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This is a blog about a zucchini grown on the International Space Station in 2012, written from the perspective of the zucchini. Enjoy.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/letters/2012/04/03/post_1333471169633/

metagorgon

My roots are not hermetically sealed in this bag, they have access to gas exchange with the cabin air.  My roots are thus exposed in this transparent bag, naked to the universe.  Embarrassed, it took me a few days to get over the idea that anyone can see my roots without any dirt covering them.

My gardener fusses with my leaves.  I am not sure if I like that.  I now have four and I do not quite understand why he behaves this way.  He sticks his nose up against them.  Does he take me for some sort of a handkerchief?  Apparently he takes pleasure in my earthy green smell.  There is nothing like the smell of living green in this forest of engineered machinery.  I see the resultant smile.  Maybe this is one of my roles as a crewmember on this expedition.

I have a call sign.  I guess a call sign is a fighter pilot thing and was surprised that I could earn such a title.  At first someone suggested “Four-Leaf”.  I was a bit embarrassed when I heard this since I still only sport four leaves and feel a bit sensitive to this fact.  My gardener intervened and said that would not do.  He gave me my call sign – “Rose”.

My gardener made special arrangements for a two way video conference with a special Earth-flower.  When all the arrangements had been made, he took me from my window and placed me center stage in front of the video camera.  She was a very attractive flower all neatly dressed.  He said to her, “I can not offer you much; I can only give you a space zucchini.”  The image of my orange blossom was beamed across the void between spacecraft and Earth.  Her heart melted.  I felt as much a rose as any rose could ever be.

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Behind this zucchini is a deeply frustrated romance novelist. 

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jaimelannistre

“But here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore, and everything changes once again.”

— Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 75: Through the Narrow Place (via ghostqueenofthesun)

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I need to figure out how to emotionally deal with the anger of nurses

I would have to say that the majority of nurses don’t direct their hostility toward pharmacists. Probably only 15% of them seem to have an underlying rage toward my profession. But given the ratio of nurses to pharmacists, this means that every workday, I have a lot of my coworkers screaming at me.

I truly believe that making the nurse’s job smoother, less confusing, and more efficient is absolutely vital to good patient care. I want appropriate drugs to be immediately available to the nurse and for the administration instructions to be intuitive for him or her. It’s distressing to me that something isn’t working for the nurse on the phone with me.

The other problem is in how I’ve never met a nurse who is aware of the requirements of my job and that’s just not easy to fix. For instance:

  • Prospective drug review: this is legally required of pharmacists for every order. If I were to skip it, I would be in violation of the law and I would be breaking my pharmacist’s oath. If I were to receive an order and immediately dispense that exact drug, I would not be doing my job.
  • Sterile processing: this part always confuses me. Nurses are aware of sterile procedures for sterile fields and how long it takes to enter a sterile room. Why do I get an angry phone call about a compounded infusion five minutes after the order is placed? The tech isn’t even done sterilizing the hood yet.

I can’t fix the ignorance problem in the moment. I will always have nurses angry at me. It’s still important for me to work hard to make their jobs easier if I can safely do so.

It just takes an emotional toll on me with every shift, the fact that I talk with 10-20 coworkers every shift who think I’m basically unimportant to the whole patient care system and that I exist to make their lives harder. I need to learn how to care about them while shaking off their anger toward me.

Any thoughts would be appreciated, especially since I’ll be taking care of the operating rooms later on this week. Especially thoughts from nurses since I know that the majority of nurses do not have the underlying hostility toward pharmacists!

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My Library Collections Professor Has Made A Terrible Mistake

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She doesn’t know it yet, but she will soon. You see, the midterm paper on calls for students to write a collection evaluation for a library of our choosing. Now, I know that when she said that library does not need to be real, she meant that we didn’t need to pick a specific one. But what I heard was… 

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thebibliosphere

*snort* excellent.

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Please tell us this will be online in its entirety once finished. Because I MUST READ IT.

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wodneswynn

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

kainoliero

You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.

wodneswynn

I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.

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Big Night Cat watches over the Earth <3

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@iamnamedsilence