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I just quit my job at Disneyland. While there, I wasn't allowed to talk about it. This site wasn't specifically mentioned, but social media was contractually prohibited. It occurred to me that being forbidden from talking about it never made any difference at this site. No one here talks about their jobs. I know that Nancy is a nurse and someone else is a teacher, I forget who, but I don't have the faintest idea what the rest of you people do for a living. Does anyone want to share?
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I'm mostly retired now from the O.R. I don't work in the surgical rooms anymore. I come in on Monday about 1 pm until 3:30 pm and put away loose suture and do the inventory and order more suture (about $5000 worth every week) Then I come back on Wednesday afternoon for about an hour and a half to put the order up once it comes in, put loose suture away, check on back orders, and I also keep up with a couple other products in the supply room and order them as needed. I still have to maintain my competencies like CPR and yearly evaluation and get a flu shot and TB tested just like everybody else. Depending on how I feel in 3 years I may retire completely when I turn 65. We're not supposed to talk about specifics on social media, like say patients' names or post photos of operations. That should go without saying, but you never know with some people!
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Hailey! Will you be staying there or coming back to the US?
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oobu24:
Hailey! Will you be staying there or coming back to the US?
My second job gradually evolved into my main job, so I'll be here for a while. If I move anywhere in the near future, it would probably be Israel. That might never happen, but I don't see myself back in the US, back in the US, back in the US of A any time soon.
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Nancy R:
I'm mostly retired now from the O.R. I don't work in the surgical rooms anymore. I come in on Monday about 1 pm until 3:30 pm and put away loose suture and do the inventory and order more suture (about $5000 worth every week) Then I come back on Wednesday afternoon for about an hour and a half to put the order up once it comes in, put loose suture away, check on back orders, and I also keep up with a couple other products in the supply room and order them as needed. I still have to maintain my competencies like CPR and yearly evaluation and get a flu shot and TB tested just like everybody else. Depending on how I feel in 3 years I may retire completely when I turn 65. We're not supposed to talk about specifics on social media, like say patients' names or post photos of operations. That should go without saying, but you never know with some people!
:I'm assuming you've handled a lot of needles. What's the deal with air bubbles? In movies, they always spray out a lot of liquid before shooting someone up, but I've never seen anyone ever do that in person. I'm guessing that's just one of those movie things that don't make sense, like everyone holding guns with their fingers on the trigger. Wouldn't any air bubble that makes it through a needle be too small to make a difference anyway?
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HaileyMcComet:
oobu24:
Hailey! Will you be staying there or coming back to the US?
My second job gradually evolved into my main job, so I'll be here for a while. If I move anywhere in the near future, it would probably be Israel. That might never happen, but I don't see myself back in the US, back in the US, back in the US of A any time soon.
Well good luck with your new full time job.
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Thanks. The only downside is that I can't get into Disneyland for free anymore.
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
I'm mostly retired now from the O.R. I don't work in the surgical rooms anymore. I come in on Monday about 1 pm until 3:30 pm and put away loose suture and do the inventory and order more suture (about $5000 worth every week) Then I come back on Wednesday afternoon for about an hour and a half to put the order up once it comes in, put loose suture away, check on back orders, and I also keep up with a couple other products in the supply room and order them as needed. I still have to maintain my competencies like CPR and yearly evaluation and get a flu shot and TB tested just like everybody else. Depending on how I feel in 3 years I may retire completely when I turn 65. We're not supposed to talk about specifics on social media, like say patients' names or post photos of operations. That should go without saying, but you never know with some people!
:I'm assuming you've handled a lot of needles. What's the deal with air bubbles? In movies, they always spray out a lot of liquid before shooting someone up, but I've never seen anyone ever do that in person. I'm guessing that's just one of those movie things that don't make sense, like everyone holding guns with their fingers on the trigger. Wouldn't any air bubble that makes it through a needle be too small to make a difference anyway?
We don't spray out "a lot of liquid" but we do make sure that there is virtually no air in the syringe by slowly injecting the liquid through the syringe while holding it with the needle straight up. A small amount of air (bubble or two) in an IV tube wouldn't kill you, but a long length of air in the tube would. So if you're in the hospital and on an IV, and you notice the IV bag is empty, call the nurse immediately and/or shut off the IV by using the roller to clamp it shut. Or if somebody injected a large syringe of only air, which I just saw on TV show, that would kill you.
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Does everybody else hate their job so much they don't want to talk about it?
I know, you don't want to give out TMI about yourselves. That's okay. "It's allowed" as Linda would say! 
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I work for an IT firm.
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Nancy R:
We don't spray out "a lot of liquid" but we do make sure that there is virtually no air in the syringe by slowly injecting the liquid through the syringe while holding it with the needle straight up. A small amount of air (bubble or two) in an IV tube wouldn't kill you, but a long length of air in the tube would. So if you're in the hospital and on an IV, and you notice the IV bag is empty, call the nurse immediately and/or shut off the IV by using the roller to clamp it shut. Or if somebody injected a large syringe of only air, which I just saw on TV show, that would kill you.
If the IV runs out, you could die? Why isn't that in more movies? That seems like an easier way to murder someone than to smother them with a pillow.
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paulfan11:
I work for an IT firm.
If you were a character from that Silicone Valley show, which one would you be?
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Nancy R:
Does everybody else hate their job so much they don't want to talk about it?
I know, you don't want to give out TMI about yourselves. That's okay. "It's allowed" as Linda would say! I wouldn't expect a lot of people to talk about work. According to most polls, most people do hate their jobs. It's pretty sad when you think about it. But it's not hard to talk about without giving too much detail. My roommate is an English teacher. She can tell horror stories about her job all day and you'd never know where she worked. I may have given the exact location of where I used to work, but I don't work there anymore, so if anyone comes gunning for me, I won't be there.
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
We don't spray out "a lot of liquid" but we do make sure that there is virtually no air in the syringe by slowly injecting the liquid through the syringe while holding it with the needle straight up. A small amount of air (bubble or two) in an IV tube wouldn't kill you, but a long length of air in the tube would. So if you're in the hospital and on an IV, and you notice the IV bag is empty, call the nurse immediately and/or shut off the IV by using the roller to clamp it shut. Or if somebody injected a large syringe of only air, which I just saw on TV show, that would kill you.
If the IV runs out, you could die? Why isn't that in more movies? That seems like an easier way to murder someone than to smother them with a pillow.
Yes, but most IVs are on pumps that alarm if the bag runs out. And the nurses keep a watch over them if they're not on a pump. That's one of the reasons I can't stand to watch fictional medical shows - they make so many errors! Like no masks on at the scrub sinks, pushing patients down the hall head first instead of feet first (sometimes), having severely injured patients only on nasal cannula oxygen instead of intubated, etc. Drives me nuts! Don't these shows have technical advisors? (FYI, they do, but they are either stupid or ignored)
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HaileyMcComet:
paulfan11:
I work for an IT firm.
If you were a character from that Silicone Valley show, which one would you be?
Not sure, I've never watched this show!
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Nancy R:
Yes, but most IVs are on pumps that alarm if the bag runs out. And the nurses keep a watch over them if they're not on a pump. That's one of the reasons I can't stand to watch fictional medical shows - they make so many errors! Like no masks on at the scrub sinks, pushing patients down the hall head first instead of feet first (sometimes), having severely injured patients only on nasal cannula oxygen instead of intubated, etc. Drives me nuts! Don't these shows have technical advisors? (FYI, they do, but they are either stupid or ignored)
Some of those mistakes are on purpose. You don't always want your actors delivering their lines with a mask on their mouths. In the early days of M*A*S*H, CBS didn't want them to use masks in the OR. There was a lot of dialogue in those OR scenes and the network thought the audience would get confused if they couldn't see who was saying what. Luckily, the producers refused to shoot OR scenes without surgical masks.
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paulfan11:
HaileyMcComet:
If you were a character from that Silicone Valley show, which one would you be?
Not sure, I've never watched this show!
I think it's called Silicon Valley. That was either a Freudian slip on my part, or I just assumed it was a series about the porn industry. It's HBO, after all.
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Nancy, does "Grey's Anatomy" make those mistakes you described? Hailey, you didn't actually tell us about your jobs, what you do at them.
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HaileyMcComet:
Nancy R:
Yes, but most IVs are on pumps that alarm if the bag runs out. And the nurses keep a watch over them if they're not on a pump. That's one of the reasons I can't stand to watch fictional medical shows - they make so many errors! Like no masks on at the scrub sinks, pushing patients down the hall head first instead of feet first (sometimes), having severely injured patients only on nasal cannula oxygen instead of intubated, etc. Drives me nuts! Don't these shows have technical advisors? (FYI, they do, but they are either stupid or ignored)
Some of those mistakes are on purpose. You don't always want your actors delivering their lines with a mask on their mouths. In the early days of M*A*S*H, CBS didn't want them to use masks in the OR. There was a lot of dialogue in those OR scenes and the network thought the audience would get confused if they couldn't see who was saying what. Luckily, the producers refused to shoot OR scenes without surgical masks.
Yeah, I know the reason they choose to keep the masks off or down in some scenes, but there are other mistakes too numerous to mention that they make.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Nancy, does "Grey's Anatomy" make those mistakes you described? Hailey, you didn't actually tell us about your jobs, what you do at them.
I only watched Grey's Anatomy once - the episode with the big shootout in the hospital. I suppose they have made plenty of mistakes over the years. I did watch every episode of M*A*S*H though! I was an RN the last couple years it was on. Great show!
