u/Lynkern

Hi! I’ve been a nurse for 7 years (6 years LPN, 1 year RN) and I just scored my first job in a new hospital system, on a telemetry unit full time overnights! I’m excited to start this new unexpected journey, as I am a huge cardiac patient myself (multiple open heart surgeries, multiple pacemaker surgeries, mechanical aortic valve on warfarin!) and cardiac intrigues me.

That being said, I start general orientation in two weeks and I’m beyond excited! But I’m very nervous, as cardiac/telemetry can be hard for me and I only have exposure from nursing school (I did mostly LTC/rehab as an LPN, medical floor and LTC/rehab as an RN).

Any tips for me? I’m open to anything. My floor is very dedicated to helping their staff learn and I’m happy about that. But I wanna get a head-start!

🫀

Does anyone else struggle with this? It’s like my entire identity and life is revolved around it. I’ve been a nurse for 7 years ago and I’m just sick of it. I’m tired of seeing it, hearing about it, working 5 days a week, etc. I just wanna work and come home.

I love being a nurse, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just…. Over it.

Living in the Essex area, grew up here and have been here all my life. Looking into the gay scene around here. Kind of nervous, but want to open up a little. Are there any areas around the Essex, Middlesex and Boston areas to hang out and just meet fellow gay guys?

Thanks 😊

I moved from NH back to MA, and I’m looking to go back to the hospital to work night shift again. My past two jobs I’ve done LTC/rehab management and my mental health has taken a huge deep dive, with the fact that I’m consistently having to fix other people’s mistakes and dealing with staff that just doesn’t want to learn. I’m so over it. And I just can’t do day shift. I did nights as an LPN for 6 years and did my first 6 months as a hospital RN overnight too.

Just ranting and seeing how others feel. Has anyone dealt with something similar? I thought I really wanted to go back to SNF, and I did, but it’s just procedurally broken and my heart is broken working for an extremely cheap company with no morals.

I live in the Greater Boston area so I have many options around me… wish me luck 🙏🏻

Does anyone know if they’re adding more options for windowed and full screen modes in 1.0? I have a huge monitor, but windowed doesn’t stretch all the way and is too small, but full screen stretches it very weirdly…

Thanks!

Hi! I have an opportunity as a home health nurse. I’ve mostly done LTC/rehab both as an LPN and RN. Some med-surg experience after I got my RN. Anything I need to know? I gotta get out of this Rehab Unit Manager position, it is literally eating me alive… I know home health is much more open and you make your schedule. I won’t speak on my opportunity, but it will be happening. Are there any videos I can watch online to “learn” how to be a home health nurse, learn about OASIS, etc?

Thank you!

I noticed in all of my apps and stuff (I’ve deleted most since they’re all disappointment…) no one prefers skinny/twinks, but all prefer muscular/chubby/bear. It seems all of the former all prefer each other. Twinks like me are just left with no one and no hits or likes or anything 🧍🏻at this point I’m just trying to make friends at this point but no one will even talk to me. I don’t know what to do anymore…

I started as a CNA, then LPN in LTC and rehab. Got my RN and did a medical hospital floor for 5 months. Almost kms’d. Went back to be an ADON in a SNF, and I just got another job at another place as a rehab unit manager for more money. I’m making over $100k now.

How do you guys feel about nursing homes? It seems like everyone will only do the hospital or bust, but I started out in LTC and just have continued to love it along with rehab for the past almost ten years as a nurse. The funding sucks, the nursing and aide quality sucks, I’m constantly educating and doing everyone else’s work, but something about the homey atmosphere keeps me stuck in like glue.

How do you guys feel about nursing homes/LTC/rehab?

I’m a new unit manager on a rehab unit in a SNF, and previously I was an ADON/IP/SDC in a SNF.

There are a lot of things unknown to me, especially about MDS, why we do certain assessments, certain terms and lingo too.

Are there any crash courses or tips to learn this stuff?

I started off as a CNA, LPN and now RN all in SNF and I feel like I have a lot to learn, considering a lot of my work was overnights.

Thanks!

This post may seem odd. I currently use a Switch1 Prop Controller for my PC, but it will NOT stay connected through Bluetooth and I have to reconnect it every time it turns off.

I need a PC gaming remote that will either let me change the buttons PHYSICALLY (Even if I have to open it myself, like I did my Steam Deck) or one that has a Nintendo-style button layout instead of Xbox. I just cannot use an Xbox-styled layout, I just grew up with Nintendo and I need that layout specifically.

I prefer wireless, Bluetooth is nice but clearly unreliable... It needs to be able to just be turned on with a button press and easy on the hands to use. I've tried so many on Amazon but they just don't fit my needs, especially with the buttons.

I will pay any price for this. Thank you!!

This post may seem odd. I currently use a Switch1 Prop Controller for my PC, but it will NOT stay connected through Bluetooth and I have to reconnect it every time it turns off.

I need a PC gaming remote that will either let me change the buttons PHYSICALLY (Even if I have to open it myself, like I did my Steam Deck) or one that has a Nintendo-style button layout instead of Xbox. I just cannot use an Xbox-styled layout, I just grew up with Nintendo and I need that layout specifically.

I prefer wireless, Bluetooth is nice but clearly unreliable... It needs to be able to just be turned on with a button press and easy on the hands to use. I've tried so many on Amazon but they just don't fit my needs, especially with the buttons.

I will pay any price for this. Thank you!!

I’m a new RN Unit Manager for a rehab/skilled floor at a facility. My friend helped me get the job, as she’s a cart nurse on the LTC floor, and I just left an ADON (RN) job, and I have been a supervisor my entirety of my 6 years as an LPN.

I’m working on cleaning up, getting rid of old paperwork that is useless, outdated and needs to be updated. This weekend I brought home the blank copy book to clean it up, it had years-old stuff and multiple plastic sheets of the same copies. Condensed that down nicely. I also plan on bringing in snacks, pens, food etc for my floor, as it helps boost morale. I’ve been here for two weeks, my first week the state was in, and my second week was my first full week on the floor, the second day I was on the cart.

I’ve also already made new report sheets for the nurses, and I am working on the CNA assignment sheets tonight.

Any tips from nurses, CNAs, and other nursing management? This is my first time running a single floor, as I ran the entirety of the facility I was an ADON at.

Thank you! 😊

I have been listening to Billie’s first EP, and discovered party favor (amazing!!!) but more importantly, watch. It’s so powerful. It changed my life, literally. It’s so empowering overall, it’s so motivational!

“Now I’m free.” 😭❤️ No one will ever extinguish her fire.

How do you guys feel about watch?

This might seem weird to others… but I’ve always came so much. I’m a shooter. Like, 4+ft when fully loaded.

I’ve been like this since day one. I just jerked off and I got all messy everywhere. Even when sitting it shoots so far in the air to the point where it hits my face. When I lay down and jerk off if it’s been days I cum up my chest, on/in my mouth and it’s eve hit the headboard and back of the wall before. It’s nuts!!! It’s kinda cool but lowkey gross.

My bf likes it when I cum a lot in him, but otherwise when I jerk off over him it shoots all over hit body, again, even over his head. Like wtf?

Anyone else have this “issue”? 😂

2019- $23.50/hr - New grad LPN, nursing home floor nurse on nights
2020-2021- ~same
2022- ~$20/hr - doctor’s office LPN (for 3 months)
2022- $~39hr - went back to same nursing home on 12 hour overnight shifts
2023- $~37/hr 3-11 LPN supervisor
2024- $39(I think?) weekend LPN supervisor as I went to RN school

Feb 2025- $50/hr - agency LPN (3-11 and 11-7)

~May 2025- Graduated RN school~

June 2025- $40/hr on a medical floor in a hospital
December 2025- left hospital and did connected neurology floor- $32.50/hr

January 2026- ADON/IP/SDC/UM- $99k/year
Left due to physical and emotional safety

To start: May 2026- Unit Manager- $106k

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Am I on the right trajectory? I was an LPN for 6 years, and now about a year as an RN. I’m essentially making $53/hr. I was in NH for my hospital and neurology office jobs, now back in MA where I started as an LPN and started the ADON job. It’s been rough but I feel like I’ve come far. It I still feel like it’s not enough 🫩😔

I’m 3/10 classes into my BSN but for now I haven’t continued due to my last job being too hectic. I will go back eventually but as of now my current goals don’t exactly need it.

Any insight from anyone? I love the nursing home but it can be a lot. Eventually I may wanna jump into case management WFH jobs. I’m just not sure where to go from here.

I don’t know how to word this, really. But when I’m having sex, I get hard. Not as hard as I used to get, but somewhat hard. I am I think about 6in if not more fully hard. When I am hard, I can’t seem to cum anymore. I have to jerk off for a long time, hold my breath until I get dizzy, and then I’ll finally cum. Sometimes I still don’t even get fully hard in this process.

I haven’t jerked off to porn much in the past few months. But, I noticed when I do watch porn, I cum/climax extremely fast, to the point where sometimes I’m not even hard at all. When this happens, I tend to be very softly hard. Aka, not far from soft. The cum is usually not very good, it tends to be unfulfilling and not a true, extreme orgasm. When I orgasm while hard, holding my breath, it tends to be very extreme.

My problem is that when I’m having sex, I stay hard or at least somewhat hard for the most part. I’m a top. When I do it, I tend to just keep fucking and not really… feeling anything. I try to make myself feel something by slamming onto the person hard and fast, but still to no avail really feel anything. The only way I can truly climax while having sex is after the act for awhile, I have to lay down, out of breath, jerk off until I’m close, and then continue, cum on top of the person, or cum inside of them (which is when I tend to get my hardest inside someone). But even the act of stopping masturbating to climb on top of them to jerk off on top of them or put myself inside of them makes me lose my feeling and sometimes I have to lay back down AGAIN to try to do it all over again.

I’ve started having sex when I was 20, and it didn’t seem to be a problem then. I’m 31 now, and it’s gotten progressively to this point.

I have major depressive disorder, haphazardly treated at the moment. On antidepressants and other psych meds for other conditions. I know that these conditions can affect sex drive and ability to orgasm. However, even with me being off of my antidepressant, I still have these problems. I also have heart issues, to boot.

I have minimal sex drive, although it seems to be getting better. I’m starting to wonder if I have an ED/orgasming problem on top of the possibility of antidepressant-induced sex issues.

Fellow gay bros, does anyone else deal with this? It’s been driving me crazy for years and I can’t take it anymore. I can’t even have sex with my boyfriend much anymore because of this. I used to be able to cum inside of him all the time, sometimes even more than once a day. But now…. Nothing. I know this isn’t a doctor/nurse Reddit, but I want input from fellow gay people.

😔

I feel so fucking empty inside. I had an instant connection with him, we talked for an hour just sitting in the car together. My awkward self putting myself down, as usual. He was so sweet, handsome and nice. We connected on work-level and personal levels a lot. He’s in an open marriage himself. He wanted me to fuck his brains out. I don’t know if it’s just me, but being romantic and sweet is in my nature. I don’t know how people instantly jump straight into fucking a hole. I didn’t like doing it in a car either. I felt so dirty. Every time I tried to kiss him, and when I did kiss him it was a tiny peck and I just felt so emotionally unwanted. I know it’s not a hookup requirement but to me, it is.

I wanna cry. I just feel so fucking gross and disgusting and dirty and like I betrayed by bf even though we’re in a consented open relationship. The sex sucked honestly, and I rammed him so hard my penis hurts and neither of us even came. Like wtf is wrong with me. I almost cried on the way home. I’m just sitting on my couch in the dark while my bf is sleeping upstairs after I got home a half hour ago.

I don’t know how I’m gonna move past this. Why do I keep wanting men to be friends and fwb with and nothing feels right, every time???? All I want is an emotional connection with a man that’s not my partner. Why am I the only one who seems to know what I want in a person? No one else can fulfill it?

I feel so gross and empty. 😭😢

PS: Fucking in cars feels so fucking disgusting and dirty. It hurts and it’s awkward and I don’t know why people do it willingly. Never again.