TBRooks. When returning blood you can let the saline return on its own or with your hand, squeeze the bag. Not sure why some do it, guess they figure it is time saving. Are there parameters i.e. BP...
What are the various policies on epo dosing .. As of April 06, monitoring of epo by CMS will be when hgb is 13. Am curious how various units are monitoring? Is BP evaluated when dose is increased?...
Nephro: You sound like you are certainly seasoned and your education is appreciated. All patients have draws done on Monday and returned on Tuesday except for the afternoon shift which the post labs...
What are your standard procedures for when a patient's URR drops, let's say, ten points from 73 to 63 in a month. What I don't quite understand, as well as many of my corworkers is that if this...
I can not understand why some units use the same bath on every patient. To me, this is not individualized care and all patients are being treated the same without due consideration of what their K+...
What about contracting yourself to one of the larger i.e. FMC, DaVita? You can ask for more money and pay your own insurance and benefits. Might work. Have met alot of traveling nurses and they love...
This particular patient, over a year. But many patients are not educated for many reasons, as well as staff not being able to take time to provide full education. Many patients (older individuals)...
I would also like this information. One of our patients had slight pain in the area of fistula during dialysis. One tech suggested flipping the arterial needle. I was surprised as the tech asked the...
New to dialysis. Squeezing bag referring to fistula not cath. Some staff have said ok, others say learned not to squeeze. What causes BP to be elevated after return of blood when BP good during...