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Hi everybody! I posted in the past that I was interested in giving dialysis nursing a try. Well I just accepted a position with DCI. I tried long term care but it’s not working out like I though so I decided to finally take the leap and try dialysis. I’m nervous yet excited! 

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I could not work in acutes where I am at. It's very often you work your 12 hours and they have two ESRD patients in the ER being admitted for any number of problems, and needing emergent dialysis. So my day just went from 12 to 18 hours or more.

Nah no thanks.  And I did not want to go home at 11pm to be on call until the next day, can't sleep that way.

I am glad it's not this bad all over.

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On 7/26/2021 at 7:48 PM, SmilingBluEyes said:

I could not work in acutes where I am at. It's very often you work your 12 hours and they have two ESRD patients in the ER being admitted for any number of problems, and needing emergent dialysis. So my day just went from 12 to 18 hours or more.

Nah no thanks.  And I did not want to go home at 11pm to be on call until the next day, can't sleep that way.

I am glad it's not this bad all over.

I can understand that. I wouldn’t want to work days that long either! 

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