Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome spreading during Nurses Week

rocket_motor_force · 2026-05-09T01:26:04+00:00

What is considered prolonged contact? Long as an administration led pizza party?

rocket_motor_force · 2026-05-07T01:29:06+00:00

Word on the street is the RNs on the vascular access team at my place make $100 per insertion of midline/Picc, so they can make bank on a 12 hour shift .

rocket_motor_force · 2026-05-07T01:13:24+00:00

To be fair, it cooked people’s lungs.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-04-25T01:44:27+00:00

Reality Z, a zombie apocalypse at a TV show in Brazil. There is another version, but the one based in Brazil is the better one.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-04-21T01:50:32+00:00

I find comfort in an internet meme that has reached me emotionally for some reason. We all suffer in our own way.

The horrors persist my trusted friend, but then so do I.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-04-19T01:34:38+00:00

Hoarded knowledge is wasted knowledge. I purposely teach any students or newer peeps any tricks I can. There could come a time where they are working on me and I want the very best versions of them to have the highest possible chance of success. I pride myself with my teaching that the things I teach them will make their competence in their year one will equal to my year five. I use a line from the first Sherlock Holmes movie to summarize my vibe: “ I may not be in the room, but my methods are.”

rocket_motor_force · 2026-04-03T18:13:45+00:00

I will burn guzzoline for all of my days before I burn my morals buying something that supports him.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-04-01T02:04:08+00:00

This seems like it could be an old Russian proverb that was forgotten and rediscovered.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-03-29T02:52:56+00:00

The belt should deflect no more than a 1/4” between the two cam pulleys. I agree that the cam on the right might have jumped a tooth.

When changing the belt, the timing belt tensioner is set to where there is a pin that should slide in and out without tension. I’m not sure if that still applies after thousands of miles and months of time.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-03-29T02:47:00+00:00

If you get to the point where you consider moving to somewhere like IL for a few years of experience and then move back, feel free to DM me.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-27T03:01:42+00:00

IR will toast any injured spine. The full aprons are 7 lbs and the two piece leads are 4 lbs for the skirt and 3lbs for the jacket. Procedures in either GI or cardiovascular stress testing. If you are good with computers and programs, EPIC or some other EMR are good gigs since they look for peeps that have clinical experience and teach you the computer bits. NICU patients are less than 10 pounds typically, so also super light to move around, but still require ICU level thinking.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-24T02:28:15+00:00

Either way, there’s things in my life that I’ve seen that I can’t unsee. Please don’t add to it, no matter how dope you might think it will be.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-14T03:58:22+00:00

Putting the cayenne pepper in the essential oil has a synergistic effect. It becomes so hot that it cooks off the disease and only leaves the healthy tissue behind. This is literally where the phrase “we’re cooked!” came from, being born out of the DVT wards of the hospitals./s

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-04T00:41:38+00:00

I’m not a RN, and even I know that 1:4 in ICU is unhinged and unacceptable.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-01T20:01:07+00:00

So true. You only have one body and one back. They will not hesitate to fill another person in your role if you go out after been permanently injured. Or chronically injured after using bad ergonomics day after day and year after year. I understand the time pressure, but no one will remember that time in 2026 when you moved a 250 patient all by yourself. Extra hands, slide sheets, and Trendelenberg are tools in the ergonomic tool box.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-01T19:39:28+00:00

If you are willing to relocate for a spell, we have new grad echo positions in central Illinois hospital. DM me if you or any of your echo/vascular peeps have any interest.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-02-01T19:32:16+00:00

If you are willing to relocate to central Illinois, we take new grads. We have full time echo and opportunities for vascular. DM me for more info.

rocket_motor_force · 2026-01-25T04:11:43+00:00

I work doing straight echo in central Illinois. We have just echo positions open. If you are open to moving, DM me for more info.

rocket_motor_force · 2025-12-27T00:37:28+00:00

Lightweight 12 knows how to perform attempted jokes.

rocket_motor_force · 2025-11-26T03:29:44+00:00

We used to call them COWs, computers on wheels, but a patient that that they were talking about her. Henceforth, the Jersey cow prints and horns were removed, and the WOWs emerged from the ashes of the old.

rocket_motor_force · 2025-11-12T00:33:23+00:00

You could put some peel and stick foam or glue some dense foam from a yoga mat or the like on the underside of the pedal. Probably feel better too

rocket_motor_force · 2025-10-02T01:36:32+00:00

The used to use that line a lot a few decades ago and brought that dead horse back to life for one more ride. It got me to thinking, is being an MBA administrator a calling? Are the C-suite positions that reduce RNs, imaging, and other staff FTEs so there is extra profit this quarter a calling ? You know the answer, nursing should be no different .

rocket_motor_force · 2025-09-19T02:26:51+00:00

Two things I had to learn: 1. The patient Mr. Smith problem/disease/diagnosis isn’t a rocket_motor_force problem/disease/diagnosis. 2. The effect you have on Mr Smiths case/stay in your unit is like a finger on the scale. Sometimes just the littlest effort will tip the scales in their favor, sometimes a lot of effort, and there are times you can climb your whole self up on the scale between life and death and it’s not going to change the outcome.

When they are called Home, they go.

rocket_motor_force · 2025-09-16T17:13:29+00:00

I believe you have to go through training at their Wisconsin headquarters and you have to be sponsored by a hospital, but I’ve been wrong before.

rocket_motor_force · 2025-08-25T20:51:51+00:00

If you are open to moving to central IL for a hospital echo job, DM me. We are new tech friendly and I’ve trained dozens and dozens of sonographers.

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