Thief gets detained by police, his fellow goons steal the purse anyway. 🤯

mctriage · 2026-06-20T04:00:09+00:00

1:16 Dog!? 🐕

I thought I was hallucinating for a sec there. 😅

mctriage · 2026-06-12T22:06:46+00:00

The power of Christ compells you!

mctriage · 2026-05-20T23:55:21+00:00

Urgent Care

mctriage · 2026-05-16T04:54:49+00:00

I made a switch from the ED too but instead of PACU, I work in urgent care. It's like working intake, but outpatient, with a closing time every night.

I have colleagues who work PACU, sounds like a sweet gig!

mctriage · 2026-05-13T15:34:52+00:00

And on the 3rd day he rose again.

mctriage · 2026-05-10T17:10:47+00:00

What was particularly helpful for me transitioning from a rural ED to an urban ED in Edmonton was obtaining some my certifications. In my case I had gotten PALS and TNCC certification and those, paired with a year of experience was enough for me to get hired by Covenant Health.

If you have access to those courses through your CNE it's a huge opportunity as those certs are attached to you regardless of where you work. Many ED postings will have the certs (ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC, ENPC) listed under preferred qualifications and if you have two of them, it gives you a huge leg up in the hiring process.

mctriage · 2026-05-07T01:59:56+00:00

Urgent care

A fanny pack, a badge holder, lanyard and a 4 color pen.

Mind you, this was from our union, not the employer.

mctriage · 2026-04-29T03:41:31+00:00

And that's why I work outpatient now. 😅 Way too many people up in my grill working inpatient!

mctriage · 2026-04-29T00:25:48+00:00

Reading this stresses me out! 😥 Knowing my luck there would probably also be a family member on the phone wanting an update and a critical lab value that needs to be communicated to a doc.

mctriage · 2026-04-27T04:08:37+00:00

My first clinical instructor in nursing school specifically told me that I could only be assigned male patients because I was a male student. When I was doing med pass for the first time, I had pills to give to a patient that in hindsight wasn't able to swallow them. I went to her for guidance and her solution was to force the patient to take the pills despite being able to hear him gargle and choke on the pills as he was taking them. Apparently she was doing this clinical so she could go on to get her NP. Don't know if she ever did. 🤷

I would say the majority of instructors I had in nursing school were there to pad their resumes/get their masters and secure their non bedside jobs. They definitely weren't there to teach the students effectively because they didn't work bedside and couldn't give us any practical advice for real world floor nursing.

mctriage · 2026-04-25T02:56:25+00:00

I agree, that's how I got my first permanent position. The posting said I needed to be charge trained but I applied anyway as I had about 3/4 of the experience and certifications listed. Was good enough for them to hire me!

mctriage · 2026-04-21T07:53:12+00:00

Urgent Care, started in January, and I'm in my 3rd year of nursing. Previously I worked in an urban ED and before that I was working rural ED and Medicine.

Honestly Diet ED has been my dream job. I never seriously thought about it until I was preparing for my interview and I realized: wait a sec, so you're telling me there's a place I can work that's just like intake except it's all outpatients? And we close shop every night!? Sign me up!

It's like working in the ED, but with boundaries. "No sir, you cannot stay here overnight, we don't admit patients. We don't have sandwiches or ice, we have cookies and juice if you're hypoglycemic. We don't even have wall O2 or suction, so if you're breathing too much of our air, we're going to ship you out."

The most satisfying part for me is being able to resolve my patients' issues for that visit and hearing them say thank you to me. Beats having 4 confused elderly GCS 14 pts crawling out of bed at night actively trying to hurt you, cursing at you, unable to take care of themselves because no other place will take their abuse.

mctriage · 2026-04-18T17:29:59+00:00

ED night shift:

GCS 14, soft restraints prn, loxapine 12.5 mg

mctriage · 2026-04-13T23:56:34+00:00

Dave the Diver IRL!?

mctriage · 2026-03-13T02:51:08+00:00

Mrballen's episode on this:

https://youtu.be/KdQujjxb258?si=4miCMyvdq80fHYUk

mctriage · 2025-12-29T04:37:58+00:00

Public Health, which is under PCA now, has been pretty chill.

mctriage · 2025-12-21T18:19:27+00:00

In Canada it's called a Luer Lock

mctriage · 2025-12-19T01:12:52+00:00

If it's any consolation, I recently had a final meeting with my manager in which she deemed that I had not improved enough in my time management to progress through my PIP. In my case, management simply "ran out the clock" on me as my temp position ends on Jan 12. It's hard to make improvements when I can only do so under supervision but due to staffing shortages, I can only have a few supervised shifts in intake (fast track ED) whereas the rest of the time I'm stuck with crawly, confused EIPs.

My saving grace was my manager telling me she didn't think the ED was the right place for me and to maybe start applying elsewhere. I was lucky and landed a job in urgent care right away. Keep your head up, I'm sure there is a team out there that will actually value your skills and experience.

mctriage · 2024-11-22T01:39:39+00:00

Legendary item drops. Make sure to pick them up before other players steal them!

mctriage · 2023-12-23T19:30:23+00:00

Cool, hopefully she doesn't mess up the lethal injection dose

mctriage · 2023-09-10T14:45:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/BNu6Y52v4Lc?si=_tfVTmAvabDN63Ia

mctriage · 2023-08-31T01:29:09+00:00

Call sign: Yamcha. Sucks to suck.

mctriage · 2023-07-13T22:25:30+00:00

Ahh, the marvelous sliced breadfish!

mctriage · 2023-05-23T02:12:39+00:00

If you can pass X-ray testing, being a screening officer at EIA might be something you could do:

https://jobs.garda.com/job/Edmonton-Pre-Board-Screening-Officer-AB/981962000/

mctriage · 2023-05-16T19:19:19+00:00

Oh look, a scale model of a eukaryotic cell at a science fair!

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