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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 anymore???????

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 CNA's -$2.00 AN HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm furious!!!!...

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

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

Fresinius equipment is most common, and I believe, the cheapest

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 directly to clinics for renal patients. They will ...

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 condescending.:bowingpur

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 somewhere else. We must stop working for slave wages ho...

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, etc.

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 problems. Quite often during hospitalization the pati...

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 shame, she was top notch, taught me alot and the pa...

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 time of year?

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 person after this. Will be looking out for #1 alot m...

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. There is one law they cannot get around. It is di...

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 want me back there? 2. They found 3 treatments that ...

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 a return phone call from anyone @ Human Resources,...

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 was sent to a fulltime acutes position in a hospital...

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 times that goal is just keeping your head until the ...

Sirena Fresinius also offers 80% tuition reimbursement!:mortarboard:

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 classes I have to sign a yearlong contract whereb...

Fresinius??????

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 year!:angryfire

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 frightening.

Thank you, that will be very helpful, Kerry;)

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