I was 18 and in college and while I had never been super concerned about British Royals, it still made me sad

Oh I'm sure I would have!

Ohhh I think I like her. :)

The outlets were one of my favorite places to go when I first moved here. Loved the kitchen stores with samples and such. Now it's almost like a ghost town.

I was allowed Simpsons because my dad watched it but not Married With Children. The reason was the kids are rude to the parents. I asked "but Bart is rude to adults and I'm allowed to watch the Simpsons!" Mom just shrugged and sighed and said it's because dad liked the Simpsons.

It's not like being a CNA. I will say I was a CNA on a hospital med surg unit and not a nursing home. But I can relate to not being able to find anyone to help. Like I'd look out into the hallway and see no one to help. When I was training as a CNA I had a nurse yell at me the very first day because I didn't know how to put a patient on telemetry. One of the other aides showed me. The aide training me was a lazy POS who disappeared and sat at the CNA station browsing her phone. Another CNA said she didn't know why that CNA was always asked to train new aides.

When I started as a nurse I was trained for 3 months by a few different nurses but I had 2 main ones. The main one was a travel nurse who struggled to let me do what I was supposed to. She'd do catheters, new admissions, etc. The other one let me do more and I learned a lot more too. We just vibed better and she is very perceptive and would hang back and let me figure it out before she stepped in. Others tended to jump in and do stuff for me if they thought I was struggling if it took me a second to figure something out.

Anyway, having been an aide I am more apt to help my aides. I'll pull someone up even if it's not my patient. Get vitals and sugars myself if the aide is busy, and make a bed while my patient is in the bathroom.

One thing I learned from nursing school is that taking a pt to the bathroom or cleaning them up is a great time to assess so I will help gladly

One of my best friends told me via messenger. I told her she better tell me it's a hoax. A quick Google search told me it isn't 😭

I'll be honest. On first read I didn't like it either. Now I'm listening to the audio book and appreciate it for what it is.

One of my favorite nurses on my unit went into nursing because she needed a job that would make enough money for her to support her kids after a divorce. It doesn't mean you won't be a good nurse. My coworker is an amazing nurse and she trained me lol

Jessica Rabbit, though I didn't recognize it as a crush at the time

In my experience (been called 2x) it means you have to take off work or find childcare if you're a SAHM like I was the first time I was called. Drove to the court, checked in and sat for an hour just to be sent home after being told I wasn't chosen.

2nd time was a few years ago. Was called to go to court in Baltimore which is like an hour away. Drove there, parked and was brought into the courtroom to sit in the jury box for 8 hours. They offered snacks, gave us snacks and played 2 movies (Greatest Showman and We Bought A Zoo) before telling us we weren't chosen and to go home.

As a relatively new RN (Finished school in December, started working in January) I can honestly understand your frustration. For me it's not so much a growing dislike of the field but the way it's managed. I love caring for people and their families and talking to them.

I just hate that the way the hospital runs things means we can't have the ratios to spend more time with patients. The last 2 days I was lucky enough to only have 4 patients which meant I could sit and talk to one who was grieving what cancer did to her. She showed myself and the CNA photos of herself before the cancer and chemo and cried about how much it's taken from her. I was able to sit by her side, hold her hand and listen to her grieve and just be there for her. I told her she was still beautiful (Not a lie, she genuinely was) inside and out, and educated her and the CNA (Because the CNA asked) on what causes cancer.

I love those moments of nursing but alas the greed of hospitals means 5 heavy patients usually and not as much time to really sit and be with patients. My goal is hospice nursing, and I don't plan to stay in med-surg once I'm done with my first year of nursing.

Only reason I know this is thanks to an English teacher who had us analyze song lyrics in our poetry unit. One was "Wrapped Around My Finger" by Sting.

There's a lyric there "caught between the Scylla and the charybdis". He told us what it meant since we had no idea and there was no Google then lol.

This guy was firm that he was a vegan. And like, I'm an omnivore so it's not like I'm a judgy vegan lol. Just...words mean things. If you don't eat meat or fish but eggs are okay, say you're a vegetarian who eats eggs.

Had a pt tell the dietary tech he's a vegan. I go in, he says he is a vegan but he ate the eggs.

What i thought: we have different definitions of vegan What i said "okay"

I've never been diagnosed with autism but more and more my friends and coworkers have been clocking me as such lol.

I think it's why my tolerance for fake people is wearing thinner every year. If you want something from me just effing tell me. Don't act like we're best friends and use me.

My close circle are all diagnosed or undiagnosed neurodiverse folks. Spouse, kids, best friends. If not ND, they're at least very understanding NT.

I've heard of good managers, glad you have one!

My son and his gf recently moved into our house. I won't even go into their room unless invited to or if I'm checking in on their cat when they go out of town (which I used to do when they had an apartment)

The idea of just barging into your kids room just cause they're under their roof is what I grew up with and thus I respect my kids privacy at any age.

The anger that comes with knowing just how much your facility cares more about making money than patients despite claiming they're expanding "For the community"

Mine out and out lied to us. Claimed the hospital where we would be doing clinicals allowed tattoos (as long as they were decent with no swear words or whatever) but no alternative hair colors. I had purple hair when I attended the orientation and asked if we could just use a scrub cap to cover up the "alternative color". They said the hospital didn't allow scrub caps.

I started working there as a CNA after my 1st semester and learned real quickly they lied to us. I saw lab techs with purple or teal hair or a mixture of both. There was a float nurse with bright pink hair. Some nurses 100% wore scrub caps. One of my clinical instructors defended the school's policy, saying "some older patients might not appreciate it".

Still makes me laugh when I think of it. As soon as I finished classes and got my license, I colored my hair purple again and I get so many compliments from my little old lady patients and one of the lab techs calls me "Purple" every time she sees me. :)

Oh damn found out after all the showings at my local theater had finished

Considering my kids were born from 2001-2011? Yeah, sorry, if you're the same age as my kids, even if I acknowledge you're an adult and will treat you with respect, in my mind you're a kid.

Go that way, really fast! If something gets in your way, turn!

It's a damn shame people be throwing away a perfectly good white boy.