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About ICAN!

ICAN! specializes in Dialysis.


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  1. Home Dialysis and Compliance

  2. Wrong Dialyzer

    Check the doctors order before you set up the machine. Very easy to do in our clinic with chairside computers.
  3. Nurses regularly assigned tech station

    It happens in our unit when a tech calls in. We are supposed to have one nurse for 12 pts and 1 tech for every four pts. When I have to take a bay I am usually responsible for 4 pts as a tech while also performing all nursing duties for those 4 pts a...
  4. Hypotension

    What do you do when your pt becomes hypotensive, asymptomatic, and says, "I feel fine?" I have a couple of pts with BP that goes into lower 70's/30's and feels perfectly normal. Protocol is trendelenberg, turn UF off, give NS, O2. These pts are actin...
  5. The New Grad & Charting

    I bought Mosby's Surefire Documentation - How, What, and When Nurses Need to Document.
  6. Lpn in dialysis

    the lvn at our unit works as a pct with 4 patients, she can also give their medications and if they are catheters she can start and end their tx and do catheter dressing care. we have a 24 chair unit and the lvn is usually on the side of the room ...
  7. Try Timberlawn in Dallas (they have a website), Trinity Mother Frances and East Texas Medical Center (Tyler, TX). I have had interview offers from all three as a new nurse and a job offer twice from one but decided to stay where I'm at.
  8. Finding it hard to be positive

    I was offered a new job yesterday and my new schedule came out the same day. As soon as I saw my schedule I wanted to quit. Since I wasn't at work I threw a temper tantrum in the privacy of my own home, calmed down, and looked at the schedule again....
  9. Patient's question put me on the spot!

    I believe he missed a tx and wanted more taken off during the same time frame.
  10. So a patient asked me, "If my BFR is at 450, wouldn't 500 do the work that much faster?" Another machine was alarming so I told him I would get back to him shortly (I really felt like I was saved by the alarm). I'm pretty new to dialysis but this mad...
  11. Finding it hard to be positive

    Nurses that have been there since early morning are closing out first and second shifts. Evening charge nurse is doing assessments for 8 pts and putting on any catheter pts in her bay. I and one other nurse are assessing, stringing up machines, putti...
  12. Finding it hard to be positive

    I would like to be that person that hangs in there but yesterday evening was complete chaos! They have not taken away my stethoscope at all. I bring in a patient, do their assessment, have them sit in the chair while I take off another patient, have ...
  13. I'm the type person that needs eight hours how about you? This week I am on the schedule to work Friday night until 10:30 and then come back in by 6:00 on Saturday morning. It takes me an hour or more to wind down when I get home and I live 45 minute...
  14. Finding it hard to be positive

    It wouldnt be so bad if I had PCT experience and was faster. When I'm feeling positive I look at it as a learning experience, but when I'm behind and the PCT's have finished putting their pts on and offer no help at all, it is overwhelming. I want to...
  15. Finding it hard to be positive

    There are too many RN's and I am not the newest but the one with the least amount of nursing experience. We have had some PCTs quit and our census is growing. As far as paperwork, I still have all those RN duties. The fact remains that I was hired as...