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Hi there,

Just a question for all currently enrolled RN students. Do you have clinicals at a dialysis unit or a dialysis floor? My stepdaughter says she is doing clinicals on a dialysis unit and I find that hard to believe. I graduated many years ago and even now I think that dialysis is NOT the place for students.

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Specializes in Psych.

im on the floor that has inhouse dialysis. If my patient goes, i go to, but I only observe.

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In my first clinical we were placed on a sub-acute floor that was also the dedicated dialysis floor. So most patients were on dialysis, although we had to research the heck out of what to expect; we were forbidden to touch a thing when it came to the dialysis treatment.

I got to watch and help clean up afterward, but that was it. .

It was cool and kinda of creepy to watch.

So in answer to your question, she might be on a dialysis floor.

We are told where to go and have no choice in the matter. Its all about availablilty in our area to accomodate student nurses.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I actually was just at a clinical for a dialysis unit, that was separate from the hospital. however some of my pts this summer had to have CRRT and I was a part of that. It was a lot of fun!

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Specializes in Psych.

Also, as a psych aide, I have to stay with patients during their dialysis treatment, unless they dr signs the order that they can stay there without an escort. It was an interesting experience to see how it worked.

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I was told that she was doing dialysis as pat of her clinical rotation by her father. I still do not believe that. She may be on a renal floor and she may accompany her patient when they go to dialysis. But, I do NOT believe for a second that she is doing anything in dialysis with the exception of helping the regular staff clean the patient and observation. I am just ticked because she likes to tell people that she is doing what I do and she is only in school and has another year before graduation. I should just let this roll off me. Thanks for reading and responding.

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I did an 8 hour clinical rotation on a dialysis unit for my LPN to RN program.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
I was told that she was doing dialysis as pat of her clinical rotation by her father. I still do not believe that. She may be on a renal floor and she may accompany her patient when they go to dialysis. But, I do NOT believe for a second that she is doing anything in dialysis with the exception of helping the regular staff clean the patient and observation. I am just ticked because she likes to tell people that she is doing what I do and she is only in school and has another year before graduation. I should just let this roll off me. Thanks for reading and responding.

Why is it such a bother to you that she might be doing that? After lurking around here for some time, the stuff I do in clinicals, many other students have not even had the chance to and vice versa. Just because you didnt get to do it does not mean other students have not.

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Dialysis is a very specific niche, and in general I think most clinical rotations in school are of a more general nature...med/surg, peds, psych, community health, labor/delivery. I did my clinicals about 19 years ago and noone in my school went to dialysis. To this day, noone at my alma mater is doing rotations in dialysis. I know this because I have two friends that are instructors there. Some of the students have had opportunities to watch dialysis while their patients were being dialysed. My step daughter has also been known to lie or exaggerate. Two years ago, she was going to med school in the Carribbean and joining the Air Force. It is NOT a bother to me if she is on a dialysis unit. I was just curious if clinicals had changed that much. I know that everyone's clinical experience is different.

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I know you posted a year ago, but I am in my last clinical rotation before I graduate and I am on a dialysis/Renal floor and will shadow a nurse and perform her duties under her watch.

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Last week one of the guys in my clinical went to dialysis. And I know of a couple that went last semester too. A lot of things have changed in 19 years. Heck my own clinical instructor was telling me, back in the day when she went through the LPN program they all practiced procedures on each other, like foley catheters! Times change!

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First semester and I'm on a Renal floor

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