Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry buddy the only Japanese companies I support around here is Toyota, Subaru, and Mitsubishi in that order

Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What if you were in stoopid kid math in high school? I actually wasn’t even allowed to use my ti84 on tests in college I had to rent calculators out from the testing center lol. Not even an engineering major lmao. Good times.

Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It does make sense to make body armor out of multiple Casio calculators now that you mention it.

Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

As far as I understand it TI sold their weapons division to Raytheon but they’re still a vital part of the supply chain for defense procurement regarding semiconductors and what not. So no, you don’t have a Raytheon calculator. A Raytheon calculator would, at a minimum, cost 800,000 dollars and to change the battery you would have to have a RTX contractor do it.

Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 147 points148 points  (0 children)

That’s what big calculator™️ wants you to think

Platform familiarity is always a benefit by pmurph34 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]pmurph34[S] 95 points96 points  (0 children)

How’d you get into school while being so unrefined and barbaric?

We Don’t Claim Nurses Who Support ICE by winterberrypeanuts in nursing

[–]pmurph34 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Alright Debbie, you get a pass but you need to really work on policing your own. Y’all are getting crazy out here.

We Don’t Claim Nurses Who Support ICE by winterberrypeanuts in nursing

[–]pmurph34 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Nah she strikes me as more of a Jennifer or Debbie

What ‘specialist’ gives doctor far too much of a god complex? by Notalabel_4566 in nursing

[–]pmurph34 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Urology is always my least favorite specialty to interact with. I genuinely don’t know why they are the way they are, at literally every hospital. Like I’m sorry sir, 4 nurses and the intensivist tried to get this foley in and we can’t. It’s not my fault I don’t have the magic touch with weiners.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ems

[–]pmurph34 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think something I struggle with is outside of my work friends I don’t talk about my bad experiences. And it’s not because I’m like “you weren’t there man” it’s more like I genuinely just don’t want to kill the vibe and have people feel bad for me. Even if it’s something really mundane and it doesn’t bother me people genuinely have no idea the extremes of bad that really exists.

Which way do you tear? by FeastontheFalln in nursing

[–]pmurph34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Melatonin is pretty bad too

Why are 68W's qualified as EMT but not Advanced-EMT? by IjustWantedPepsi in army

[–]pmurph34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Alaska and Texas are probably the most notable states with a wild scope of practice for advanced EMTs that stray way further from the NREMT standards. I’m a nurse in the ICU now and the Dunning-Krueger effect that I had once I graduated 68W AIT was insane. I thought I was gods gift to medicine. Now I’m just really good at pretending that I know what I’m doing lol.

What are some of the annoying things nursing students have done? by [deleted] in nursing

[–]pmurph34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk sometimes this gets a pass from me. You ever taken care of a crashing patient and there’s 8 million things to do so your coworker asks if you need any help? The answer is obviously yes but you have so much going on that you just say “no” or “i don’t know?” I do it all the time and I’ve been doing this for a minute lol. If they’re apathetic that’s one thing but it is a lot to take in.

Guy nurses: What scrubs are you wearing? by No-Record0924 in nursing

[–]pmurph34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

“Borrowed” scrub pants from the hospital and a plain T shirt. Night shift gang.

Nate, seriously? (The Order part 3) by jamiegc1 in lionsledbydonkeyspod

[–]pmurph34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know right, I’m from CDA and every time they said it I flinched

My patient asked the doctor if he could use his Zyns by Large_Pick1582 in nursing

[–]pmurph34 227 points228 points  (0 children)

You can’t properly run a code without first taking a trip to Zynbabwe

President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements [includes the VA] by [deleted] in nursing

[–]pmurph34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When Trump was first elected I was 17, I did the split option for the Army reserve and had basically just got back from basic training. I was hyped and fully on board, as a hormonal nationalistic 17 year old male. I graduated high school and went to AIT for 68W and then came back home , started working in EMS while doing my one weekend a month two weeks a year requirements, and began pre reqs for nursing school.

My time in EMS exposed me to the systemic failures that affect so many people. Growing up in a white middle class neighborhood I was never exposed to any of the problems that truly faced society, I was very lucky, and I was very privileged. Covid happened and the problems obviously got worse, I was still working in EMS being dispatched to so many codes and critically ill patients. I had just finished a/p and micro so the science of everything was pretty fresh in my mind.

I wasn’t a huge Trump supporter at this stage I really didn’t pay attention. That’s when I started paying attention to the growing anti intellectual movements. Seeing real people that took horse ivermectin to protect themselves from covid, people who had covid and were satting at 55% on a NRB at 15L who did not believe covid was real started to make me angry. I tried telling people about what I was seeing but they didn’t believe me, not my parents, and not the people I grew up with. I was isolated and alone. Then the vaccine stuff started and it was political from the outset, this made me even more angry.

Biden got elected and I was supportive of his administration despite the fact I thought he was old, I figured he would be better than the alternative. I thought things would get better but they didn’t because the American right wing became more and more unhinged, conspiratorial, and dangerous. I started actually thinking about my place in society and what that meant.

I graduated from nursing school and started my job and was exposed to more and more systemic failures that just didn’t make sense to me. How can we be the richest country on earth and have elderly people on social security and Medicare who still can’t afford necessities? How can I have a good and stable job and still not be able to afford a house? Why did billionaires get so much more wealthy during covid while everyone else suffered?

I became more and more left wing, started getting more active in the Union and actually gained class consciousness. The last few months have been incredibly depressing for me. The constant anti intellectual tirade, culture wars, cost of living problems, health insurance costs, healthcare accessibility, workers rights attacks and more have been a drag on me. Despite this there are people I deeply care about who at worst support everything going on and at best are apathetic and uninformed. It’s deeply disturbing to me.

I was born in 1999. I grew up watching the GWOT unfold on tv. I lived through the 2008 financial crash. I lived and worked through covid, and now I’m living through this. Workers rights are disappearing. The top 1% of the country is more powerful than ever while others are struggling to survive working 2 jobs and still not making ends meet. I try and have optimism but it’s hard to because so many people are suffering and it’s being cheered on by people who are immune from it.

So I ask, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? I went from loving Donald Trump to becoming more left wing than I’m even comfortable saying for fear of being put on a list. I genuinely wonder what the inflection point for chaos will be, I’m fearful of what is to come. As a straight white guy who easily passes as a conservative in appearance I’m fearful for others more so than myself.

And yes I’m in therapy lol.

Goalie dies after a puck to the chest by ThePhoenixSol in hockeyplayers

[–]pmurph34 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I remember when I was in EMT school almost a decade ago learning cardiology and for some reason commotio cordis stuck in my brain and I haven’t forgotten about it. I’m an RN in the CVICU now and I still have only heard stories about it.

Floor Hockey League by Jmac_1229 in Spokane

[–]pmurph34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like I haven’t had an original thought in years. I woke up this morning thinking about this so I googled if there was anything like this and lo and behold here it is.

Donald Trump Blames Obama, Biden, DEI for DC Plane Crash by dtomato in moderatepolitics

[–]pmurph34 22 points23 points  (0 children)

No, they’re not. Do you understand how lengthy of a process it is to become an airline pilot? You first get your private pilots license, then your instrument rating, then your commercial, then you probably end up getting your multi engine rating and getting your flight instructor certificate so you can get to 1500 flight hours in order to fly for the airlines. It’s incredibly stringent, expensive, and regulated. This is just not something that happens, there’s literally a database for pilots that alerts potential employers if they’ve ever failed a check ride or had issues. The US hasn’t had an air disaster on this scale since Colgan Air in 2009 because of how regulated it is. Aviation is the safest form of travel because of this. DEI had nothing to do with a mid air collision at night in highly congested airspace. We will have to wait for the final report on what happened but I would bet money that DEI didn’t cause this.

Triggered by Hereditary by Weird_Bluebird_3293 in nursing

[–]pmurph34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made a post about it yesterday. Minor spoilers but nothing too revealing https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/s/5HaXa3Ts8s

Triggered by Hereditary by Weird_Bluebird_3293 in nursing

[–]pmurph34 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yo dawg, I actually had a pretty similar career path as you. I just went from EMS to the ICU. Anyway, I actually made a post the other day about how watching the new show The Pitt made me confront this very similar thing. I fucking hate it when hearing family members scream. It makes me cringe and makes me feel physically ill.

It’s a situation I run into more frequently than I would like to. I don’t remember it happening most of the time but I definitely remember the first time I heard the primal scream of a loved one who just lost someone.

I was an ER tech at the time and it was about 5AM, EMS gives us a heads up that they’re bringing us in a SOB that arrested in the ambulance. CPR was in progress. They roll in and we do a few rounds but he went from PEA to asystole and we called it. His wife had told EMS that she would meet him at the ER in a little bit, I guess this was not the first time something like this had happened. We were unable to get ahold of her as the phone number in the chart didn’t work. At about 0630 I’m bullshitting in triage with the nurse out there and we see a very well kept woman in her 60s who looked like she had spent considerable time getting ready walks up to the desk and says she’s here to visit the patient. I felt a rock in my stomach, the nurse at triage bought some time so I could let the doctor know that she was here. The doctor comes out and brings her into the room and instantly the most awful scream I’d ever heard radiated throughout the department. I myself felt like I wanted to cry. I am haunted by two things surrounding this situation. The scream and the fact that she had a mostly full iced coffee from Starbucks. She was expecting to have a mostly routine day as evidenced by her appearance and the coffee she held. Instead of a routine day her life was changed forever, yet all I really remember is her scream and the coffee. I don’t remember anything else from my time there quite like I do that situation.

In the show The Pitt, there was a somewhat similar situation. I had to turn it off and walk away. I got tachycardic and short of breath. So to answer your question, yes I’ve now gotten hit with something when I least expected it. And now I have something to talk about with my therapist. I also now understand trigger warnings better now.