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  1. What exactly means diuresis?

    kdunurse replied to healthresearch's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    In your original post, you said your understanding of diuresis was "normal excretion of urine". Many of us replied that it is not. If you're looking for specific examples, consider osmotic diuresis,...

  2. What exactly means diuresis?

    kdunurse replied to healthresearch's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Oh my - healthresearch is from Slovenia, according to his profile. So a non-native English speaker thinks he understands the meaning of diuresis better than a medical dictionary, or a bunch of...

  3. What exactly means diuresis?

    kdunurse replied to healthresearch's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    What do you mean by, "I have finished a medical faculty"? What exactly are your medical qualifications? And can I assume that you are not a native English speaker? I'm not going to argue with you...

  4. What exactly means diuresis?

    kdunurse replied to healthresearch's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Not to be blunt, but the dictionaries are

  5. What exactly means diuresis?

    kdunurse replied to healthresearch's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

  6. Is turning the utrafiltration off ok?

    kdunurse replied to nurseREA's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    One more thought - if solute drag with ultrafiltration affects clearances that much, why do we do sequential ultrafiltration and

  7. Is turning the utrafiltration off ok?

    kdunurse replied to nurseREA's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I've done some searching (why is it so hard to find good information regarding dialysis?!), and it sounds like backfiltration became a concern with the switch to high flux dialyzers. When you do the...

  8. Is turning the utrafiltration off ok?

    kdunurse replied to nurseREA's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I thought that most of the waste products are removed through diffusion rather than ultrafiltration, and that ultrafiltration regulated the amount of fluid removed. Some solute will be removed with...

  9. Late patients

    kdunurse posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Our dialysis unit has been struggling to find a way to deal with a few of our patients who are chronically late. We run 2 shifts, so if they are late for first shift, the patient who follows them has...

  10. Late patients

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

    What is the legality of this? Aren't you still not complying with the physician's order when you take the patient off early? Or are there some kind of standing orders that cover patients with behavior...

  11. Late patients

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

  12. Late patients

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

  13. Davita RN Job/Clinical Duties

    kdunurse replied to Yayamaya's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Our dialysis unit has a very short orientation period - 6 weeks for new grad or experienced nurses. I agree that it takes the better part of a year to feel comfortable. Our unit structure is a lot...

  14. Dialysis nursing care models

    kdunurse posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I work in a 19 chair out patient facility, and am sitting on our unit's care council. Currently all of our nurses have a list of primary patients (approx 4-5 patients per nurse). The primary nurse is...

  15. HD orientation?

    kdunurse posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I just finished my first week of orientation on a 19 chair hospital HD unit - most of the patients are outpatient, but some inpatient (I will be learning acute dialysis, but for now just the chronic)....

  16. HD orientation?

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

    I may not have been clear enough - in our unit, there are only 2 PCTs so the nurses string and tear down the machines, program them and start and end treatments. In other words, we do the work of the...