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Does the hospital issue a color code for the patient??? We were gonna do colors in a hospital I used to work at.. The Chief of Sugery was color blind loll... :kiss

Right after you..... 2 months is new?? Do you suppose I might have engaged my brain by reading here before opening my mouth? As for persecution.... as long as the OP continues to discredit MY peers I will defend them.

Where will a union find nurses to ease all this?

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttttt :Melody:

I guess you've read all of the OP's other posts here and you read Earle's also. The OP doesn't want to learn.. She continues to ask the same nit picky questions again and again until she gets the answer she wants .. I didn't say I was perfect.....

Take a look at this site.. http://www.sjcme.edu You do have to go to Maine for a couple of weeks in the summer but so what..............................

Dialysis has been "dumbing down" for years. In it's infancy dialysis was only done by Physicians then only RN's and now techs.. Some of the technical aspects are acceptable to be performed by techs. i.e. sticks. After all teenagers are inserting IV'...

Isn't this just a bit of a harsh answer.. After all the woman is trying to learn...

Proprietary... When I worked in Danbury CT the NM there did her master's thesis on reuse. Her conclusions were that it is actually better for the patient also. I wonder if I can find her work.. Maybe I'll do some digging.. Here's something from a qui...

How many months do you suppose a nurse has to have to work in an ICU?

No ignorance is erased by accepting knowledge.. And saying I know people don't make mistakes intentionally means they do make mistakes..

If HER only reason for all the questions were knowledge that would be fine. I wonder if you really read what SHE writes here????

Excuse ME????? Go and read some of your previous posts..You've just implied here in this very post that staff make mistakes... "KNOW that staff do not intentionally make mistakes" What DOES that mean?????? The best way to understand something is to d...

Jnette, I believe the OP wanted to know if NOT getting the 3K+ bath for the first 40 minutes of treatment would affect the patient.. Yes, it might. K is dialyzed out. The standard bath is 2.5K+. The patient probably had a low K level from the last ...

Probably one of the wash tubs from the late 70's early 80's :rotfl:

First of all my mother died when I was three years old.. Of acute renal failure.. I guess you missed my post stating that the OP here continually infers that nurses, techs, etc are making serious mistakes often.. And I'd say to you.. Why aren't you a...

Let me get this correct ??? He delegates his duties? Thinks he knows everything..How so? Feels he nevers does anything wrong? Labels you as the "bad guy" with allegations that you don't do your job? Not a team player?? How so? Not a patient advocate?...

Try lying their arm across their chest.. Then you can feel the rise and fall of their respirations as you count their pulse.

One of the problems I have with you is that you always seem to think the dialysis unit, tech, or nurse is at fault in eveyone of your senarios (sp). And you keep asking the same question over and over to get the answer you want ..Very similar to a pr...

Personally,,,,,, I believe you are a disgruntled family member and possibly a paid volunteer for the prosecution... And because you aren't able to give an accurate assessment of the situation I refuse to give you ammunition. I still say the red wand...

As an experienced hemodilaysis RN since 1997 I'm telling you that without acid hooked up, a 2008K Fresenius machine would beep low conductivity.. The acid was probably plugged into the wall where the patient couldn't see it. The unit probably has ce...

I guess you know of all of all Imperial's history then eh.. You of course do know that Imperial is an inspector, correct.. Looking for mistakes in dialysis units??? I would hope that an inspector would know more than this about a discipline they are...

I'd expect the patient to go crazy listening to the dialysis machine beeping constantly as only having bicarb running would put the machine out of conductivity.. Again imperial your questions don't make sense and really show your ineptness in the fie...

This might be related to taking B/P meds prior to dialysis. Many antihypertensives dialyze off leaving a patient with elevated B/P's. Recent thoughts on some anithypertensives have been to take some and not others. I believe those ideas haven't been...