Night shift and dialysis

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Specializes in CVICU.

can you work a 3 day 7p-7a hospital position while doing acute dialysis fulltime? will the schedules interfere with each other? i’m also looking to get an icu job pretty soon. can you do icu training while doing acute dialysis fulltime? both will be 3 days a week. but im pretty sure the dialysis position will exceed 12 hours a shift maybe extend 16-18 hours. is it possible to do night shift and dialysis? not asking for the toll on the body because i can handle 6 days a week but mostly the scheduling aspect of it. does anybody do this or know anybody that does?

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In my opinion, trying to work two positions with full time hours will be difficult, if not impossible to do; especially if the acute dialysis position is day shift. Both positions are going to have weekend, holiday, etc. requirements and neither are going to care on whit that you have another job, and each is going to expect you to meet their requirements.

Best wishes.

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Specializes in ICU.

I work two jobs in the same system with the blessing of both managers and the scheduling in my situation is a nightmare. I can’t imagine trying to do it between two positions where the managers aren’t trying to make it work on your behalf.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Acute dialysis is unpredictable. It's literally feast or famine. What may be a scheduled 12 hour shift can easily turn to 18 or 20, if new admissions show up needing acute dialysis. You don't go home until the treatments are over. Can you handle that plus another full time job? Only you can decide. I could not.

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1 minute ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

Acute dialysis is unpredictable. It's literally feast or famine. What may be a scheduled 12 hour shift can easily turn to 18 or 20, if new admissions show up needing acute dialysis. You don't go home until the treatments are over. Can you handle that plus another full time job? Only you can decide. I could not.

so do you think it would be better to switch to day shifts with my hospital job?

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Probably.

But remember, if you are stuck administering dialysis until 2 am, can you reasonably be able to work at 7 the next morning? I could not. If I don't get sleep, my decision making skills are the first thing to fall by the wayside. I can't allow that.

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