serenidad2004

serenidad2004

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About serenidad2004

serenidad2004 has 10 years experience and specializes in Dialysis.


Born and raised in the midwest. I have been a nurse for almost 10 years. I spend my time away from work with my 5 kids, husband and 2 chihuahuas.

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  1. Young Nurses!

    I graduated and started as an LPN at 20 got my RN at 24.
  2. IM injection

    I've never given IM shots or shots of any kind on the side with the AVF/AVG. Isnt that what we also teach our patients? No needle sticks BPs etc on ur access arm.
  3. I just wanted to SCREAM

    I once took care of a physician... he came to our SNF after a heart surgery at a larger hospital. He was a doc I had dealt with many times before as he often admitted patients to our unit. He was one of the best patients I have ever taken care of. T...
  4. RN License plate

    Theres a doc in town here his plates say "kidney"
  5. Smokers need not apply?

    My employer is a smoke free facility but they haven't started testing for nicotene nor do they deny employment to those that smoke. I am a smoker but am able to work through the day only having a cigarette on my unpaid lunch. I don't think my emplo...
  6. Switching from Chronic to Acute Dialysis

    I work in a hospital unit. I do chronics the majority of the time but am on call one weekend per month (from friday at 8pm until monday at 5am.) If there is someone in acute who needs dialysis during the week myself and the other 4 nurses take turns.
  7. Level 2 background checks at LTC

    What is a level 2 background check? How is it different?
  8. Wise nurses please give me advice, from med surg to dialysis

    I went to dialysis a year and a half ago after almost 9yrs SNF/LTC. I haven't lost any skills if anything I've gained them and have been able to draw on the experience I had. I felt like a new grad all over again, it is A LOT to learn and I have just...
  9. Does your SO understand job stress?

    No my husband doesnt get it, he is a cook. When I get home late, say shift was over at 3 but don't get off until 4. He is always like "well you were supposed to be off an hour ago you should have just left." Yeah ok... I have tried numerous times to...
  10. When is it time to make the best decision for youself?

    Please seek help sooner rather than later. If your facility offers EAP take advantage of it. See about FMLA to take care of yourself
  11. UU?

    While I am now Catholic I attwnded Unitarian church and summer camps growing up. They definately have a broader view of religion worship and everything else that traditional churches like Catholic Methodist Lutheran etc twnd to have fairly rigid view...
  12. D.O.N. tells me NOT to describe wound???

    I was taught in LTC/SNF I could describe a wound ie: drainage amount character odor etc wound bed color periwound tissue appearance blanching and if any slough or eschar. What I couldn't do was call it a "stage X pressure ulcer" unless it had been pr...
  13. Do you have a nickname at work?

    Makes me laugh... on my last unit I was routinely refered to as "whexican." I am white but my husband is from Mexico. He has been here for over 20yrs but we do speak "spanglish" at home. Nickname came about because I would absent mindedly answer cowo...
  14. Call Ins. Again

    On my previous unit we had a "staffing" nurse as well. She was supposed to do the schedule find coverage for call ins, fill any holes in the schedule, and help with admissions. Yep those things rarely happened. A hole in the schedule? Oh she "must ha...
  15. I feel like a loner sometimes.

    When I was in high school I wasn't a social butterfly. I had my close friends and that was it. I was nice helpful and would go out of my way to help the person who seemed was the "odd man out" Flash forward to nursing school... I too did things back...