#Qualified hospital

[pixlokita]

When you be disabled, making less money than the previous year and have the medical records to prove it and the government denies you insurance assistance because you don’t have kids …. wha….

[boszbichblitzo]

//I guess this counts as an early Munday lol my last run at our agility trial today 🙌

[permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88]

Y'all, I just had my new patient visit with the bone marrow transplant team today, and uh...

I'm...I'm a bit...overwhelmed

[liverpool-enjoyer]

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[rebellum]

Saw a post about a weird House episode and now I'm LITERALLY crying remembering the saddest fanfiction (or any fiction) I've EVER read that I read like 12 years ago where a traumatized little girl had to get the lethal injection because she bit someone and was part of a sapient non-human species that was legally considered the same as an animal

It was SO FUCKING sad

[whumpsmith-participates]

AI-less Whumptober 2024

Day 20 - "I'm absolutely not qualified for this shit."

Tags/CW: hospital setting, blood, chaos

Ryan had gotten so many warnings when he chose to pursue a career in nursing. He was warned it would be hard and thankless work. He was warned that the hours would be brutal in a desperate attempt to make up for the staff shortage. And he was warned that he wouldn't command the same respect as a doctor.

Ryan was ready to face it all.

Or so he thought.

It wasn't his first placement. Hands-on learning was very important, especially so close to graduating, and Ryan had always learned best by simply doing. Nothing could curb his enthusiasm, not even when the seasoned nurse who was supposed to show him around gave him a stern talking about how this was no school trip.

It wasn't his first placement, but it was his first placement in the Emergency Room.

Despite the daunting prospect, they were told that they would be eased into it. Beginning with a tour, showing them what tended to happen where, what the different areas were called, and where to find supplies that they would be undoubtedly ordered to fetch.

"I hope you kids can keep up with the pace, because in here, when you're told to run, you don't run like your life depends on it, you run like dozens of lives depend on it," the nurse in charge said.

Ryan noticed one of the girls in his group notably paling, probably intimidated by the whole speech. He didn't blame her. It sounded like they were headed into a war zone. Yet, when he looked around, it seemed to be mostly sutures, tummy aches, kidney stones, and he could've sworn he heard a patient loudly proclaim they fell on something.

"It'll be okay," he said quietly, giving the pale girl a nudge, "if it's like any of the other placements we'll probably start out doing the simple things; making beds, clerical stuff, I've even mopped floors if the staff shortage was bad enough."

"...I-I don't know how to mop floors!" the girl gasped in response.

"Oh...honey..."

Ryan wasn't sure what else to say. Luckily he didn't have to, as at that point some kind of buzzer went off, startling him and the two other newbies.

"That means we have multiple emergencies incoming!" the nurse in charge said, "you three stick with me, stay close, but don't get in the way!"

And that apparently concluded the tour, plunging them straight into work. The three nursing students felt like little ducklings trying to follow their mother duck whilst being blown all over the place by strong and sudden gusts of wind. Multiple people flocked towards the ambulance bay, and multiple people were shouting orders.

Ryan did his best to lock in, waiting for the nurse in charge to shout orders, knowing he only had to listen to her...until he had no other choice. As soon as the patients were rolled in, the three students were split up. Ryan vaguely caught something about a collision on a nearby junction and more patients being on their way, before he heard his own name and that of one of the doctors.

He located said doctor as he waved him over, and he quickly changed direction to help push the gurney to the right area so the doctor could assess and treat the worst injuries, while Ryan was instructed to stick all kinds of sensors on the poor young woman so they could track her vitals. He had to cut through her shirt and bra, quickly yanking part of the curtain closed for her modesty before pulling the fabric aside and finishing his job.

He relayed the measurements the machines took, to which the doctor decided what to do next and asked for the necessary kits. Fortunately Ryan remembered the kits were near that area, making it so he only had to run a short distance to retrieve the necessary items.

Even though it had started so suddenly, Ryan felt like he was doing quite well. He located his pale-looking fellow student and shot her an encouraging thumbs up while she was hanging a bag of fluids for her patient.

And then it all went to shit.

First, he noticed that his socks had gotten wet. As he looked down he found his patient was bleeding at such an alarming rate onto his shoes that it soaked through the canvas and into his socks. Only then did the machines start beeping in alarm as her blood pressure got dangerously low.

The buzzer for an incoming emergency rang again, the doctor cursing as he and Ryan feverishly tried to locate and plug where the woman was bleeding from. Of course, at that moment, one of the med students on that floor decided to faint, knocking over some equipment that set off another alarm, which forced the doctor to abandon Ryan to make sure that patient wouldn't die as well.

"Just hold pressure!" he said, before disappearing.

"Oh my God..." Ryan quietly said as he looked at the carnage around him, unable to assist anywhere as he was pretty sure his fingers were the only thing keeping his patient from bleeding out, "I'm absolutely not qualified for this shit."

@ailesswhumptober

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Ryan's rough awakening. He's more qualified now.

[xviruserrorx]

I really hate having to depend on people to get very very important things done

[imperpetuallylost]

kinda crazy but…

im gay for you

:o no way i’m also gay for u <3

[weirdsociology]

so Lights Out is pretty well written but it is... giving the most booktok white woman perspective imaginable. it tries to avoid being ableist and succeeds only in being vastly more ableist than if it had just let things be. and it has the Nurse thing. you know, the Nurse thing. where Nurses are in the profession because it's obviously a way to exert control over other people in a socially sanctioned way. it's terrifying how she thinks of herself and her patients but that is not at all meant to be the scary part of the book.

now i'm not finished and if it turns out the FMC comes to the realization that "hey turns out i'm a sociopath too just using my powers for 'good' in a medical context" a la Dexter then actually that's a neat way to do a character and i'll take it all back. but it seems. unlikely at best.

[lesenbyan]

there really is something completely demoralizing about literally starving for over a year bc i cannot work and dragging myself in for the few days i can manage and disability deciding I'm still capable of gainful employment

[deus-ex-mona]

i’m gonna be s o o o o annoying about chuucon come 12 june

[yourbuerokrat2]

does your username have any specific meaning to it?

Actually there is. I used to have a blog called 'yourbuerokrat' but then I kind of had a lot of trouble with my password and getting into the account so I made this one a couple of years back. It's a missspelled version of 'bureaucrat' because I actually first started having an active blog on tumblr when I started working in public administration. Working for the government, and no I will never say which country because I am sure it's that way in every country, is basically the quote from venture bros:

Hunter: What is all this namby-pamby feel bad about good wet work bullshit?! You're beyond good and evil, Superman! You work for the government.

And considering my job has been getting more boring, more soul-sucking and actually kind of morally questionable over the last two years I am trying and hopefully succeeding in retaking my high school diploma/my ged as an adult so I can get into nursing school or at least study/learn something that will actually be of benefit to someone.

The little robot is also related to my job because that is exactly how I feel most of the time. Not in a depressing way but some jobs can really make you feel like a machine.

So yes, my username is related to my current and, hopefully by next year former job.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I hadn’t mentioned it by name because I wasn’t sure if it was regional or not, but I found out it’s not regional so: Aetna is the worst insurance company. It sucks! Avoid it if you can. All my insurance issues have been because of Aetna. Aetna refuses to pay for my maintenance inhaler or my rescue inhaler, and refused to pay for a holter monitor for me when I’ve had tachycardia issues for a full decade. A heart monitor my doctor ordered to check if I had major electrical issues because if I did I’d need a pacemaker to prevent severe cardiac complications (I don’t have those issues, for the record).

[dreaminterlude]

it actually makes me so angry that people are not there for you the way you need them but in a way that wants to make them feel good

[widowshill]

reminder to myself to find and upload the article about the gendered enlightenment/scientific reason vs superstitious persecution in Carmilla and it’s resulting ambiguously supernatural narrative because. it’s so formative to the way I think and write about ds lmao it needs to be on some kind of blog syllabus.

[megandzane]

Some weirdo really tried to say Meghan mentioning harmful algorithms that promote eating disorders is void bc she’s skinny / didn’t keep the baby weight on after breastfeeding ???

People existing in their own bodies doesn’t cause eating disorders.

But the things Meghan mentioned, like predatory algorithms about diet culture and thinspo viewed by vulnerable folks can and do contribute / trigger it.