GeauxNursing

GeauxNursing

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GeauxNursing specializes in Dialysis.


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  1. ICU to Home Dialysis, eek!

    Are you talking about doing in home hemodialysis? Or peritoneal dialysis? Because those are two very different roles. The home hemodialysis nurse goes to the patient's home, sets up the machine and does the treatment for the patient, and then leaves ...
  2. New dialysis nurse in training

    You have to be patient with yourself. Everybody learns at a different pace. It can be very anxiety causing when you are expected to set up a machine during turn over. Do they not have machines in the biomed office that you could practice on? Seasoned...
  3. Chemo labs

    Platins. Carbo. Think carbo, creat.
  4. Oncology RN in doctors office

    I currently work for a four physician oncology group in Dallas. This is my first job as an RN, with 12 years of dialysis as an LVN behind me. I am the clinic nurse for one of the physicians. We do clinic together, I fulfill his orders of medication, ...
  5. Rookie mistakes in dialysis

    Our clinic had standing orders for BP notification to dr as well as holding epo, or giving prn clonidine.
  6. ICU to Home Dialysis, eek!

    Do u have experience in dialysis? Are you referring to a home henodialysis job? Like doing treatments in patient homes? Ive done that for the past 3 years as lvn. Loved it. Great pay, flexibility, but i had no benefits. Just getting my first RN j...
  7. Confused

    I assume LPNs can charge in your state? I'd be nervous, too. Allroach your manager. If they have integrity, they are looking for another RN to cover in the mean time. Are you in a bay with patients as well? How many chairs in the clinic?
  8. 2 shifts are give or take 10 hours. For the RN. You have to stay in the afternoon till all patients are gone. Depending on transportation, this could be a wait. Not completely unlikely for a patient to sit in the lobby an extra hour waiting for their...
  9. DIALYSIS! I am new in the field and feeling very discouraged

    In that case, you are not doing assessments, you are doing data collection. You shouldnt have to asses heart or lungs. The rn does that. You are just checking temp, edema, asking for shortness of breath, documenting heart rate, and presence of thril...
  10. DIALYSIS! I am new in the field and feeling very discouraged

    My habit is: turn off the blood pump, clamp the 2 big lines on the patient end as I'm about to connect the patient, then immediately clamp the saline line. Clamp, clamp, clamp. Detach the lines from each other, and hook up the patient.
  11. DaVita New Grad questions

    She was kept there so long because the clinic was short on pcts. Its a shame. She had to go to the regional director to get her training started.
  12. DaVita New Grad questions

    Depends on management. My clinic hired a new RN, new to dialysis. She was in a bay for a year before they started training her as a floor nurse. She was a PCT for all intents and purposes. Paid as RN, but still. She wasnt hired to be a pct for a year...
  13. Texas BON Declaratory order

    Mine took at least 2 months if i remember correctly.
  14. Davita in our area is now using a Mix Master, a tech who travels and mixes acid. There has been way too much waste over the past couple years from PCTs mixing acid while trying to run a bay. It is just too much for them to do, unless they are requir...
  15. Administering Vancomycin via venous chamber

    I was trying to give vanc today through the venous chamber, too. I kept getting Down-line occlusion alarm on the pump. I got so frustrated. I do not care for the Nipro dialysis lines. I ran it through the NS pigtail pre-pump.