Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

@Mebhy At first, I was a bit confused. Then I noticed the keyboard. Oh dear.

@daviddd@tech.lgbt Because these people don't realize it's possible to mod a 3DS without Pokémon Picross (It's almost like they haven't checked https://3ds.hacks.guide before making such absurd claims.)

"Well, okay, you can shit at work but you'll have to use the patient restroom that we disabled the lock on."

"Sorry, you're no longer allowed to shit at work. You've exceeded the radiation dose limit for the year."

So, I'm enjoying my stint here at the cancer center and all, the patients are nice and all that fun stuff, but, like, did they have to put the staff bathroom right next to the X-ray room?! Every time I hear the noise it makes, I start to wonder just how much of a dose of radiation I'm getting. Who'd have thought I'd need a dosimeter just to use the restroom...

On the bright side, at least all of this sitting here doing nothing counts as being here, so it's 8 more hours towards the 180 hour requirement. I mean, granted, I would have preferred that 8 hours be spent actually practicing sticking patients, but still. I guess I'll take it.

Literally the most exciting thing to happen today was getting to draw that single patient. It would have been getting to see how they do port draws, but it took 3 hours to finally get that guy (it was at around 11:00) and we haven't had any since.

Man, if today isn't the most exciting day of clinicals, I don't know what is. I've drawn a single tube from a single patient. We've only had, like, 5 people come in in the first place, 3 of which were port draws that we don't do and one of which was a T&S that I'm not allowed to do, so it's not like I've just been seeing a bunch of people that I decided were too hard for me to stick.

So, a while back, I took a small, self-paced electrical safety course as part of the whole phlebotomy thing because, you know, might be useful. I DID NOT EXPECT TO NEED IT. And, yet, a colleague nearly set the place on fire trying to unplug something. We still have no clue why it got all sparky, and yet, it did. Remember, kids: Workplace safety training exists for a reason!

I...I'm sorry. Did the person who wrote this have a stroke while doing so or something?!

@stella

Today, I'm working an outpatient clinic instead of a hospital. If there's anything I've learned, it's that I don't think I'm cut out for outpatient. I'll do it, but aaaa is it not for me

Okay, I'm not sure what was better, him or the woman who insisted her mom stick around as long as possible on her discharge day so she could watch a show on a channel she didn't get at home. Those two were just great in general. Neither me nor the nurse in there could hold it together. Training never prepared me for this, and definitely not hearing a patient calling a person on TV a slut.

Yeah, we had a guy who, as we were leaving, told me "I think I know you from somewhere." After spending a minute trying to put it together, he went "I think we was in jail together." I had to hold it together. The last thing I was expecting to hear was that someone knew me from jail. After, the nurses in the hall asked if I'd been to jail. "No. No, I've not." My training never prepared me for this.

Also, yeah. Highlight of the day was definitely the histology guys. Find yourself a job that you get as excited about as they do theirs, because dang. If you aren't excitedly showing off what you do to everyone that comes in, is it really worth doing?

Also, hey, by the way, if you're a nurse sending samples to the lab, please label them correctly. If you don't know how, ask us. We had to trash a urine sample because it had absolutely zero info on it and had to call for extra info on a bunch more. Ugh.

Alright, good first day. Tried to stick two patients. Missed on, but I was close. The vacuum tube system nearly blew up, so that was fun. (It didn't nearly blow up, but it did break in a very noisy way.) Good day.