NurseRies BSN, RN

Nephrology, Dialysis, Plasmapheresis

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    Dialysis staff nurse salary in US

    NurseRies replied to bambam123's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    California paying similar amounts.. Good luck finding a place that doesn't outsource
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    Obamacare? How will it affect dialysis?

    NurseRies replied to workingmomRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Issue 5: Medicare Secondary Payer Kidney failure is the only chronic disease that automatically qualifies an individual for Medicare, regardless of age. Dialysis patients have the option to continue...
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    Obamacare? How will it affect dialysis?

    NurseRies replied to workingmomRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    The new rules also say that the patient can only use private insurance for so long and then they are required to use Medicare. Don't get
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    Any other dialysis travelers?

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

    Me too! But no responses yet.. I'm still a newbie, but I have talked to all the major dialysis travel companies. I might be able to answer your questions?? But I was hoping for some input from a...
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    Obamacare? How will it affect dialysis?

    NurseRies replied to workingmomRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

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    Dialysis staff nurse salary in US

    NurseRies replied to bambam123's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    What
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    Dialysis staff nurse salary in US

    NurseRies replied to bambam123's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    What state is
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    Orientation period- strange requirements, is this legal?

    NurseRies replied to NurseRies's topic in Travel

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    Orientation period- strange requirements, is this legal?

    NurseRies posted a topic in Travel

    So last week was my first week in a new location. When I arrived, I went to the office to sign the typical paperwork. I am an acute dialysis travel nurse. The next day I headed to the hospital for...
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    Orientation period- strange requirements, is this legal?

    NurseRies replied to NurseRies's topic in Travel

    Well, assignment is almost over. Nothing really changed, the job is what it
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    Starting Training for Acute In Patient RN this Monday

    NurseRies replied to jschut's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    In my opinion, your style of hospital would determine what to focus on. Are you doing all 1:1 treatments with portable machines? If so, you should invest a lot of time into machines troubleshooting...
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    What is psych nursing really like???

    NurseRies replied to ifhn10's topic in Psychiatric

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    Dialysis nursing - New graduate

    NurseRies replied to brooklyn03's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Make friends with your techs, don't walk in acting like you are too good to clean up a spill or assist a patient from the waiting room. Try to come into the unit being very pleasant because these...
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    Dialysis staff nurse salary in US

    NurseRies replied to bambam123's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    South Carolina new grads in dialysis making $22-23, most people with experience there make $25-27. If you can handle acute dialysis, they usually make more, $28-32 an hour. Plus you get call back pay...
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    Tax season!! Tips and what not to do.

    NurseRies posted a topic in Travel

    I would love to hear some of the things that seasoned travelers have learned in their experiences filing taxes. What to do, what not to do, ways where you can claim job expenses. Do you hire...
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    What is psych nursing really like???

    NurseRies replied to ifhn10's topic in Psychiatric

    Dialysis is somewhat of a revolving door. People either hate it or love it. Maybe somehow you could shadow in those departments to get a real feel for the job. Dialysis is great in acutes because you...
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    I am so confused

    NurseRies replied to greenlettuce's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It may be better to get your bachelor's degree completed at your current university. Meanwhile, get on a waiting list for a second degree nursing program. That means its only for people that already...
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    What is psych nursing really like???

    NurseRies replied to ifhn10's topic in Psychiatric

    I too hate bedside care.. I simply can't do it and admire those that do. Have you ever thought about a specialty like cardiac cath lab, surgery, or dialysis? With your experience, you could prob do a...
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    Acute HD nurse- training for CRRT, apheresis, etc

    NurseRies posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hello all, I have been an acute dialysis nurse for a couple of years now and wondering how much different is CRRT/CVVH therapy? I would love the opportunity to train in these settings, but haven't yet...
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    Tax season!! Tips and what not to do.

    NurseRies replied to NurseRies's topic in Travel

    Thanks! I sent them a question and hope they get back to me soon. I am just really hoping I don't owe thousands of
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    A month into my first assignment...how it's going so far.

    NurseRies replied to cosmicmama's topic in Travel

    Can you elaborate on how you lost thousands of dollars by taking the free housing and also what to do and not to do. What about filing taxes? I too, was born and raised (near) columbus, ohio.
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    what to know about dialysis

    NurseRies replied to stavros_rn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    At my company, which was pretty Large, they said you never point either needle down in a graft. I don't know the reasoning, but I looked up the guidelines and it says that arterial needle can be faced...
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    what to know about dialysis

    NurseRies replied to stavros_rn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    At the clinic I worked for, some dialyzers were reprocessed over 80 times. I don't remember exact cut off point to throw them away. For an AVF, you want to ALWAYS point the venous needle towards the...
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    Acute inpatient RNs: cell phones during treatment

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

    Of course! But there is quite a but of down time. And despite what I see some acute nurses do.. I NEVER leave the room, not even for 30
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    Acute inpatient RNs: cell phones during treatment

    NurseRies posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Just wondering what do most of the acute dialysis RNs do during their 1:1 treatments? A lot of places do all bedside treatments, and the patient is fairly stable, chronic dialysis patient, and has a 4...