Hemo Nurse

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1. medicare payment for hospital based chronic/acute dialysis

   Hemo Nurse replied to Gibbie's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   When I worked in an acute/cronic unit based hospital dialysis center.... We had a room and Acute dialysis room within an ICU unit that allowed us to HD our "stable" in-house hemo patients, also in...

2. VRE and MRSA

   Hemo Nurse replied to Juanay's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I agree with you to some extent, but as I have found, it's better to error on the side of caution with this issue. As much as I would like to say that all cuffs are cleaned b/t pts, I know they are...

3. VRE and MRSA

   Hemo Nurse replied to Juanay's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   At the unit I'm currently at we follow universal precautions... With the addage of a disposable cuff that the patient does take home and return with each tx. We don't disinfect the machines after...