silverfoxxy

What are current FMC policies now, Davita policies?

How long and what type of training is given to those with no dialysis experience?

What are your thoughts on squeezing bag of saline versus allowing saline to return blood via regular IV infusion. Have read that the squeezing is just for staff to save time. What is done in different units?

How else could one get a copy of this manual that is put out by Amgen.

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 will be 20 pts higher when you return blood?

Take a look at their financial reports that will tell you something!

want to know more about how fmc looks upon epo dosing. and, other companies.

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? Who determines when to decrease epo amount? FMC poli...

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 pre/post lab draws monthly are done on one day how can t...

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 come back on Wednesday. Thank you again

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+ levels might be. So, if a patient's K+ is 6.4 or 3.0...

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 it as they have said they do not have to put up wi...

Thanks Amy and Nephro.

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) might not understand fully details. Patients who are...

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 patient, "do you want me to flip the needle?". I wo...

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 treatment? Like to get others opinions as many in unit...

And what is wrong with this picture? The companies are making more money then they can spend, profits are up, just check any stock quote or article that talks about purchase of units. I guess all the talk about patients coming first is not true at ...

Recently I have been reading messages at dialysis boards. I am horrified at what I am hearing from patients. All negative. What gives? I don't understand how patients can be so neglected. I want to learn about dialysis and understand why things are s...