Sue Damonas

Sue Damonas BSN

Cardiology, Oncology, Hospice,IV Therapy

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  1. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Sue Damonas replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :lol::hehe:

  2. 10 things to never say to a nurse

    Sue Damonas replied to lolalolacherrycola's topic in Nursing Humor

    #5 reminds me of one time I had an abcessed tooth and went to a new dentist. He pulled the tooth and was't going to give me an antibiotic because "You can just get an antibiotic tomorrow at work". I...

  3. Unlicensed personell administering medication.

    Sue Damonas replied to MurseMan1's topic in General Nursing

    I have several Hospice pts in assisted living facilities and the staff are all aides and they pass all the meds, including insulin. But nothing IV and they can't give

  4. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    Sue Damonas replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    I met my sister in law's crazy ex mother in law once. She went on with this long story about how she had a partial hysterectomy when she was 4 months pregnant with her last child(who is an adult now)...

  5. Stethoscope cleaning

    Sue Damonas replied to CanuckStudent's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I use alcohol wipes on my stethesope, never had a problem with

  6. Rant About On Call

    Sue Damonas posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    We do 16 hour on calls on Saturday and Sunday nights and some weekdays. We recently started to take turns doing 24 hour calls on Saturdays and it has been a disaster for everyone so far. I did mine...

  7. Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    Sue Damonas replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my brothers was having back pain one day and said to me "I think I have a cold in my back". After laughing hysterically, I assured him that there was no such thing. Then I said that "if you...

  8. Rant About On Call

    Sue Damonas replied to Sue Damonas's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I have a large case load plus I have to do all of the inpt Hospice evals at the local hospital. We have on call nurses for during the week but we do weekends and holidays and when the on call nurses...

  9. E-mail I got today....

    Sue Damonas replied to flightnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for sharing

  10. Nursing Journal of Jocularity

    Sue Damonas replied to jahrn's topic in Nursing Humor

    So sorry to hear about the tragedy!! I loved JNJ also and still have my copies. I was laughing over one

  11. Improper glove use at your local eatery(s)

    Sue Damonas replied to dawnsternlpn's topic in General Nursing

    One time when I was at work I ran down to the cafeteria to get something to eat. I asked for a piece of pizza to go and the worker told me that he wan't going to put on a pair of gloves for just one...

  12. Dangerous nurses

    Sue Damonas replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked with two, one was a young nurse and she was eventually asked to leave. The other was an older woman who was the manager's friend. She made some serious med errors and couldn't learn the...

  13. Funny/Strange things other hospital employees have done????

    Sue Damonas replied to jessi1106's topic in Nursing Humor

    There was a very lazy housekeeper working on our unit one day and one of our PCAs asked her to do something. The housekeeper proceeded to get very angry and in front of other people threatened to kill...

  14. The House of God

    Sue Damonas replied to 81FSUseminole's topic in General Nursing

    I suddenly remembered "The Serum Porcelain

  15. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Sue Damonas replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is mild compared to some of the other stories but I do Hospice and Palliative care and besides going to pt's homes I go to the facilities in the area. There is a pt at this one assisted living...

  16. Fed Up With Understaffing

    Sue Damonas replied to justmanda's topic in General Nursing

    Understaffing is one of the reasons that I left my job of 25 years. I will never work in a hospital

  17. Things you'd like to say to your co-workers, but never would ....

    Sue Damonas replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks from us night shift people for asking us to pitch in for the party on the unit during the day and then not saving one morsel for for us when we come in at 7pm, thanks for all the empty pans and...

  18. On call? Funny phone calls.

    Sue Damonas replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

    I got a phone call at 10pm on a Saturday night from the wife of a Hospice patient who lived 45 minutes away from me. She was calling to say that he hadn't had a BM in 5 days and could I come and give...

  19. Straight weekend call

    Sue Damonas replied to RNWithAHeart's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I sure wish our Hospice would do the same thing! We have weekday call nurses but we have to cover them for vacations, days off, etc. plus we do weekend call. We keep losing people because everyone's...

  20. GoLytely Shenanigans

    Sue Damonas replied to Reno1978's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've pulled some funny stunts in my career but that one is

  21. What makes you love hospice?

    Sue Damonas replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    My mother was a Hospice patient and I thought of our Hospice nurse as a lifeline. She was wonderful! That's what got me interested in Hospice. I had to wait a few years to get through my own loss but...

  22. Do You Announce That You're a Nurse?

    Sue Damonas replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I let anyone know I was a nurse was when my mother was in the local ER and was going to be lifeflighted to another hospital. I asked that she be flown to the hospital I worked at and...

  23. new nurse- hospice case manager

    Sue Damonas replied to weavrvirgorising's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    The on call nurse should not be calling you like that. The on call nurse should handle those

  24. Physician Refused To Order Morphine

    Sue Damonas posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I went to do an inpatient Hospice eval one day and the son who was the POA wasn't going to be there till the next afternoon. So the next afternoon I got there early to wait for him and discovered that...

  25. I went off on a family member...and I don't feel bad about it.

    Sue Damonas replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    I had someone call in one time stating that she was the patient's daughter calling from California and that she was a CCU RN and that she wanted me to tell her the results of her Dad's cardiac cath....