Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Completely unrelated, I stumbled across this picture and was surprised to realse I recognised the baby without use of the URL at all.
The IV pump alert has a very distinctive beep. It allows you to silence it, but for what can be no more than a minute each time, and I feel both silencing it and not silencing it are equalling batshit-insanemaking. Because of cables, I have to get up and lean over to hit the cozily placed silence button, putting down my sketch or tablet or whatever I've gotten into for the last 40 seconds.
Stabinate. Also, worsen headache.
I think the panopticon should be mandatory in all nursing degrees. Come on! There's got to be room for these things. And I can't believe I haven't had the panoALREADY ALARM? REALLY? FUCK YOUpticon conversation with more nurses. Today might be the first time. But I do think I can learn interesting things about different nurse's opinions on monitoring patients (and the comparison of a ward to prisonSO SOON? BITE ME, BEEPER or schools is enlightening too).
SHARKHOLE made me snort crackers out my nose.
People, teaching 6 hours a day is wearing me OUT.
Oh ita, I can't believe what you deal with. Hang in there. We're here for entertainment, at least.
People, teaching 6 hours a day is wearing me OUT.
It is seriously the most exhausting thing ever. I will be hiding under my bed come mid-August when that alarm goes off again.
Well, the docs came in and turned the pump off, so I hope no data was lost as the nurse before them was worried about. Out of my hands, anyway. A few more hours of meds, overnight observation (woo...pfft) and then home in the morning. It's not that great, to be honest. I've been dizzy for two days, and sometimes the pain wasn't too bad, but...just sitting here right now I can feel it creeping back.
Some of the IO9 posters just published an anthology. Called (amusingly as fuck to me) We Had Stars Once (referring to the now-deemed-cliquey mechanism of giving posting rights). I have no idea about the quality of the work, but at least the Kindle version is cheap: [link]
People, teaching 6 hours a day is wearing me OUT.
This I can believe.
ita, may things take a sudden turn toward the competent.
So do I want to watch sharks to get me off the trial coverage?
This week I've only taught for 4 hours a day and AM TIRED.
I was driving on Sunset and some dude was lane splitting on a largish white motorcycle while traffic was moving somewhat okay. He had on a tank top and shorts and flip flops (WTF?!?!) and his vanity motorcycle license plate (also I almost never see vanity plates on motorcycles) said "ERDOKTOR"
What a tool.
Also, it's too late, but on most of the IV pumps, if you push once you get a minute. If you push twice, I think, you get 3 minutes.
If you page the nurse and ask to handle it, it may or may not help.
The only advantage to an ICU is that the nurses pay more attention.
I wish I didn't have this info.
What a tool.
We could have a tool off, and then vote for who is the biggest tool!
My nomination: Whoever it was that found the new hiding place for the key to the cabinet where we keep the snacks we put out in the library (we had to lock the food up because people kept helping themselves), helped themselves to an entire Costco size container of peanut butter pretzels, and then put the key back in the old hiding place.
we totally need to have a tool off.
(iPad wants to correct that to "sharks no", which seems an appropriate response.)
Thumbs up to this.
panopticon
That was a disturbing Google. I knew the concept but not the term or its history.
