westieluv

westieluv

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  1. Why do nurses work chronic dialysis if the companies/hours are so bad?

    westieluv replied to Marshall1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    The pace in a chronic unit is fast during turn, when you are getting one shift of patients off of their treatments and the next shift on, but between turns it is much more laid back. You document...

  2. Why do nurses work chronic dialysis if the companies/hours are so bad?

    westieluv replied to Marshall1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I have never heard anyone who works in chronic dialysis say that the hours are bad, the hours are one of the reasons why people stay in chronic dialysis (no Sundays, no major holidays, get to go home...

  3. Fizzy "Cherry Pop" Coming From Patient?

    westieluv posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I was taught when I started working in dialysis that a fizzy, "cherry pop" quality to the blood in the blood lines indicates hemolysis. A few days ago, I noticed this type of blood in the arterial...

  4. Consents for inpatient acute hd

    westieluv replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Good question. When I worked acutes a few years ago we had a situation where the patient was a male found comatose in a public park with an empty bottle of antifreeze lying next to him and no ID on...

  5. Why white shoes?

    westieluv replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    Oops! Should say we are NOT shrouded in leather from head to toe,

  6. Why white shoes?

    westieluv replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    We wear long sleeved, fluid impermeable gowns with snug fitting cuffs at the neck and wrists that cover us from our necks down to past our knees any time we are performing patient care, along with the...

  7. Why white shoes?

    westieluv replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    This comment made me literally LOL, just the mental picture of a bunch of nurses sprinting down a hallway in Danskos, clunking all the way. I tried Danskos once, personally, I HATE them. I don't care...

  8. Why white shoes?

    westieluv replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in General Nursing

    I tried to read through all of the previous replies to make sure that this wasn't already addressed, so if it was, my apologies, I missed it. I think it has a lot to do with what running shoes and...

  9. New HD Nurse

    westieluv replied to RexRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Do you mean that you are supposed to be putting the patients on and taking them off, or just overseeing the techs who do it? That makes a huge difference, also if you are an RN or LPN, since my...

  10. Fizzy "Cherry Pop" Coming From Patient?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks, Chisca, I appreciate the information. I guess I should have known that, but I'm still getting my dialysis feet wet again (not literally...yet, lol) after spending the past 2+ years doing...

  11. Fizzy "Cherry Pop" Coming From Patient?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Venous pressures were fine. Once the patient was wakened and repositioned, the blood returned to normal and she finished her treatment. Someone I was telling this to yesterday who is very experienced...

  12. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    westieluv posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just started a new job working three 12 hour shifts a week. I love the job, but sometimes it requires us to go several hours between having anything to eat, and, while I'm not diabetic or anything,...

  13. anyone know of any other jobs

    westieluv replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    I worked retail for a short while between nursing jobs. If you think nurses don't get any respect, try retail and see what the general public thinks of you then. They treat you like you are at the...

  14. Hep. B in the dialysis chronic clinic

    westieluv replied to Hairstylingnurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    When I worked in a Fresenius clinic with a patient who was positive for Hep B and C, she dialyzed in an isolation room but I still had ten patients in my section to be responsible for, I just had to...

  15. Possible Disability Case?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have had physical therapy for my neck in the past when it flared up, but I also had to be off work because as soon as I went back it started right back in again. I no longer do the telephone triage...

  16. Problems with Preceptor

    westieluv replied to everchangingRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I took a break from dialysis after I left Fresenius acutes and did telephone triage work from home. I really liked it, but then we got into a position where we needed healthcare benefits and my...

  17. Problems with Preceptor

    westieluv replied to everchangingRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    This is exactly what I asked when I worked acutes for Fresenius, and no, based on my experience and from what I've heard from other dialysis nurses on this forum and elsewhere, Fresenius is not any...

  18. Problems with Preceptor

    westieluv replied to everchangingRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    If your FA fired you for asking for a preceptor who did not belittle you or asking her about your orientation checklist, then you are well rid of that place. Working for her would only get worse. She...

  19. Problems with Preceptor

    westieluv replied to everchangingRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    If you really do love this job, then don't let this rude preceptor drive you out, because you will look back and have regrets and think, "I wish I would have ignored him and stuck it out, I loved that...

  20. Are nurse's all that and a bag of chips?

    westieluv replied to Nash3222's topic in General Nursing

    ???? What does this even mean? I have been an RN for 26 years and taken care of hundreds of patients, but I have never remotely "sacrificed my life" for anyone. This sounds beyond self-important and...

  21. Policy for Patients Leaving a Chronic Unit

    westieluv posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I'm just wondering if any of you could weigh in (no pun intended) on what your chronic unit's policy is for when patients leave after their treatments. In the chronic unit I worked at previously, the...

  22. Policy for Patients Leaving a Chronic Unit

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks for your replies. So it sounds like I am overreacting if this is done in other clinics the same way. I think it wouldn't bother me so much except that sometimes the person that the patients...

  23. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I don't feel abused at my job at all. I get enough breaks, it's just that I don't work in a typical setting, I work in an outpatient dialysis clinic. The work flow in a dialysis unit ebbs and flows....

  24. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I can see how you could feel this way, and if I still worked an acute inpatient floor and had my bag nearby I would feel the same way. However, I work in an outpatient dialysis clinic where we wear...

  25. Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

    westieluv replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I bought some relatively healthy trail mix (assorted nuts, raisins, etc.) and some of those little snack sized zippy bags at the store today and am planning on putting about 1/3 cup of trail mix in...