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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 breaks the care givers back. Been there done that....

Yep.

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 next time.

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 butt or a broken hip? I never said you critized any...

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 very little support for that type of process and fo...

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 long time. And had an RN in that department. Is t...

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 teaching your child by persuing YOUR dreams. Maybe not...

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

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 you aren't releasing your clamps when you turn on ...

LOL Even the unions themselves don't stick together. :trout:

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

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

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 surgery.

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

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 ahead............. the union is!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 quickly on HD. They don't even know it's happening. IF...

Men are fixers. Your bf figured the best way to fix your problem was to move on. He did listen though. Keep that in mind. Men don't want to be ineffective so they fix things. Even things we, as women, don't want fixed or aren't really broken. Chin...

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 and won raises.

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. We don't have rooms. We don't have curtains. And ...

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 TOS.

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

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 is for a patient to sit bolt upright saying I have...

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 were to compare unionized facilties and non-unioni...

Some of them.. Some of them are bigger than me..