Hazor

@Hazor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Player two has entered the lobby⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Suddenly realizing the anti-education efforts of the Republican bunch, the Koch’s and all their ilk, is actually motivated by self-preservation. It’s harder to know how to kill your overlords if you never learn about anatomy to know what parts are fragile. For example, you’d never know that cutting the femoral arteries can be every bit as fatal as the carotids, or that when targeting the heart/lungs a knife blade in a vertical orientation would just get caught in the ribs, or that puncturing both lungs would also be extremely bad.

  A gut wound that reaches the abdominal aorta very well could be death, but how many people even know where it is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of Death in London (1623)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nurses who changed specialties, how many months working full time did you need to stand on your feet at your new unit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, not exactly what you’re asking, but: I worked for 4 years as a psych tech before becoming a nurse, then switched to ED when I graduated. It took a solid 6 months in ED to start feeling like I had any idea what I was doing and not feel like I was in a panic every single day, then another 6 months before I started feeling actually somewhat comfortable. Part of this is because I was a new nurse, and part of it was because ED has a steep learning curve (the orientation period was 5 months iirc). I suspect it would have been an easier transition to ED if I had already had some experience as a nurse on something like a med-surg or cardiac unit. I switched back to psych as a RN and it really only took a few weeks before I was “standing on my feet” as it were, but I already had a good deal of psych experience from being a tech and I wasn’t a new-grad nurse anymore.

  What do you mean by dedication? As in time/effort to acquire the necessary skills/knowledge, or emotional fortitude? Definitely oncology and hospice require a lot of the latter, as you and death will become familiar company. ED sees a fair amount of death and it tends to be constant demands, constant action, with days where you wont have a chance to catch your breath. Psych can be soul-sucking at times and tends to be at higher risk of violence from patients, but there’s also a lot less dying or cleaning up of blood and feces. How much dedication a specialty might take will depend in large part on what your strengths are and what you can tolerate or are willing to put up with. I hated ED because of the constant pressure and never knowing what will come through the door next, but I love psych despite often having to work with people with aggression problems and having been hit a few times.

  Are you thinking of changing specialties? What’s your motivation? What do you want to do now, and do you have something particular in mind? I suspect the ease of transition will mostly depend on what experience you already have and how much skill/knowledge overlap there is with the new specialty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the shorter fence in the foreground. It looks like the space between the two fences is probably a line between the properties, and the neighbor did their fence backwards from what you’re imagining, whereas the foreground fence is oriented the way you’d expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I can do is 98% off the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are too busy with the laptop to have much attention left for patients. I’m a nurse practitioner, and can confirm this: I spend at least half of my time tapping away at the computer, checking boxes, and completing often-redundant forms for insurance and regulatory compliance and whatnot. It’s really frustrating, and there’s a lot of room for improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but to clarify: the time constraints are imposed by for-profit healthcare businesses trying to optimize billable time because insurance will only reimburse for so much time, rather than being imposed by the insurance companies directly. (It’s generally not quite as silly in the non-profit sector.) I work in healthcare in the US: we all hate how it works. The system sucks and it interferes with the quality of care that can be provided, leaving patients worse off just so that greedy can be fed. It’s just asinine that anyone who has no medical knowledge/training is making decisions about how patient care can be implemented, especially where there’s a profit motive involved. We really need to pivot to single-payer or national healthcare system, and abolish for-profit ownership of hospitals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate people like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with “associate” or “partner” instead of employee. Garbage nonsense. It’s insulting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a nurse. We usually recommend at least 350 calories, but ideally with a meal, but it also depends on the medication. For some, it’s to slow how quickly the medication is absorbed and/or reduce side effects, and isn’t necessary for the medication to work (e.g., stimulants, some antidepressants). For others, taking with food is necessary for the medication to be absorbed effectively so that it works (e.g., Latuda, used to treat mood and psychotic disorders).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my hyper religious, Southern Baptist upbringing, I often heard Christians say that Christianity is not a religion. The mental gymnastics employed to explain this position were varied. Most often it was “Christianity isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship [with God]”, or something along the lines of “Christianity isn’t a religion because it’s true”.

  “Religion” in general was thus deemed a bad thing, because it was a term used to encapsulate all the other (and thus false) faith-belief-philosophy systems that were used by Satan to lead the world away from God. It bears noting that Catholicism and other major denominations always all fell under that umbrella of “other”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your opinion of the Jhoes?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where can I buy a pair? … No, seriously, is wear these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Starsiege: Tribes (and Tribes 2) Knights of the Old Republic (why not more mentions of this?!) And Valheim or Minecraft. Both have offered countless hours of entertainment in the company of friends and family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing this, mildly surprised I hadn’t heard of it! I’m glad that someone has picked up the Starsiege/Tribes intellectual property, whatever form it’s taking.

  There’s Midair 2 Community Edition, or something like that, which you can find on Steam. Join their Discord channel and you can probably get a playtest key. It looks like it’s just going to be little more than the LT mod with cosmetic micro transactions though, which are the opposite of anything I liked about Tribes… But jet packs and skiing are there, so I’ll play it at least a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to make my data worthless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Private browser mode in many browsers disables plugins by default, and also doesn’t do anything to stop trackers or data collection. All private mode does is keep your activity private from others who also have access to your device (e.g. family members, roommates), by not saving browser history/cookies/etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to make my data worthless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I contend that it’s chaotic good.