nurse dolly

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1. LVN/LPN scope in your unit?

   nurse dolly replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Urology

   I am an LVN and have been in dialysis for 8 years. I can do everything our RN does and more ( in fact I have any trained a few who were completely new to dialysis. Yes the laws have changed as far as the way charge goes (back in 1997 when I first st...

2. Taking out the trash

   nurse dolly replied to VAC's topic in General Nursing

   I work in dialysis and we dump all trash between each patient and also at the end of the day we have to take out the biohazard trash which is almost all of ( you know the huge red boxes) anyway usually 5 or 6 of these a day, the PCT's usually do thi...

3. Antibiotics during dialysis

   nurse dolly replied to TELEpathicRN's topic in Urology

   We used to give it last hr of dialysis at out clinic due to dialyzing out of antibiotics or gent was given last 15-30 mins. However our policy has changed and all antibiotics are now given after dialysis over 30 mins to an hour depending on which one...

4. LPN's working at a dialysis clinic?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   When I started it was in 1996 and I was trained at the dialysis unit where I was hired I had orientation for approx. 3 months this was mostly hands on and reading material and all the policies and procedures. I would say it was a good 6 months befo...

5. LPN's working at a dialysis clinic?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   At the dialysis clinic I work at a typical day can either start out 1 of 2 ways for me, 1 I have medications all day so I 'm not actually assigned any patients, however that means that I am responsible for helping put on all catheter patients and lif...

6. dialysis center nurses get less pay?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   When I started out at a dialysis unit in 1996 I had no experience in anything except 6 months in nursing home (I was fresh out of LVN school) anyway I was paid 11.00 per hour and have been in dialysis every since and am now making 18.50 per hour I d...

7. Clotted Grafts

   nurse dolly replied to radnurse2001's topic in Urology

   sounds very strange if you cant feel a thrill or hear bruit then it is clotted. Maybe they had other problems with the access like bad clearances or unable to monitor arterial pressure and venous pressures over 100 at blood pump speed of 200.

8. Long bleeding times

   nurse dolly replied to 3651bht's topic in Urology

9. nurse/pt ratio?

   nurse dolly replied to lee1's topic in Urology

   we are responsible for setting up and monitoring 4 patients at a time in between doing assessments on all 10-20 patients plus all medications on 20 patients , plus help anybody who might need help with their patients. By the way I am an LVN at a 21 c...