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1940Nurse

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  1. Anyone got their CDN certification

    1940Nurse replied to TELEpathicRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

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  2. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Ok that's a clarification. But I'll tell you from experience, it's almost impossible to clean someone up in a lounge chair. They can turn in those darn things. With the arm rests in the way. About...

  3. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    Yep.

  4. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    On the surface I agree with you Tweety. My even bigger concern is the patient sitting in a w/c for 4 hours. NOW that is unacceptable. Hope we've given you some insight and good suggestions for the...

  5. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    If you'd read all the posts you'd see that a nurse alone MIGHT have difficulty standing a patient and pivoting them WITHOUT legs onto a bedside commode. What I said was which would be worse a poopy...

  6. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    BUT not in the dialysis unit itself. So why not hustle him back to his room and clean him up.. I'd be just as concerned though that he sat bolt upright during his whole treatment in a w/c. They have...

  7. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    I worked M/S before I went back into dialysis. The cath lab had an RN and yes the patient could be gone for 4 hours if they called them early. And many times the X-ray department kept patients for a...

  8. Want To Pursue BSN, but...

    1940Nurse replied to thepremier's topic in General Nursing

    I understand your concerns about raising a child. Sounds like you are a single dad. Parenting is tough as a single person either way. One thing to think about is the important lessons you will be...

  9. Anything about PPR Travel?

    1940Nurse replied to waynerrn's topic in Travel

    Many like them. That says something. I hear they give wonderful superb housing. If wonderful superb housing pays your bills; might be worth

  10. hello

    1940Nurse replied to VirginiaHDRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Are you heparinizing your dialyzers during prime? If your chambers are filling up too much then you have something clamped either the arterial or venous line before you have turned off your pump or...

  11. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    LOL Even the unions themselves don't stick together.

  12. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry I was in a hurry and doubled posted...

  13. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    One traveler to another... Haven't you chosen the former? You aren't union as a traveler are

  14. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    How many years of HD experience do you HAVE??????????? Oh wait a minute. The guy has a broken hip from me standing him up to clean him but he has a clean butt.. For

  15. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    Is it "dirty" money to the inept management replacement nurses? Why aren't they following the union and striking

  16. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    Let me see if I've got this correct. The union gets me a 5% raise.. Easy numbers here. My union dues go up by 1%. The hospital offered 4%. How am I ahead of the game with a union? I'm not...

  17. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    We are taking fluid OFF not putting in on. Many units have a policy ( a very lax one at that) of not eating during HD treatments. Reasons not to eat on HD: # 1. A patient can drop their b/p VERY...

  18. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    So you didn't strike or you gave the money you won from the strike back to the hospital. Funny, how it's never about money and yet I've not heard one union nurse say they gave back their hard fought...

  19. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    ESRD is the only chronic illness totally funded by Medicare. There isn't much left over. Where would we store a bedside commode. We have no housekeeping. We use outside contractors to clean the unit....

  20. Cvor

    1940Nurse replied to RNERHOUSESUPOR's topic in Travel

    I know of several who do. You could check the "other forum" .. If you need the link PM me. I'll send it to you.. I think I can't post it here due

  21. traveler n need of advice asap

    1940Nurse replied to wbeth74's topic in Travel

    I've never had a non compete clause in mine either. I wouldn't sign one if it

  22. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    At a Davita unit I worked at it was against policy to take a patient off to go to the bathroom. Many times the urge to go is related to the fight or flight response to hypotension. That's all we need...

  23. Do you have a union? Should nurses strike?

    1940Nurse replied to glenwood's topic in General Nursing

    I never said unions wer in charge of hiring. But they do tell their rank and file that they will get better staffing. Isn't what strikes are for. Per capita was just the tip of the iceberg. And if we...

  24. Patient behavior that ticks you off

    1940Nurse replied to MedicalZebra's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Some of them.. Some of them are bigger than

  25. Dialysis patients who are incontinent

    1940Nurse replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    We don't usually clean them up. Especially if she had another patient to watch in the room. Usually the dialysis nurse is alone with two patients. If she is up to her elbows ( sorry) in poop and the...