Cwalz5

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1. Advice for family...

   Cwalz5 replied to Cwalz5's topic in Urology

   Thank you all again.. just one last update.. my grandfather passed away Tuesday morning... over the last few weeks his dementia got worse.. he started hallucinating and forgetting who we were and really wasn't eating... my family was with him on Fath...

2. Advice for family...

   Cwalz5 replied to Cwalz5's topic in Urology

   Update: I was able to speak to my grandfathers primary doctor for this admission and told him about our dislike of how pushy the nephrologist was being and asked if it was worth talking to a different doctor. He initially said the result would be th...

3. Advice for family...

   Cwalz5 replied to Cwalz5's topic in Urology

   Thank you all for responding... I wish my grandfather still had the mental capacity to really tell us what he wants but after these last 2 rounds of hospitalization and now being in rehab his mind hasn't returned to baseline. His kidney doctor pushe...

4. Advice for family...

   Cwalz5 posted a topic in Urology

   This may not belong in this section but I'm not sure where else to put this.. I'm a medical ICU nurse so my main experience with dialysis is emergent/ temporary... anyway.. my grandfather is 85 with heart failure (ejection fraction 25%), asbestosis, ...

5. Leaving my first nursing position

   Cwalz5 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello, i love this site and the great advice that can be found here. I couldn't find someone else with this question and so this is my first post. I've been working in my first nursing position for over a year (not counting the first few months of o...