As the Holidays Approach, Remember the Dialysis Patients!

Often over the holiday time dialysis patients are admitted to the hospital, this can be due to fluid overload or problems connected to over eating. In my experience healthcare staff see dialysis patients as difficult, so my article is a brief look at how things can be hard for these patients during times of celebrations. Nurses General Nursing Article

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Specializes in Nephrology.

Thanks for the article Madwife. Good points....but I want to know what world you live in that gives staff holidays off? Lol, the only one we get is Christmas day and we have to open on Sunday to cover that. I have worked the last 6 Thanksgivings in a row!

Specializes in Med Surg.
as an acutes dialysis nurse...

they must consider their dialysis treatments to be their "job" and take it just as seriously as if they were calling in sick to their employer every time they skip a treatment. Their reward, or "pay", is remaining as healthy as possible and getting to stay out of the hospital.

Great post, sister!