My tech who knows how to take and read basic vital signs, flip granny like a pancake and wash her genitals without giving her an infection, walk her to the bathroom without yanking her IV out or cracking her head on the floor, the basic legal aspects of a psych admission, and the basics of psychosis, mania, etc well enough to briefly counsel a patient on their symptoms and which ones are important enough to notify me about-

-makes 16 an hour. Not that the warehouse worker doesn’t deserve a living wage, but to call that more skilled labor than food service is frankly delusional.

Even my partner who does work in food service knows more than the warehouse worker because he knows the biology and chemistry of food safety and sanitation, prevention of allergen cross contamination, knife / sharps safety, and fire and fire extinguisher classifications and how to put out a grease fire-

-and that was before he got a job in the hospital kitchen where he also learned about specialized medical diets including food and drink thicknesses and consistencies, sodium and carb restrictions, and even safety trays for violent and suicidal patients.

What’s in that warehouse training? How to lift with your knees instead of your back and rotating stock? Storage temperatures? Because food service does all that too. The only thing they might know more about than a food service worker is how to use a forklift, and that’s only if their employer thought they were intelligent and level headed enough to bother training on one, and this post does not evidence those qualities.

Any nurse who’s had their ass beat by a dementia patient at 2am could tell you this.

I love nurse Johnn btw, “mr. smith” is (usually) his character w dementia.

• The witching hour

• General nonsense

• Mr smith in the ceiling again

• But maritas gonna go get him

Also try the math comms this is more of a math question and also I really really wanna know the answer.

Having talked to coworkers who worked nursing homes, some places were lucky to have those.

I’ve been told I’m annoying and need to shut up as long as I can remember. Probably since I started talking.

Was about to ask for a different state lol

classic

50 melons for grade school math problem

Actually I think I’m gonna start with:

“(10x-0.5)/2 snickers bars, where x is how much of my snickers you ate, you asshole.”

As an aside, do not use Vaseline with condoms. In addition to it not being body safe for internal use, some condoms are still latex and vaseline will dissolve them. Most condoms these days are nitrile, but again see above re: internal insertion safety.

About as well as I suspected. Slow but going.

cool!

Go chug some simple syrup straight and get back to me on that one, LOL. It’s not bad to put a smear on your cheek or tongue or to sip on I guess but to drink the amount you would need to for a gtt is… a LOT.

My first comment was going to be that “symptomatically treating” is a thing as in, it doesn’t directly shrink, damage, or otherwise affect the tumor in any way, it just reduces the amount that the tumor affects the person’s mood and cognition. Kinda like cold medicine doesn’t actually do anything to the viruses, it just unclogs your sinuses and stops your nose from itching and running which makes you more comfortable and helps you rest better which can kind of indirectly help the rest of your immune system handle things.

But more directly in response to this comment, there is good odds they’ll create a specific formulation that’s officially approved for the treatment of brain tumors. A great example of a medication that this currently applies to is Zyban, which is one of two Brands of the generic drug bupropion, the another common one being Wellbutrin. Zyban is specifically approved for the treatment of nicotine addiction, while wellbutrin is only prescribed “off label” for that specific purpose which means the doctor is giving it out of their own judgement (because they’re literally the exact same chemical: bupropion).

Now, there are some ways that different brands might actually be better or worse for certain things for instance the specific dosage could be different in a way that would be harder to achieve otherwise; it’s easier to tell a patient to take 1 tablet daily or twice a day than having to explain to them how to cut the tablet then take 1.5, or to measure out a syrup. More importantly though, the same drug can be given in forms that effect how quickly they’re released into the body, think advil quick release vs motrin, which are both ibuprofen. With psychiatric drugs like bupropion (which is also given for depression and ADHD) you more often see extended release, so that the effects are more long-lasting throughout the day.

All that said, while I couldn’t find a side-by-side dose comparison, that’s the lesser difference considering effective dosage is going to be a more variable efficacy factor between individual patients. Both come in extended release formulations meaning Zyban has no real reason to be around twice as expensive as Wellbutrin.

Tbh the flavor of those things is a big problem, they’re hard to choke down and a glucose tolerance test requires drinking it on an empty stomach, and if you puke you have to stop and come back another day after fasting again. Looks like that’s the orange flavor which is better than the grape but imo they’re all nasty in the end. A more palatable mixture might be nice.

Grey’s anatomy be like

I can hear it now, moon-gravity savings time which is kept by adding a leap-microsecond to every… (give me a few leapmicroseconds here to fuck up the math real bad) 25.714285716 minutes?

The literal definition of Revenge Bedtime Procrastination

I had my last green tea waaaaay too late into my shift overnight wish me luck crawling into bed right now.

I feel like the fact that this topic is being debated between two men is it’s own statement. Although I suppose the people it has to be debated to aren’t likely to listen to a woman anyway.

I actually lost a toy as a kid that never was found. Reading that story at like 10 years old practically gave me flashbacks. I was like ten years into adulthood when I realized I could buy another one. Not the same really but I have it still.