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I'm a registered nurse. I've worked in New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Florida, and now Oregon. As a travel nurse in Oregon, I get a 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. And people here make fun of the East Coast. They laugh and say, "Oh, how was it with your ratios? How was it with not getting to eat?" In Florida, I can tell you as a nurse, I was lucky to go seven or eight hours and maybe get a 30-minute break. I don't drink for six or eight hours. I don't have an opportunity to go pee and these are the expectations. This has been normalized for so long, and it's a considerable law. Why is it okay for us to not have lunch breaks? Why is it okay for us to run ourselves into the ground? Why is it okay for us to hide in the closet and shovel peanut butter and crackers and chuck a Gatorade so that we don't pass out while we're taking care of your family members? We need to fix this. We deserve to have breaks.Industry-Secrets-General-Public-Would-Be-Shocked-To-Know
I'm a registered nurse. I've worked in New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Florida, and now Oregon. As a travel nurse in Oregon, I get a 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. And people here make fun of the East Coast. They laugh and say, "Oh, how was it with your ratios? How was it with not getting to eat?" In Florida, I can tell you as a nurse, I was lucky to go seven or eight hours and maybe get a 30-minute break. I don't drink for six or eight hours. I don't have an opportunity to go pee and these are the expectations. This has been normalized for so long, and it's a considerable law. Why is it okay for us to not have lunch breaks? Why is it okay for us to run ourselves into the ground? Why is it okay for us to hide in the closet and shovel peanut butter and crackers and chuck a Gatorade so that we don't pass out while we're taking care of your family members? We need to fix this. We deserve to have breaks.
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If you don't use the word "wedding", that cake's gonna be a lot cheaper. I just helped the lady who kept calling it "birthday cake layers" and she saved about 50% on that cake.
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I was 19. I enrolled to gain a certification as an EMT. I followed that by busting my a**, sometimes literally, to somehow be qualified to save a person or their entire life's earnings from a fire. I then followed that by sacrificing a year of my life, or ~90/hrs a week between work/school to become a paramedic at age 23. I've been sh*t on, puked on, bled on. I've smelled the previously mentioned, I've smelled brains, which has it's own distinct smell. I've held body parts that have been detached moments before. I've shoved tubes down peoples throats so they may breathe, despite the number of gunshot wounds they received. I've performed CPR on infants. I did this for ~$13/hr. Firefighters, EMTs/Paramedics, and Police are not compensated nearly enough for what they experience.
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Learn how to stay calm, breathe and assess situations. This will help in so many future surprise situations. Be aware of your surroundings, exits, bathrooms and where medical/fire kits, where land-line phones are if they are around.lost40s reply
If you are alone and start choking, you can use the back of a chair or sofa to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on yourself. Source: had to do it to myself when I was about 15Sylvaintheg reply
If you’re ever feeling lightheaded and seeing stars, and just a general feeling of thinking you’re going to pass out. Lay on your back and put your legs in the air and take deep breaths in and out. The blood from your brain rushed down to your feet and doing this will rush it back to your head.
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My best friend is female we have been friends for 18 years, was out with a new gf and ran into NY friend at the mall. Friend hugged me and I introduced her and I though all was well until we got home. She freaked out and said she broke "girl code" and I wasn't allowed to talk to her anymore... side note she had male friends that I didn't freak out over, I pointed that out and she said "it's different, you're a guy" to which I said she has issues and this wasn't going to work out and I never looked back. I'm not throwing away a life long friend to appease a jealous girlfriend.
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When I had been the sole breadwinner for fifteen months (then-husband was physically and mentally healthy), deeply in debt, house was always filthy, hadn't hung out with my friends in a year, and hadn't been intimate for a few months. I was standing on a chair tying a noose to an I-beam in the basement when it occurred to me that I was basically letting this guy kill me. So I walked instead.Show All 23 Upvotes
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If you don't use the word "wedding", that cake's gonna be a lot cheaper. I just helped the lady who kept calling it "birthday cake layers" and she saved about 50% on that cake.Industry-Secrets-General-Public-Would-Be-Shocked-To-Know
I'm a registered nurse. I've worked in New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Florida, and now Oregon. As a travel nurse in Oregon, I get a 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute breaks. And people here make fun of the East Coast. They laugh and say, "Oh, how was it with your ratios? How was it with not getting to eat?" In Florida, I can tell you as a nurse, I was lucky to go seven or eight hours and maybe get a 30-minute break. I don't drink for six or eight hours. I don't have an opportunity to go pee and these are the expectations. This has been normalized for so long, and it's a considerable law. Why is it okay for us to not have lunch breaks? Why is it okay for us to run ourselves into the ground? Why is it okay for us to hide in the closet and shovel peanut butter and crackers and chuck a Gatorade so that we don't pass out while we're taking care of your family members? We need to fix this. We deserve to have breaks. S • upvoted 7 items 2 weeks ago
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