[lillady1225]

And which do you like better. I'm going to go from cronic to acutes. I think i'll like it better, even though i love doing cronic.

[weav16125]

I am employed as an acute and chronic hemodialysis nurse. I work 50/50 chronic and acute. I do make more money due to the fact that I do acutes. At my place of employment we are scheduled for 4, 10 hour days. We have an acute team which includes 2 other nurses and myself. We cover three different hospitals and are on call every 3rd weekend which includes, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We are lucky and work for an excellent company. We are scheduled 4 days during the week when we are on call. That means that if we are called out on Saturday or Sunday we are paid overtime and also receive a bonus for each patient. So if we get called out for two different patients we get 2 bonuses.... and so on. My point is that you can really make good money doing acutes. We also receive a bonus if we are still out two hours after our scheduled quitting time. This is whether we are on call or not. So to answer your question I like to mix it up and work both, acutes can be break from the unit and a little slower paced, unless of course you have problems with a catheter or BP problems and so on.

sorry so long.

[Gooseberry]

In Southern CA acutes get paid much better and the job is much easier.

[dialysisguy]

Thanks Gooseberry!!! I was afraid I was going to have to go back to Telemetry.
I was making 40+/hr in tele; now I earn less than 30/hr!

However, I enjoy my job and my MWF sched. Money is not everything...

Working toward acutes.

[Gooseberry]

no really, ON THE AVERAGE i make S39-40/hr.

[akai6]

I just changed from chronic to acutes and i make a significant amount more in acutes HOWEVER, you will probably work way more hours for that money. idk how they base pay where you are from, but I am per tx, then there is a formula how they calculate how much you get paid for overtime. As an LVN work about 50 hours a week at 10 tx, after taxes and insurance, 401k etc I take home about $1600.