Anecdotal, but I think there’s some kind of immunity component. My parents grew up in a mosquito infested country. When we visited said country, us kids were bitten up while my parents were fine. If it was genetics, you think it would’ve been passed on to us. The locals commonly joked that mosquitos like “new blood.” You could see tourists with itchy red bite reactions while the locals were fine.

Damn that might be mine too. We didn’t get to have video games when I was little. Then I discovered PC gaming via Runescape😂

Tildes is a good example of a healthy community that allows for differences while encouraging good faith discussion. They police for tone instead of wrongness and it’s been working out over there. People are generally happy with the discourse.

A lot of it is in site design, too. There aren’t downvotes, because they’re not needed. There’s a lot of proactive moderation coming from the community by using comment labels. Labels help push comments up or down, and some require you to type a reason why, which encourages thoughtfulness instead of knee-jerk hivemind reaction and pile on. The only publicly visible label is the “good” one, so it keeps things positive. The “bad” label alerts mods and has a cooldown time limit, so it’s less likely to be abused. I believe once it’s used on a comment, the person can no longer reply to it, which helps avoid negative back and forths.

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Too much growth too fast for sure! Much harder for Lemmy to create its own culture and maintain it. Much harder to discourage toxicity. Notice how healthy communities are often smaller.

Sucks for niche communities but they’ll get slowly spun up over time, and in the meantime they can be found in other places including Reddit. I don’t personally need everything to be a one-stop shop.

Nah, unless there’s some type emergency going on, you don’t have to worry about anyone but your assigned patients. Management can’t write you up for not catering to patients who aren’t under your care. If management complains, first of all it’s ridiculous, and second - it’s all talk. They don’t have shit. Direct other patients to their assigned nurse.

I don’t like being that person (“you’ll have to talk with your nurse”), but some workplaces require it due to lack of fairness and teamwork. Otherwise you get taken advantage of. So don’t feel bad.

And if management gives you shit and starts targeting you, talk to your union. Always have a paper trail. Or if no union, look elsewhere for better bosses to work for.

RN = Refreshments and Narcotics

This is generally my belief. There is no dichotomy. Life is full of gray areas. Also what is morally virtuous or superior to you may not be the case for others. Take religious differences, for example.

I have the Shokz OpenRun Pro. Well worth the money, no complaints. I wear them all the time at work (hazard issue to have in-ear earbuds). There’s a pause button on the side when I’m trying to give somebody my full attention, or I’ll just take them off and wear it around my neck. Lasts through a 16 hr shift.

I don’t do turkey and cranberry sauce, porkchop with applesauce, paté with jam/chutneys… something about meat and fruit sauce. Well but I don’t like chicken and waffles either. Oh, and bacon donuts!

How bout something like onion jam and cheese?

I said the same about fruity beers, sours, lambics, (also found white wines too acidic) and now I like them lol. Sometimes taste changes when you get older.

Saves time from having to draw them on every day.

Cerave’s great for eczema!

I hate those questions and I do the same as you. Keeping lists. But for me, that’s probably a coping skill for ADHD. Anyway I don’t really have a single favorite anything. I have multiple favorites. More like flavors of the month lol. I dislike those questions because it makes me have to pick, as if it’s some consistent thing (it’s not) that I now get stuck with as some sort of assumption about my being.

Bc that’s just what girls do bro😂 It’s actually clever on her part. She basically found a way to ask you out without having to ask you out. Or “hang out,” if you prefer. It’s low risk, and basically no way of you rejecting her. She could always default to, ‘well I was just doing my own thing anyway’ lol.

I actually had my partner read this too, and we’re in agreement, so you’ve got both a male and female opinion here lol:

SHE asked for your number, SHE wanted to spend more time with you. Seems awfully convenient that she wasn’t able to do her work for whatever reason, and instead was content with just chit chatting. Also – hearts are flirty. Especially at work AND you just met the person.

We think she’s interested but you probably didn’t do enough during the hang out, and she didn’t want to embarrass herself, so she just downplayed it.

Our advice is to just ask her out. She seems more forward, so she probably appreciates confidence. “Hey I had fun talking! We should get dinner some time. Are you available?”

For me, it’s all about reading people. If they’re really hmming and hawing, I might ask “what’s the matter?” to get a read on their concerns. Remind them of the benefits, that these are MD orders, maybe it’s a medication that they shouldn’t just stop cold, maybe they wanna talk to the MD first, maybe they had a bad experience and want to take an alternative med instead (and we can make that happen!), etc. Some are straight up scared to refuse😅 So I might remind them hey it’s totally your right to not take it. Depends on the patient really. But some give a firm “no” and I don’t argue with that.

Now all of the above is assuming I have time, because sometimes it’s just too dang busy. Med pass is usually a 10, maybe 30 seconds max interaction. Keep it moving.

The staring and angry reactions don’t phase me. Maybe it did when I was new. But you develop a thick skin real quick doing this job.

At the end of the day, med pass must be witnessed or you risk false documentation. It ensures time accuracy in record-keeping too, as in you (and pharmacy, and all other providers) know the patient took it at this time and not an hour/hours later. There are all sorts of med interactions and domino effects to consider.

As far as the not trusting patients thing - that doesn’t just come from nowhere. Obviously it would make all our lives easier if we could just trust people! But you see all types of scenarios in healthcare, whether it happens to you or a coworker. One day you’ll chart medication was given, maybe cardiac meds. Come in later and find the pills under their pillow or something. Maybe the patient codes later that night. I mean who knows. Just protect your license and don’t do risky shit that gets you burned. Because all it takes is one bad day.

Nah totally hilarious and endearing!🤣

I get the autonomy thing and refusing care is cool and all. Totally their right. I just remind them what the adverse outcome for refusal could be, document that and move on. BUT if I’m charting that the patient took the medication, I’m 100% standing there to witness it because I’m not just gonna trust them on it and potentially falsely document. People cheek their meds, pocket them, take them at a later time with other meds to get high, or whatever the hell. DON’T blindly trust patients. But yeah. Basically - I just care about the legalities. Lol