The hospital provides phones and has us use Teams for remote meetings and other communication. Official patient information is always recorded through Epic/Haiku. Since the majority of the staff is in the field, they'll use Teams to communicate throughout the day for staffing updates and to notify us of deaths - particularly helpful if you're me driving to the patients house and planning on giving them a massage lol.
Duranie
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I work in hospice making home visits, and yesterday was a bad day. Sucks when you're out making visits and missing notifications about change in patient conditions and death notifications. Before Teams they used a paging system that was glitchy, but everyone understood it was shit so there was an additional level of contact to ensure workers got relevant info when needed. Yesterday half the day went by before people realized the system was fucked.
I just ran out and needed more. Thank you for reminding me of this!
Those parents are retirement age and the "child" is balding with a comb over.
"cheesy vanilla flavor with bits of corn"
That is seriously not helping lol. I will concede though that it could be one of those things better tasting than you would imagine. Like the first time I tried the off the cob version of elote (Mexican Street corn.) A cup of hot corn with mayo, cheese, and chili powder? I thought it sounded bizarre at the time but holy shit - I ate the hell out of it and wanted more lol.
Thank God that responsible people who only have the number of children they can afford never experience unexpected life changes! It's almost like an invisible dome protects them to keep them healthy and financially stable until adulthood. /s
Shit happens. Being less judgemental of others makes life easier and happier for those around you AND yourself, plus it's free!
Weird. I work in hospice. We somewhat regularly get patients signing in because of COVID/COVID effects, but I can't recall the last time someone signed in because they had "really bad flu." It's almost like one is still significantly worse to get.
Mushrooms are natural, but choose wrong and you'll have a very bad day.
"to my understanding most cards in the US are credit cards"
This statement confuses me a bit, but I guess that adds to the misunderstanding? Debit and credit cards are tied to different types of accounts. Which you're using depends on if you have the money and want it immediately removed from your checking account, or if you want to "borrow" and pay the total once a month.
When I helped my sons open their first checking accounts and got their debit cards, we had to "opt in" to not allow overdrafts and to have purchases cancelled, but that option would expire once they hit a certain age and would have to select it again. The backup to that is if you have a savings account, the accounts can be linked so that if you were to overdraft, the extra would be taken from savings to prevent overdraft fees.
These are all great things, assuming you have money in the first place. If you believe Americans are using credit cards more often than debit, it's probably 1) because CC companies incentivize us to do so, or 2) people just generally don't have the money to meet their needs in the first place, so juggle and borrow funds as they try to keep their heads above water.
I know someone like that. This is just one of the reasons that I divorced him.
A titer test can check for immunity. I started working at a hospital late 2019 and they drew blood to test for certain immunities. At 48 years old I discovered that contrary to what my mother said, I indeed did have chicken pox at some time in my life lol. Also due to a slightly incomplete record, I ended up with some boosters - MMR being one of them.
I mean, it's hospice lol. I work with some of the most compassionate, respectful, and caring people I could ever hope to work with. We also tend to have a macabre sense of humor. 🥴