SweetDreamsRN

SweetDreamsRN has 6 years experience and specializes in Numerous.

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1. Do you identify yourself as a nurse when you or your family are a patient?

   SweetDreamsRN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   "Nurse family member from hell"? Part of MY nursing scope when I am on duty is to interact professionally with the family members WITHOUT bias...whether there is a nurse... a clown..a garbageman or whatever in the group. Oh and BTW I DO identify mys...

2. Dear preceptor

   SweetDreamsRN replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   I wish I had known then (when I started out as a new RN) what I know now.And that is to set a very high standard for your own behavior and your clinical skills. I can not emphasize enough that what I found in my clinical experiences was that for ever...

3. Dear preceptor

   SweetDreamsRN replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Laurie, Keep your chin up and just roll with the punches. Those nurses are acting really stupid. Ignore them put them on extinction you are not there to be their BFF( best friend forever). Figure out exactly which nurses you are accountable to and d...

4. Dear preceptor

   SweetDreamsRN replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   I think that some nurses really are bullies.And it makes me cringe to think of how that mean streak could manifest in their interactions with vulnerable patients. Please let us all remember that we are personally capable of being positive...generous....

5. Confessions of a 30-Something RN Grad

   SweetDreamsRN replied to LuvofNursing's topic in New Nurse

   I am LOL at your cute story:):) For me I methodically studied every note...every tape recording...I had ever done in nursing school..I paid $450.00 for a Kaplan review course that had me driving 120 miles round trip for study sessions all to prepare ...

6. Dear preceptor

   SweetDreamsRN replied to Ivanna_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   I have experienced that type of negativity more than a few times from other nurses. One thing I have learned is that it is easy to become part of that negativity and lose focus of what matters (optimal patient care). As difficult as it may be to do t...