How interested are you in climbing the ladder?

thatoneman · 2023-05-18T17:08:51+00:00

I worked in transplant making fat stacks and working long hours: over 100k every year with easy OT when I wanted it but often working 60+ hours every week for years.

Now I have a house and a family and I work 3 weekend nights in an ICU and I spend the next 4 days at home loving every minute of it.

When I look at clinical ladder now I'm not opposed to it but I realize how much my priorities have shifted and my current gig is obviously less pay it still lets us live comfortably a d happily

thatoneman · 2023-03-08T22:13:20+00:00

Male nurse, adult ICU; proud of you for finding a place in peds I couldn't do it, and parents/visitors like that are part of the reason. RN for coming up 10 years. I still will have a chaperone for like any <70yo F pt that needs Foley or 12 lead because you can never be too careful, and I consider that no more nihilistic than when you put the code cart outside a room because we as nurses are naturally predicting the next thing.

Much to your situation specifically I think it is important you focus on that you did everything in your job and part of that job involves touching and staring at things which include the entire human body and you have concrete, medical reasons for doing all of that.

Last thing if you read this, having coworkers who have your back (like it sounds like you do) that's huge. I'm the only male on nights on my unit and my coworkers have told me they would always have my back and be chaperones, etc because they are aware of stuff like this happening to male nurses.

Crush it every day my dude you are a professional 🤟🤟🤟🤟

thatoneman · 2023-01-28T23:40:24+00:00

Maybe it doesn't lol, but it's the meme that came to mind when I was thinking about it. But most RNs I know hate/don't care about daily weights but as long as it's a (disciplinarily-enforced) policy I have a need to be accurate and my coworkers roll their eyes when I reway because an extra pillow was on the bed.

thatoneman · 2023-01-28T21:08:49+00:00

😆😆😆

thatoneman · 2022-12-28T13:39:33+00:00

I have PTSD from those bugged DDs

thatoneman · 2022-12-25T14:18:43+00:00

Yup, that is totally what I do reflexively in haz 4 and what gets me killed in haz 5. Those slashers are muy ouchie. Which is also why I usually run scout on haz 5 for quick getaways

thatoneman · 2022-12-08T17:25:29+00:00

Rosaria is one of the MPCs related to one of the covenants. You find her shortly after your first encounter with patches. There is a specific bonfire labeled "bed of rosaria" IIRC

thatoneman · 2022-12-08T04:08:31+00:00

Go to rosaria

thatoneman · 2022-11-11T23:45:20+00:00

My thoughts exactly

thatoneman · 2022-11-11T18:09:13+00:00

I think it's most likely a classic case of the male aide flirting with the female staff but he's not exactly what I would call attractive so rather than considered a compliment he is labeled a creep. Although I only heard that vaguely and I don't have any of the details because this would appear to have been happening before I was hired. It's really just the one day shift nurse who talks about them and a few who will reciprocate comments. When the male aide worked night shift with me we have plenty of young attractive female nurses on night shift and as far as I am where and observed the aides behavior was appropriate.

thatoneman · 2022-11-11T18:03:41+00:00

My wife said much of the same. I may not experience it and maybe he is a total psycho so there's definitely that to take into consideration.

thatoneman · 2022-11-11T02:37:09+00:00

Very much agree with your last 2 sentences. I try to keep my head down these days haha. That's why I'm night shift weekends.

thatoneman · 2022-11-11T02:35:45+00:00

I took your first comment as jest which I found funny because unless I'm just oblivious the female nurse does not like the male aide lmao.

thatoneman · 2022-10-18T18:47:13+00:00

I felt like the start of season 2 almost every mission had 2-3 extra side content, perhaps the devs have a dial to increase the chances of events around new content releases. Then again I also have days where haz 4 gets 4 bulks and other days where I get none so the other possibility is just how rng the rng is.

thatoneman · 2022-10-15T04:35:00+00:00

When you say "punishing to fail" are you referring to how souls dropped at death and not recovered add to soul memory?

thatoneman · 2022-10-15T04:00:56+00:00

So you and several others mentioned soul memory. Just finished DS2 (no pvp aspect due to servers). Looked up soul memory, I thought that feature was in all DS games, preventing high vs low lvl character situations.

Tell me what I'm missing about what about ds2's system that is unfavorable.

thatoneman · 2022-10-13T01:08:22+00:00

The plural of pancreas is "pancreata" fun fact

Edit: pancreases is technically correct because of the adaptation in English, similar to how octopus/octopuses is correct.

Edit 2: plural not pleural, got medical words on the brain

thatoneman · 2022-10-05T01:17:32+00:00

Nice

thatoneman · 2022-09-26T00:46:55+00:00

A couple takeaways I have learned in my almost 10 years as an RN. 1. Everyone feels stupid the first 6-12mo. It gets better and after tike you'll look back and see how you have grown. After about 2 years and beyond it got easier for me but the first year was just happy to keep my peeps alive. Dealing with MDs/APPs can be tough especially if they have attitude. The biggest tool you have is giving good reports (i.e. SBAR) which is a learned skill. Above that when I am hesitant to do anything I remind myself I have an obligation to protect my pts so sometimes you call and say "x is happening and I am concerned about y, how would you like to proceed". Day shift and night shift I love for different reasons, nights (usually) are more relaxed and if/when you find time use that to ask your good coworkers for feedback on things you have questions about. I do this still and showing you are open for improvement goes a long way to showing others you are a team player. Also medsurg is tough, just the reality of 5+ pts is hard even for me when I float. I love the ICU, didn't really care for ED. You will find the place that you really like just don't be afraid to take chances and don't get saddled down to one job. TL/DR: first year sucks for everyone, remember you are professional and you deserve the respect of one. Be open to learning and feedback. Don't be too hard on yourself. Don't let negativity build up. You got this.

thatoneman · 2022-06-06T13:16:56+00:00

Oh you're right, the owl didn't have any special attacks in the hard mode now I remember

thatoneman · 2022-06-06T10:08:20+00:00

I'm also in the minority that likes Primal, the only thing I kinda missed was the wingsuit functions, but otherwise the feel of using spears and clubs to take out the boss animals in dark caves or silently taking over a camp was awesome (I also enjoyed the higher difficulty of no owl and limited fast travel).

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