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  1. PT/INR home testing

    iriskkerry posted a topic in Home Health

    Has anyone heard anything about an FDA recall on the INRATIO machine????? I cannot find anything on the web about it and I LOVE that machine but my boss told me this morning I cannot use it...

  2. Reduced Biling Rates-reduced Pay?

    iriskkerry posted a topic in Agency Nurses

    I RECIEVED A LETTER FROM MY AGENCY YESTERDAY THAT STATES THAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REDUCE THEIR BILLING RATES THEY ARE REDUCING OUR PAYRATES AS FOLLOWS RN's -$4,00 an hour LPN's - $3.00 an hour and...

  3. Reduced Biling Rates-reduced Pay?

    iriskkerry replied to iriskkerry's topic in Agency Nurses

    For the record, I finished the shifts I had committed to, and then went elsewhere. I did not feel bad about my

  4. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    And then count it again, and if they don't like your answer, you'll be weighing every teeny tiny

  5. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

    iriskkerry replied to eernuts's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Fresinius equipment is most common, and I believe, the

  6. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

    iriskkerry replied to eernuts's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I would contact your local network for ESRD first. I'm in network 7 here in SE Florida. And, for many available freebie advice, contact your local Epogen provider and other drug companies that market...

  7. Reduced Biling Rates-reduced Pay?

    iriskkerry replied to iriskkerry's topic in Agency Nurses

    No Suzanne RN , they are not. I am close to the contractor and no changes whatsoever were made. BTW, I found your answer a bit presumptive as well as

  8. Advice needed please

    iriskkerry replied to JillRNColorado's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Why would you consider taking a job for $22.00 an hour in an area of the country that is DESPERATE for dialysis RNs? Trained or untrained, ask for 26.00 and if you don't get it, walk away and go...

  9. Clamps

    iriskkerry replied to PLTSGT's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi PLTSGT. Generaly most of us use them for pts who for one reason or the other cannot hold their sites post tx, like paraplegics, those with handscramps,

  10. heparin dosing

    iriskkerry replied to Dialysis RN1's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    My first thought is of course to ask the nephrologist. My second thought would be to first try none at all, reassess, and start low with loading dose if that first treatment presents with clotting...

  11. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi Cocoa and Jnette. I too had a wonderful charge nurse who had been at that difficult clinic for SEVEN years! They would not match the lousy 2$ pay raise that another clinic had offered her. What a...

  12. Banner Good Sam surprise

    iriskkerry replied to bellaweez's topic in Travel

    Hi Bellaweez, so sorry to hear about 'road trip'. Did you happen to read the 'similar threads toward the bottom of your post. Seems you are not alone. Hope you will find work , Phoenix is nice this...

  13. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks Delana. I have decided that there will be no legal action taken. This would only serve to hold my focus on this horrible thing. I need to move on and put it behind me. I will not be the same...

  14. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks for the warm reply. Everyone who knows my work ethics is shocked by what happened . Yes I have often thought of traveling, but, my first move is going to be to have this removed from my record....

  15. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Wll I'm back. They fired me. Here are the two reasons they gave. 1. The staff of th hospital where I was assigned to do acutes by Fresinius (assigned in July by the woman who just fired me)does not...

  16. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hi and thank you for your responses. After waiting 24 days, I finally got a call today from the clinic manager.She asked me to meet with her and the Regional Manager tomorrow @ 3 PM. I never recieved...

  17. Fresenius medical care...taking over dialysis unit HELP!

    iriskkerry replied to hodgpodge's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Decided to put my quandry here, for obvious reasons. I need to know what other RNs would do if faced with this dilema. In July '07 after a year of sharing a charge position in a 'hellhole' clinic I...

  18. So How Long Does the Misery Last?

    iriskkerry replied to HardworkinRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I'm by no means an expert here, but, I can share what draws me to dialysis. Maybe it will help. I love the process. It has a daily beginning, middle and an end. It has short term goals (even tho at...

  19. Fresenius

    iriskkerry replied to Sirena922's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Sirena Fresinius also offers 80% tuition

  20. Training at Fresinius

    iriskkerry posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I applied for a job at the local clinic. They insist that since I've been out of dialysis for almost 10 years that I take their 6 week traing classes. Here's the catch, in order to be able to take the...

  21. one nurse for 24 patients

    iriskkerry replied to prometheus0219's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Fresinius??????

  22. Training at Fresinius

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

    1940: That's why I took the first Dialysis job that came up. I want to travel but you have to have recent dialysis experience. This is the only way I know to get it. But now I'll be stuck there for a...

  23. Training at Fresinius

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

    Thanks Jolie, couldn't they do whatever they want with you once you have completed the training knowing you cannot leave? I find it a bit

  24. Anyone doing any travel dialysis nursing?

    iriskkerry replied to theresa_b's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thank you, that will be very helpful,

  25. Anyone doing any travel dialysis nursing?

    iriskkerry replied to theresa_b's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    bdhdrn, where can I find info from 'on assignment' and ppr? I'm searching as you are to go with the right co., thanks,