nurse dolly

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1. LVN/LPN scope in your unit?

   nurse dolly replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I am an LVN and have been in dialysis for 8 years. I can do everything our RN does and more ( in fact I have any trained a few who were completely new to dialysis. Yes the laws have changed as far as...

2. Taking out the trash

   nurse dolly replied to VAC's topic in General Nursing

   I work in dialysis and we dump all trash between each patient and also at the end of the day we have to take out the biohazard trash which is almost all of ( you know the huge red boxes) anyway...

3. Antibiotics during dialysis

   nurse dolly replied to TELEpathicRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   We used to give it last hr of dialysis at out clinic due to dialyzing out of antibiotics or gent was given last 15-30 mins. However our policy has changed and all antibiotics are now given after...

4. LPN's working at a dialysis clinic?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   When I started it was in 1996 and I was trained at the dialysis unit where I was hired I had orientation for approx. 3 months this was mostly hands on and reading material and all the policies and...

5. LPN's working at a dialysis clinic?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   At the dialysis clinic I work at a typical day can either start out 1 of 2 ways for me, 1 I have medications all day so I 'm not actually assigned any patients, however that means that I am...

6. dialysis center nurses get less pay?

   nurse dolly replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

   When I started out at a dialysis unit in 1996 I had no experience in anything except 6 months in nursing home (I was fresh out of LVN school) anyway I was paid 11.00 per hour and have been in...

7. Long bleeding times

   nurse dolly replied to 3651bht's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

8. nurse/pt ratio?

   nurse dolly replied to lee1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   we are responsible for setting up and monitoring 4 patients at a time in between doing assessments on all 10-20 patients plus all medications on 20 patients , plus help anybody who might need help...