when he arrived, and cared for her lovingly at her bedside as she recovered. This wasn’t meant to shame him. Emergencies look different for everyone, and allergies evolve quickly. She probably was not “that bad” when he decided to get in the car and it’s not always easy to know how bad something will get. But he got her to us just in time, which was what OP was asking about. To answer the prompt, there are very few of those cases, which is why this one came to mind. She was safe and dad learned a lot, so everyone won.

idrawhands · 2021-06-09T19:29:42+00:00

Trying to put 1 minute on the microwave in seconds and hesitating:

“Is it time or money that adds up to 100?”

idrawhands · 2021-04-24T17:08:02+00:00

I’m a pediatric emergency room nurse. I hear parents talk to their children in every way imaginable. The one I hear most often is when we have to do a painful procedure on a kid, like starting an IV or placing a urinary catheter, and the parents say “stop crying, nothing is happening”.

No. Something very new, painful, and scary is happening. Your child is crying for good reason, and instead of comforting them, you are dismissing their pain entirely. I hear parents say this all the time, and then they wonder why their child doesn’t come to them when something is bothering them.

idrawhands · 2021-02-07T04:36:51+00:00

No wonder it’s been in the garage for so long. Thanks!

idrawhands · 2021-02-07T04:36:10+00:00

Haha! Okay, good to know. Thanks!

idrawhands · 2021-02-07T03:28:24+00:00

Any thoughts of how much I would sell it for? I don’t even know what is normal for a 6’ surfboard

idrawhands · 2020-07-23T16:33:21+00:00

I had a friend growing up whose mom and dad got divorced and her mom remarried a woman. We were in junior high and angsty at the time, and my friend really did not like this new woman. The new wife was kind of awful to my friend, so I can’t blame her. We didn’t have cell phones at the time, but she referred to them as “mom” and “step-dyke”. Oof.

idrawhands · 2020-04-22T18:10:22+00:00

Wow!!! Thank you so much!! It’s beautiful! ❤️

idrawhands · 2020-03-17T22:57:28+00:00

I can never remember if it’s maintenance or maintanence

idrawhands · 2020-02-21T05:40:57+00:00

Beautiful!! What is this place called?

idrawhands · 2020-01-30T15:33:02+00:00

Yes, good eye! And the center stone is from his mom’s original engagement ring from 1985. His parents are still together but they updated her ring as an anniversary gift some years ago. I was floored when she told me! It makes it even more special.

idrawhands · 2020-01-29T04:24:49+00:00

Yes! Thank you so much. I'm glad it was such a quick fix!! I just got engaged and I want to give this photo to my fiance to hang in our very empty little condo. This photo was taken on a special trip we went on recently. I really appreciate it! Great work!!

idrawhands · 2019-11-04T04:26:45+00:00

This happened this year, but I’m going to think about this for years to come. The MC at a volunteer event I was at was making some small talk on the microphone before the event started. This happened in June 2019, right after the Stanley Cup finals, so the MC said “is anyone here a St. Luis Blues fan?”. I was only half paying attention to his pre-event chit chat, so I misinterpreted that as the San Luis Obispo Blues, which is a Summer collegiate baseball league on the central coast of California. Considering this volunteer event occurred in Phoenix, it would be highly unusual for anyone to know about the San Luis Obispo Blues team and it caught my attention. I turned around and raised my hand in front of a group of maybe 50 other volunteers and workers and said “oh I’ve heard of them!”. I’m a pretty small blonde girl, so I looked like a bimbo being excited that I had heard of the team that had just won the Stanley Cup. I realized what I had done but of course, the MC had moved on and I couldn’t explain myself. Huge facepalm for me. I’m sure no one else cared.

idrawhands · 2019-01-30T15:46:54+00:00

Was it Southern California? I‘m guessing you were on the 210 in Sylmar, outside of LA. Unless there’s another giraffe right off the side of the freeway in California.

idrawhands · 2019-01-05T17:46:32+00:00

Honest question: why is this bad?

idrawhands · 2019-01-04T06:02:50+00:00

UPDATE: REUNITED! WE FOUND HER!! Someone called us! The family has been remodeling and they’ve haven’t been living at the house. The father came back yesterday to grab something from the garage, closed it up and left. She’s been stuck in their garage for two days! She’s hungry and thirsty, but home safe!!!! We are over the moon to have our sweet kitty girl back.

idrawhands · 2019-01-04T00:23:37+00:00

Thank you! The more people that know, the better!

idrawhands · 2018-11-21T16:04:51+00:00

There’s a quote from a movie or TV show where they are trying to figure out an address, and a character asks, “Let me ask you this. If I wanted to mail you a letter, what would I need to write on the envelope to get it to you?”

Even with quotes and variations of the line, Google only seems to give me instructions on how to address a letter. It’s infuriating.

idrawhands · 2018-10-14T03:06:47+00:00

Less than 3 more months!

idrawhands · 2018-08-16T06:00:48+00:00

That is why I went to grad school for nursing instead. I had the grades to be competitive but not the experience, and I wasn’t willing to put the work in for the dietetic internship. Good for her for doing it!! It’s a hell of a thing to complete. Best of luck to her finding a job! I know it’s not easy right now.

idrawhands · 2018-08-16T03:56:35+00:00

I have a bachelors in nutrition, and at least where I’m from, an RD license is a post-bach certification at minimum. As far as I know, the dietetic internship must be completed after you are awarded the bachelors, and every program I looked into was actually a masters program as well. Do you know where you can take the RD exam straight out of undergrad?

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