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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

in interview season we interviewed ~35 candidates and 10 of them told the *exact* same clinical scenario when asked to give an example of something.... obviously AI prepped....so unnerving honestly

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Feeling very discouraged & Honestly betrayed. Have been fighting for change in my unit for years. Finally get into a position where I can speak to the issues and problems and another unit is taking my idea and doing it but we are not. Manager doesn't want to make waves.

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

my grandma has started experiencing hearing loss (she's 97 and this is new, suspect related to her hospital stay earlier this year tbh 🫠) and getting frustrated by not hearing my family. I visited her and I'm using a deeper and louder voice automatically and she can hear me fine...but not

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

You'd deserve a sainthood after having all your teeth pulled and shattered!

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

September 1990 - despite almost a decade of AIDS activism and tens of thousands of deaths, citizen activists are still accused of 'social hysteria'

Archived NYT op Ed story from September 1990 by James Brudner, analyst at the City of New York and member of ACT Up: "RECENTLY, AIDS activists have come under attack from individuals within the medical research establishment and on Capitol Hill.
Dismissing legitimate criticism of AIDS research as "social hysteria," these members of the medical and policy establishment question the validity of any analysis by nonscientists. They allege AIDS research is siphoning off funds that could be used to fight other diseases.
In doing so, they ignore mounting evidence that the research establishment is failing in its effort to combat AIDS, as a Presidential commission recently concluded. They also distort and trivialize the activist agenda."

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I try to be sympathetic bc I know it's not fair to judge by my standard & that everyone's job has boring and annoying and frustrating things but listening to my spouse vent endlessly about how bored he is or his colleague like didn't answer an email or something....the well of sympathy hath run dry

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

whatever I paid for my EMT class I think I made up for in savings at Michaels

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

bored by billionaires pretending free medical school would be revolutionary...make social work & education degrees free & then let's see what's up

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

my work friend "I can't get off Halloween which sucks bc it's like a religious holiday for me" me "oh I know a high priestess who can give you a note if you want!" work friend:

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a baby with white eyes is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

ALT: a baby with white eyes is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

had to clean out our lockers for a big pest thing and I have shit in here I haven't looked at since 2020....mindfuck pulling out a mask and a paper bag from underneath everything I stg

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

just spoke with an old friend whose spouse died in the ICU recently and I feel so incredibly guilty. apparently his husband was in ICU for a month. he described everything to me and said he was going to text me so many times & didn't bc he didn't want to put that burden on me when I was clocked out

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

imagine if we could have begun curing cancer if we had put the same amount of time and money and energy into helping people with AIDS..

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

twice now I have had the weird hapstance to care for both the anonymous/deceased organ donor and one of their recipients, and I was amazed at the coincidence the first time, but feel like it was fate the second. I cried during the honor walk for this donor (they weren't my patient at the time)

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

my boss came & thanked me for going to a protest & I am just..have to sit with the fact that merely saying I did not agree with trump in 2018 earned me a huge target on my back almost lost my job. I was refused when I asked to go to nurses day at the capitol because "you're TOO political."

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

No Kings Day in Austin ...20K strong 0 arrests We the People dissent!!

a photo of a protest crowd on the state capitol grounds in Austin, TX

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

at the magnet conference and 1.) don't know how I got selected for this 2.) impressed by the lack of Reality some of these nurse managers live in 3.) the chokehold the cheesecake factory has on my coworkers must be studied...pls let us eat anywhere else...

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

knowing the tail number of your flight nurse friend's helicopter, following a patient coming to you on the radar & realizing you get to see your friend soon 💕

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Powerful ✊ 🔥 ✊

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

one of the CTICU nurses just wandered over looking for something to do and announced he had finished Facebook and reels ...we are all in awe of him

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

a college friend I haven't seen in over a decade posted a pic on FB including a close up of his hands. His fingertips are really clubbed (looked back at old photos and they were not in the past) kinda wondering if I should say something. but don't want to make him self-conscious..

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I'm so exhausted of fighting the continual uphill battles with these people who are so convinced that just because we've always done it this way that it should continue even though it isn't fair to the nurses or the pts. probably going to get fired from this email I just sent to the ICU director 🙃

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

had a great time at NTI this year...I really appreciated the New Orleans culture & hospitality being incorporated so much into the events ♥️🎭🎉 Now we got a do a long drive back to Texas....sad day lol

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

in NOLA for NTI with some nurse friends ! 3rd year in a row we went together (this time driving from TX) 🎉

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

wishing very intensely for the good ol days where a coworker could just give me a IV fluid bolus and it would not be a career ender 💀

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

it's very sad-millennialcore of me but I am a little saddened that for some reason bluesky won't let me post any gifs???

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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 07/04/2025

It's really cool how I work 60+ hours per week and now am being told to just grow and harvest my own food and sew my own clothes on top of that.

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I want the travel monitor attachments they have on the Pitt ...we just balance them on the pts half the time 😩

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’m struggling with how many people in their 30s and younger have zero understanding of what HIV did to the world. And that it’s not gone. And that the only things containing it *in any way* are publicly-funded programs that have now been defunded and stripped of experts.

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

an odd thing about cvicu at my hospital: pretty much all of night shift is short, and all of day shift is very tall

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

everyone: "watch the pitt it's soooo realistic and good" me: nobody is allowed to linger wistfully on the helipad bc we all make jokes about jumping and nobody is going to respond with sincerity but okay. also thank u 3 second flashback for emulating my own cvd PTSD

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I hate to say it but I'm starting to think that a lot of these surgeons need to consult the intensivists and stop playing like they understand how to properly manage medical problems. signed, a nurse exhausted from yet another night of begging for vent adjustments as the pt declines

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

the educator: please catch up and rate your orientee at a low score if that's what you feel her performance is me: *gives her a 3/4* orientee: *grabs book halfway through the shift and looks at her scores* oh so what you don't think I'm at a 4 ??? 😩

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Her name is Maria Margarita Rojas. Texas arrested a Latina midwife for performing abortions, and Ken Paxton is counting on us not caring because she isn’t white.

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

wonder if nursing will start utilizing pocus as much as pre hospital seems to be pushing for it (at least according to these ceus lol)

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

me over here plotting to kick the nest as soon as I get thru this thing I need next week 😇

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

There is literally no way to replace bedside nursing and one of the single biggest themes in our broken healthcare system is that many of our problems are a result of undervaluing bedside nurses

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

just had to send An Email and I'm not ready for the fallout 😭

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Fentanyl expert here! This is correct

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

okay I just heard about a nurse I work with refusing a patient for very silly reasons & we suspect it was bc the patient is trans.. I'm glad the pt won't have her care for them but I'm fucking furious with this attitude. you can care for murders and rapists but not a LGBTQ person???

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

you have 3 IVs: an ultrasound guided 20g in the upper bicep, a forearm 18g, and a leaky 24g in the hand. Why in all that is frickin holy would you put your norepi in that hand IV. WHY.

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I guess I should no longer care for a severely injured *trauma* patient - in partnership with *trauma* surgeons - using Advanced *Trauma* Life Support principles and training. 🤦‍♀️

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Dr. bird 🌻 | Inspiring Change @bbiiirdbphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

You cannot be widely accepted for your integrity in a world of people who lack it. And it is still worth it to walk in it 🌻🐦‍⬛

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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Something I find increasingly troubling on IG is the prevalence of accounts pushing MLM scams. What’s even more troubling is many of the owners of these accounts trade on their professional credentials (as a doctor or professor, perhaps), and target vulnerable people like single mums.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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ocallanurse @ocallanurse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

training properly is so freaking hard. I'm emotionally drained. and my orientee keeps going "omg you must be so bored bc I'm doing everything!" girl I would so much rather just be to myself w my own pts instead of constantly having to balance when I should step in or not & ur feelings over this lol

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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

ACIP—the external CDC advisory committee for US vaccine policy—is not meeting next week, as scheduled. This is a big deal; Americans rely on up-to-date information about eff. and safety of vaccines to make evidence-based decisions. We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…

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