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I have been in dialysis for 12 years and have done just about everything. I have been an in-center nurse; a PD nurse; helped with home hemo; currently an acute dialysis travel nurse. I will tell you what I was told when I started . . . you will eithe...

Worked for years in-center and PD. Just took my first Acutes job at the end of March. I was promised a rose garden and the first month was wonderful. Now, I am not seeing that rose garden. I did a 37 hour day (LOL) when 1 RN was on vacation and 1 RN ...

2 years as a hemo RN and have been a PD RN for 4 months. I get tired of ER, L&D, med-surg, etc., RNs thinking that either is EASY. I have been told that hemo is nothing since you just stick 2 needles in them and let them run for a few hours. BULL...

You are an RN at the assisted living facility? Your patient is inpatient for physical therapy/rehab? The rounding MD ordered lab work on this pt? What is the pt's background medical background? Did the MD provide a reason for requesting labs? Has the...

Had my B.S. in another field for many years before going into nursing. I started nursing school at 38 and became an RN at 40. I am 3 years into being an RN and know this is what I am meant to do. NOT CRAZY AT ALL!

PD solution is dextrose based . . . the stronger the dextrose strength, the more fluid pulled. Best explanation my preceptor told me: think of cutting up strawberries, put a little sugar on them and you get a little juice but put a lot of sugar on th...

I wholeheartedly disagree with the statement that new grads shouldn't become Dialysis RNs. I stumbled into dialysis nursing as a new grad and, as everyonein dialysis has experienced at one time or another, there have been days when I ask WHAT AM I DO...

DITTO! I am 8 months in and am wanting something else.

At my clinic (30 chairs) all nurses are required to be BLS and ACLS certified. All PCTs are required to be BLS certified. A code sheet is made out weekly (sometimes daily) as to who does what in the case of a code. Since I started 8 months ago we hav...

I work in a 30 unit center with most chairs filled at each shift (we run 2 shifts per day/6 days per week). There is a definite "power struggle". The techs think the nurses do nothing but sit and chat; I, being an RN, can never get all the work done ...

not sure as to the answer for your question, but i own a card iii steth. i received it my last year in nursing school as a birthday present. suffice it to say that i love :heartbeat:heartbeat it. my thought was that i was going to go into cardio -- n...

hi, guys! i am 2 months into my hd rn job and have yet to have anyone give me the lowdown on the portion of the bundling that will hit on 1/1. i have a legal background as well as a teaching background, so reading the super-inflated medicolegalese (n...

Oh, I just now saw this -- my heart is broken. I, too, just graduated from nursing school and could always count on Daytonite to set me straight on any questions I had. She was such a wonderful teacher I do hope she knows how much we all care(d) for...

It depends on who you have as a teacher. I thought they were both easy. Most people think Moral is easier. Just a hint, get everything out of the way before you go into the program. That is what I did and I am counting down the days until graduation ...

I will be graduating in less than a month and I hate to inform you, but the field here is extremely tight. Most of the hospitals do their major recruiting in March/April and secondary recruiting in Octoberish. The market here is so competitive and th...

I am hoping to take mine for the first time in June. Just took HESI today and passed with flying colors [amazing!]. Keep me posted!

Ahhhhhhhhh . . . I didn't think it was a NANDA dx! Thank you for your help. You have no idea how much it means!!

i am in a complete panic because i am so very unsure of what to do. i am in my final semester of nursing school and have been presented with a problem of which i am unsure how to proceed. i have a week to write a care plan on the following patient: 5...

care plans? i hate them. not because they take so much time and effort, but because i do not feel that i have been properly guided as to how to create an excellent care plan. i have the ideas in my head but cannot translate them out and make them app...

Thank you! I thought that was the case, but was unsure! Another quick question, she has me doing the dx of "risk for ineffective protection" based on the pt's decreased WBC count. This is a new dx for me -- I haven't used it in the previous 3 semeste...

As it goes in the medical (and legal) field . . . my instructor changed the pt. for whom I was doing a care plan [and the one who was discharged halfway through the first day]. Soooo very much my luck. She assigned me 6 diagnoses she would like for ...

I think you hit the nail on the head! I have to quit thinking like a doctor and remember to think like a nurse. All I saw were "risk for"s and what you stated makes my brain turn in a different direction. I can't "fix" or "heal" him, therefore I must...

Yes, I know about the 5th VS and yes, I know that non-communicative patients "communicate" through these VS. I thought that I had mentioned that his pain was one of my high priority nursing dxs, but unfortunately, I forgot to post that -- I have that...

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Would love to get a copy of this excel sheet! ?