ICAN!

ICAN! specializes in Dialysis.

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1. Home Dialysis and Compliance

   ICAN! replied to Marisette's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

2. Wrong Dialyzer

   ICAN! replied to uae808's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   Check the doctors order before you set up the machine. Very easy to do in our clinic with chairside

3. Nurses regularly assigned tech station

   ICAN! replied to jlynn2303's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   It happens in our unit when a tech calls in. We are supposed to have one nurse for 12 pts and 1 tech for every four pts. When I have to take a bay I am usually responsible for 4 pts as a tech while...

4. Hypotension

   ICAN! posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   What do you do when your pt becomes hypotensive, asymptomatic, and says, "I feel fine?" I have a couple of pts with BP that goes into lower 70's/30's and feels perfectly normal. Protocol is...

5. The New Grad & Charting

   ICAN! replied to CoffeePVCs's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I bought Mosby's Surefire Documentation - How, What, and When Nurses Need to

6. Lpn in dialysis

   ICAN! replied to dialysisnurseLC's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   the lvn at our unit works as a pct with 4 patients, she can also give their medications and if they are catheters she can start and end their tx and do catheter dressing care. we have a 24 chair...

7. Does anybody know a facility, hospital who is welcoming new nurses

   ICAN! replied to puffi77's topic in Texas Nursing

   Try Timberlawn in Dallas (they have a website), Trinity Mother Frances and East Texas Medical Center (Tyler, TX). I have had interview offers from all three as a new nurse and a job offer twice from...

8. Finding it hard to be positive

   ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I was offered a new job yesterday and my new schedule came out the same day. As soon as I saw my schedule I wanted to quit. Since I wasn't at work I threw a temper tantrum in the privacy of my own...

9. Patient's question put me on the spot!

   ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I believe he missed a tx and wanted more taken off during the same time

10. Patient's question put me on the spot!

    ICAN! posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    So a patient asked me, "If my BFR is at 450, wouldn't 500 do the work that much faster?" Another machine was alarming so I told him I would get back to him shortly (I really felt like I was saved by...

11. Finding it hard to be positive

    ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Nurses that have been there since early morning are closing out first and second shifts. Evening charge nurse is doing assessments for 8 pts and putting on any catheter pts in her bay. I and one other...

12. Finding it hard to be positive

    ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I would like to be that person that hangs in there but yesterday evening was complete chaos! They have not taken away my stethoscope at all. I bring in a patient, do their assessment, have them sit in...

13. How many hours of sleep do you require

    ICAN! posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm the type person that needs eight hours how about you? This week I am on the schedule to work Friday night until 10:30 and then come back in by 6:00 on Saturday morning. It takes me an hour or more...

14. Finding it hard to be positive

    ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    It wouldnt be so bad if I had PCT experience and was faster. When I'm feeling positive I look at it as a learning experience, but when I'm behind and the PCT's have finished putting their pts on and...

15. Finding it hard to be positive

    ICAN! replied to ICAN!'s topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    There are too many RN's and I am not the newest but the one with the least amount of nursing experience. We have had some PCTs quit and our census is growing. As far as paperwork, I still have all...