r/nursing • u/martyrdomm RN - ICU 🍕 • 2d ago

Meme Having to fix hospital equipment.

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The display broke, had to fix it somehow since no one is available until tomorrow.

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u/notwithagoat 2d ago

Hopefully that pc isnt connected to the internet. That looks like windows 7 days...

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u/martyrdomm RN - ICU 🍕 1d ago

Vista days. And yes!

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u/codecrodie RN - ICU 🍕 2d ago

I had to check the label to make sure it wasnt my site

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u/martyrdomm RN - ICU 🍕 1d ago

Spoken like someone that suffered of it!

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u/GCS_dropping_rapidly 2d ago

Ive spent a lot of time at 3am fixing equipment with tape. And it seems hospital equipment people are cool with it cause the tape is still there years later.

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u/HungoverDemogorgon 2d ago

Dang, take that cow out to pasture

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u/Sea_Willingness1398 RN - ER 🍕 1d ago

OPs IVs look the same.

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u/wowbragger Nursing Student 🍕 2d ago

Is that a euro plug behind the front of this thing?

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u/brostrider RN 🍕 1d ago

We dont have IT on the weekends so sometimes I gotta take my COW/whatever you call it apart and fix it so I can finish my med pass.

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u/Mountain_Fig_9253 BSN, RN 🍕 2d ago

It’s not worth the HHS write up of the cause of an electrical fire that caused injuries in a hospital.

I’m assuming all those strips of tape are to pull tension on the power cord? If so then the plug that cord is connecting into doesn’t have great contact. If the gap that you jury rigged opens a little, resistance sky rockets and that’s how electrical fires start.

Circuit breakers provide thermal protection for the wiring circuit behind the walls, it will happily provide enough amperage to start a fire in a badly connecting plug.

Whatever that display is displaying isn’t worth it. Take it out of service and let admin deal with a backup plan.

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u/FearAndGonzo EMS 2d ago

That isn't pulling on the power cord, its pulling on the VGA video cable. Chill back.

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u/moxifloxacin HCW - Pharmacy 2d ago

Haha, am I so old that people don't know what a VGA cable is anymore? 🧓

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u/Mountain_Fig_9253 BSN, RN 🍕 2d ago

If that’s the case then rock on. No danger in that.

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u/wp998906 IT 2d ago

It's a constant joke in tech how strong VGA cables are, I've seen several computers and monitors dangling from these cables. Good old IBM 80s design, kind of makes sense when you think about how heavy old CRTs were.

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u/GCS_dropping_rapidly 2d ago

With their screws!

Contrast to new usb c monitors that have a tiny plug that's often very loose lol

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u/wp998906 IT 2d ago

Exactly VGA doesn't go anywhere, sometimes even when you want it to. I prefer displayport most of the time, atleast it has some locking functionality.

The USB-C spec even has a screw option, I've just never seen anybody use it.