sweetart_1980 RN, CNS

sweetart_1980 has 7 years experience as a RN, CNS and specializes in 2 yrs as CNS then ortho, psych, nephro.

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1. Charting Bloopers

   sweetart_1980 replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   not a blooper but funny: for a end of life cancer patient who jokingly answered the question posed by the MD u need anything else to help u? she replied a couple shots of vodka would be great! The MD wrote the order 2oz vodka bid prn...way to go doc!

2. Charting Bloopers

   sweetart_1980 replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   for a end of life cancer patient who jokingly answered the question posed by the MD u need anything else to help u? she replied a couple shots of vodka would be great! The MD wrote the order 2oz vodka bid prn...way to go doc!

3. you know your a nurse if

   sweetart_1980 posted a topic in Humor

   YOU KNOW YOU'RE A NURSE IF..... You believe every patient needs TLC: Thorazine, Lorazepam and Compazine. You would like to meet the inventor of the call light in a dark alley one night. You believe not all patients are annoying ... some are uncon...

4. New Grad at Davita

   sweetart_1980 replied to ALH2004's topic in Urology

   It really depends on the facility u work for. The Facility Administrator and your coworkers make all the difference in the out patient unit. You work with the same people for those 12 hours, and yes some of the units have 10 12 or 14 hour days. some ...

5. Nursing and tattoos

   sweetart_1980 replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

   yea ok...people get tattoos for various reason....not just to get attention...dont we teach in our hospitals to our nurses to have cultural awareness and tolerance for our patients? why dont we have it for eachother?

6. Nursing and tattoos

   sweetart_1980 replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

   everyone makes a big deal about them being covered with scrubs...i have a tattoo on my left lower inner arm and its never been a big deal...only one patient in my 7 years of nursing has commented negatively on it and she was a retired old skool nurse...

7. Becoming a CNA before getting a BSN?

   sweetart_1980 replied to runnerVA's topic in General Nursing

   one thing i could suggest cause i did it myself..if u can find a cna job in a teaching hospital they are used to nursing students and how to deal with them and will help u learn as much as possible while u work...and bonus u might just slide right in...

8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   sweetart_1980 replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   ~If your are on dialysis and u need to go to the bathroom do not disconnect yourself from your blood tubing allowing your blood to pump out of said needle all over u and the bed...amazing amounts of blood will pump from the needle in the five seconds...

9. Overtime when "on-call"

   sweetart_1980 posted a topic in General Nursing

   HI, i am an acute dialysis nurse and have questions regarding how many hours a rn can work in general in a 24 hour day and also how many hours a RN can work when in a 24 hour on call day. Are there labor laws that regulate this? Sometimes it feels li...