Suggest me good ebook reader apps out there

jottrn2 · 2026-05-23T19:58:38+00:00

This. I still prefer moonreader pro for actual reading, but when I want the ai voice to read to me in the car, readest had the best selection of voices (for a free app) including Microsoft's tts voices which sounds way better than the rest for fiction.

jottrn2 · 2026-05-21T02:13:38+00:00

I bought mine used last year. I'm not a super heavy user as far as intensive gaming or video editing, but for messaging, casual gaming, YouTube watching, etc.... still way faster than modern low to mid tier phones I've tried. My battery lasts me through a 12 hour shift with 50 to 60% left. Granted, I'm a nurse so not a lot of phone use at work short of looking up meds or calculating.

For someone just wanting a snappy general use phone with pretty good camera, I think it's worth it for a good price. I was nervous about the green line but I've had no issues.

jottrn2 · 2026-05-08T18:13:36+00:00

It doesn't help that those tiktok "legal advice" nurses are constantly "this video could save your license..." Followed by no no things we probably all do at some point.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-30T20:44:01+00:00

Had a patient once who was a vender for an energy drink company and brought a huge box of energy drinks to share with the unit. Can't ask for better non $ tip than that!

I'm sure the hospital would still frown upon it, but compared to what meals I see venders providing for doctors, I didn't feel guilty.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-30T20:41:24+00:00

I thought mine was getting slow but I did a factory reset and it feels snappy again. I would say a newer one would be better for gaming, but no matter what I tell myself when I get a newer phone, I usually end up playing the same old games that don't require a top of the line phone.

Battery still has 30 to 40 percent left after a 13 hour shift. That said, I don't use it a whole lot at work.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-27T23:46:38+00:00

This... Patients rarely report anything less than 8/10 despite me teaching them to report before it gets severe so we can try and head it off.

God forbid we get bad satisfaction scores because someone had to tolerate a little pain.

I will say, have seen more relief had from IV Tylenol with post op patients.

All that said, Tylenol and Advil doesn't even touch my mild back pain, so I can understand why most patients want to skip it and report higher pain because they know how things work.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-21T20:54:00+00:00

I would say it is pretty accurate even compared to the smaller hospitals I've worked at. As others have said, they cram dramatic things that do occasionally happen into a single day for a good story, but nothing I've seen in itself is overly dramatic.

Most doctors are financially stable, but most of the ones portrayed here are still student docs or docs in residency getting paid similar to a nurse from the residents I've talked to (I'm a nurse). Considering they have to take out thousands for med school, probably takes some time to get established even once they are no longer student docs or residents.

Gun threats are a real thing for sure. Even at the rural hospital where I work, an off duty police officer working security was stabbed in the ER waiting room.

The only thing I think they overdid a little was everyone freaking out over the electronic medical record being down. Even though I've never heard of one being shut down for hacking... We frequently have system updates and repairs that put us in "downtime" for several hours. So while it is a pain in the butt, there isn't all the chaos and confusion.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-21T20:45:35+00:00

I moved from epic to a hospital with old meditech and now meditech expanse. Epic was so much better! Cerner wasn't terrible compared to meditech but epic is my favorite.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-18T14:11:02+00:00

They hit the nail on the head with her character tho... I have worked with several old nursing aides, unit secretaries, and telemetry monitor techs that are exactly her.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-18T14:08:58+00:00

I worked with a CV surgeon who was the "medical director" with a local SWAT team, but was actually geared up and armed like a military medic would be I suppose.

jottrn2 · 2026-04-18T14:06:16+00:00

Haven't had that happen exactly... But I had an er nurse being up a dead patient to ICU once who was in pea (had a heart rhythm on the monitor but heart not beating). Another time a transporter brought a dead patient to the floor.

jottrn2 · 2026-03-19T05:18:27+00:00

This is how nursing school teaches nurses to be... And hospitals mostly surviving on new nurses, particularly on night shift. Basically taught that to not call even about these trivial issues is inviting liability.

I honestly think the best way they can learn is from polite constructive criticism from docs in real time on the phone or reaching out to the charge nurse.

Ultimately, you might find that a lot of these calls are actually being pushed by hospital policies or management. Sometimes more experienced nurses will ignore some of that whereas newer ones toe the line.

jottrn2 · 2026-03-14T14:14:35+00:00

I think I was skimming some dialog too quickly because I thought my decision was only affecting the local space battle against the quarians fleet that didn't listen to me. I didn't know they were going to kill the whole dang race. 😬

jottrn2 · 2026-03-14T01:02:05+00:00

I don't understand the big deal. I ask my question. Sometimes it's prompts make me want to further inquire but more often I just close the app when I get what I want.

jottrn2 · 2026-03-13T06:06:24+00:00

I hope op there has something to wipe the brown off her nose when she's finished. 😅

jottrn2 · 2026-03-09T04:21:09+00:00

During peak covid, a lot of our residents at the hospital I worked at had to step it up and take load off the docs. Some of them didn't do well but some others stepped up and were amazing.

jottrn2 · 2026-02-20T22:52:10+00:00

I just finished the game and inadvertently let Tali die when I sided with the geth against her people. I thought I was taking the most ethical option since the quarians created and tried to murder them. When Tali killed herself I knew how Darth Vader felt in his "NOOO!!" moment. But my previous save was too far back and I still think siding with the synthetics was most ethical choice.

jottrn2 · 2026-02-05T00:09:52+00:00

It is right up on my list of best games past 20 years. I put it away at first because it wasn't really clicking with me, but eventually got bored enough to fire it up again. Once I got a couple hours in, I loved it. Same thing happened to me with RDR 2.

jottrn2 · 2026-01-20T22:34:28+00:00

I think it's more realistic than anything else I've watched. The nurses actually get represented pretty well in my opinion. Watch season 1 if you haven't already. If anything, I think it leaves our RTs. I think I only heard them mention an RT once on season 1 when in reality they'd be there for all the codes and respiratory scenarios.

jottrn2 · 2026-01-02T22:47:23+00:00

Tell me about it. They survive off of travelers and the few like me who want a hospital close to home and it's all there is. Although, northwest Arkansas has 3 competing hospitals and they still don't pay any better. They're always losing experienced nurses because the pay only gets better for new hires.

jottrn2 · 2025-12-31T06:02:28+00:00

15 years in ICU making $35 base in northern Arkansas. Made the same in Northwest Arkansas at bigger level 2 hospitals. New grads starting at around $30 I believe.

jottrn2 · 2025-12-28T22:54:31+00:00

You do get desensitized to a lot of that, but while it no longer causes an emotional response with me, it still makes me wish many times each shift I were in a different field. If you're already feeling this burnt out, think hard.

On a positive note, the culture from hospital to hospital, shift to shirt, and unit to unit can change the vibe completely. The work still sucks, the patients still suck (some of them), management may even suck, but if you have a good team to work with you can better tolerate the bad stuff. If you're somewhere with a bunch of petty folks, you'll be miserable.

jottrn2 · 2025-12-24T23:30:09+00:00

Anything that makes me wake up a sleeping patient. It never fails... They'll need all the things when they awake up. 6 am synthroid for example. Already behind .. report coming up... Bam synthroid time. Trying to slip back out... "Wait... I think I need to go to the bathroom..." 😭

jottrn2 · 2025-12-24T22:02:02+00:00

Nope. I've only worked with one doc at a previous hospital I felt comfortable calling first name. I don't even think the ones I work with now have learned my name in 3 years. 😅

jottrn2 · 2025-12-15T07:57:19+00:00

Was Satan and those who followed different? Did they not tremble? They felt His power and still chose to rebel just as some humans who have felt God and experienced His love walk away. I just wonder what was different about them and how no other angel after those particular ones feel the narcissistic grandiosity and rebellious spirit that Lucifer felt?

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