AcuteHD

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1. Consents for inpatient acute hd

   AcuteHD replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   Our hospital requires a consent for every admission, even for chronic pts and the ones that use the hospital for their routine treatments (uninsured). How does your hospital do blood

2. Nitro patch on HD?

   AcuteHD posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   The acute HD nurse that I trained with would routinely remove the nitro patches from pts prior to HD and said they are incompatible with dialysis. With everything else that I was trying to learn at...

3. The future of hemodialysis?

   AcuteHD replied to Chisca's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   It looks like it went through a 'successful' trial 16 months ago, so where is it now? I can't find anything about it recently. What really caught my attention was that it recirculates the dialysate...

4. Help. Acute dialysis nursing

   AcuteHD replied to laureneve91's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   I don't get paid per treatment, just hourly, but expect feast or famine. In my personal experiance I've never had a problem getting enough hours and have plenty of PTO banked up if needed. I work 4...

5. Tempered water for portable RO?

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

   Update: My biomed talked with her boss and we all agree the water temperature is fine, the logs are

6. Tempered water for portable RO?

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

   What's in the carbon tanks

7. Tempered water for portable RO?

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

   Okay, I looked at this some more and I think our checklist is wrong. 18C is a great temp for both the RO and the HD machine, and our upper limit is way too high. (too late to edit

8. Tempered water for portable RO?

   AcuteHD posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   Where do y'all get incoming water for portable treatments from? All my hookups are from the cold water side and the water is COLD! Usually around 18C this time of year which is okay per mfg specs, but...

9. When a patient signs out AMA...

   AcuteHD replied to Lev's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   What about pts that sign out AMA but need EMS transport? Is the hospital supposed to arrange

10. The Dark Side of Nursing...

    AcuteHD replied to maeli's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I've only been to our mourge once and it was definitely a low person on the totem pole job. Anyone that's never transferd a 250 lb body has no idea what dead weight really

11. How can I get experience in Dialysis Nursing?

    AcuteHD replied to allen80's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    That's easy. Find a brick wall and talk to it about Potassium, Phos or Fluid control. Then procede to bang head against said

12. Membrane size and cardiovascular status?

    AcuteHD replied to MizChelleRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Too late to edit, but I should have said I am using what I have on hand as an example. Don't know what size dialyzers you are using. Thanks for the

13. Membrane size and cardiovascular status?

    AcuteHD replied to MizChelleRN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    The F200 has a prime volume of 112 mL, the F160 is 83mL. 29mL doesn't seem like enough to make a diff, but maybe. Also, unless you are wasting the prime, you're replacing blood with equal volume of...

14. Renal diet and label reading?

    AcuteHD replied to tsm007's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Yes! If binders are ordered for meals they should be given with all food. There may be a meal dose and a smaller snack dose. Not all renal pts will have binders ordered, but it's kinda rare not

15. Renal diet and label reading?

    AcuteHD replied to tsm007's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Sorry, should be 0.8 G / kG /