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You can't drive to dialysis because you feel so ill after dialysis you might not be able to drive home. So you wait patiently either for a relative who is getting really fed up with driving you there and back 3 times a week, or for transportation who...
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A renal patient finding happiness in the hemodialysis unit."I've never been this happy." As said by a patient given love and care by his dialysis nurse. A phrase that will tickle any ear especially if heard from a man, a father, very weak, on hemodia...
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Has your facility recently started your 5 diamond projects for ESRD NETWORKS? For those of you who have never heard of it, it is like a 5 star rating for hotels. You achieve a star for each of the projects you implement into your facility. The aim is...
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Why are chronic hemodialysis patient noncompliant? This is the $64,000 question. With Medicare demanding more and more from providers, we must get creative in ways to encourage our chronic hemodialysis patients. First, we need to explore why our pati...
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Due to the rapidly exploding incidence and prevalence of disease processes that harm the kidneys such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus, the patient population at freestanding dialysis centers is growing by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, some o...
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So, you've just left your doctor's office and your head is full of information, too much information! Words , numbers, medical terms you just don't understand. Maybe this has been happening gradually over a period of years or suddenly out of the blue...
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When I was doing my finals many years ago I was faced with discussing 2 specialties one was Looking after the renal patient the anatomy and physiology, the other the CVA/Stroke patient or as now we talk about it as the brain attack pt. (In days of ol...
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One of the benefits of working in Dialysis is that you get Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Years day off! Which is a wonderful thing for staff and patients alike. It means they can have normality for the holidays, spend it with their family, enjo...
