[mmurphy]

Your role as a dialysis nurse is not to be a Nazi Guard. Try to understand sitting in a chair for 4 hours without food or drink. Try to understand that this treatment time is like "a job" for the patients Let alone the time traveling to and from the treatment center. do you go for 4- 6 hours without food or drink on a regular basis. Your role is not to "control" the patients.

[bluefabian]

Even if we enforce this rules who actually follows?

In my place, patients eat all the time and we make no fuss. That four hours and such. But then again, there are those who respond worse to the treatment after such heavy meal. Seen this on a variety of patients and this is why I have been telling them to either take snacks or small meals during the treatment or eat prior to coming in.

[NephroTorch]

Of course fluid restrictions is tantamount to the treatment of our patients (given). I really wouldn't use sodium modelling for my patients because it leaves the patient thirsy post tx (seen in practice) - thus they are consuming more fluid than they normally would. But if i have to use sodium modelling, i would use UF Profiling together with the Sodium to make sure that complications is minimized. But i would rather use UF profiling alone (instead)..