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asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Seattle Job update….(again)
So, in finding out more info about my dialysis job I was informed it was in a hospital. Cool, I thought, acutes! Then my...
So, in finding out more info about my dialysis job I was informed it was in a hospital. Cool, I thought, acutes! Then my...
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Disgruntled….
There was this day about eight months ago, I was working at 48 chair dialysis clinic. My area was in the back against the...
There was this day about eight months ago, I was working at 48 chair dialysis clinic. My area was in the back against the...
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Tips for new (and old) dialysis patients…
A collection of things I have noticed from my years as a dialysis tech.When you first start at a outpatient clinic get a ride...
A collection of things I have noticed from my years as a dialysis tech.When you first start at a outpatient clinic get a ride...
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I just don’t understand…
Author’s note:I love my dialysis patients, I really do. I couldn’t do what you do every other day. I’d be...
Author’s note:I love my dialysis patients, I really do. I couldn’t do what you do every other day. I’d be...
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Tip
A young male dialysis patient asked the doctor if he could play football. He is a relatively healthy guy, atheletic build, no...
A young male dialysis patient asked the doctor if he could play football. He is a relatively healthy guy, atheletic build, no...
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Freaking out…
Normally I am a very calm, rational person, not much really irks me or gets me too riled up.But I am having one those...
Normally I am a very calm, rational person, not much really irks me or gets me too riled up.But I am having one those...
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The man with the brown hat.
He had a brown fadora. It is as much a part of his routine as brushing his teeth. He tells us he only takes it off for...
He had a brown fadora. It is as much a part of his routine as brushing his teeth. He tells us he only takes it off for...
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Sorry
I don’t have much in me, I am worn out today and it has been a crazy, crazy day that could only be summized as: needle...
I don’t have much in me, I am worn out today and it has been a crazy, crazy day that could only be summized as: needle...
inghamb87 posted a blog entry
When Dogs Replace Dialysis Machines [pics]
Among the most interesting of the Royal College of Art’s ‘Summer Show’ projects was Revital Cohen’s...
Among the most interesting of the Royal College of Art’s ‘Summer Show’ projects was Revital Cohen’s...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Anatomy of a Dialysis Clinic: Accesses
Every realm of medicine has their own “medspeak“.In dialysis the most common word you are going to hear is...
Every realm of medicine has their own “medspeak“.In dialysis the most common word you are going to hear is...
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Heard from Nurses Station 6
Me talking to an a transgenered patient who dresses like a woman, has a female name, lives her life as a female but still has...
Me talking to an a transgenered patient who dresses like a woman, has a female name, lives her life as a female but still has...
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Sometimes…
Sometimes all it takes is a little kindness to bring out some beautiful smiles. Over 300 staff members and patients...
Sometimes all it takes is a little kindness to bring out some beautiful smiles. Over 300 staff members and patients...
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Where your Tax dollars go.
So we had this patient that was from, um, Mexico, he had been in the States for awhile and had been dialyzing with us for some...
So we had this patient that was from, um, Mexico, he had been in the States for awhile and had been dialyzing with us for some...
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How you weirdos found my blog…
I love when bloggers do this, so I am gunna do it…all are true and factual:i don’t want to nurse just...
I love when bloggers do this, so I am gunna do it…all are true and factual:i don’t want to nurse just...
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D-Fact
Ever wonder why dialysis patients are so cold? Temperature always a degree lower then is what many consider normal?All...
Ever wonder why dialysis patients are so cold? Temperature always a degree lower then is what many consider normal?All...
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Tired
Two codes in one day.I’m icing my left knee because I was on the cement floor doing compressions for twenty minutes one...
Two codes in one day.I’m icing my left knee because I was on the cement floor doing compressions for twenty minutes one...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Secrets and blood pumps
I am going to let you all non dialysis peeps in on a little secret, actually it isn’t a secret. If anyone were to ask,...
I am going to let you all non dialysis peeps in on a little secret, actually it isn’t a secret. If anyone were to ask,...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Third Shift
Okay children it’s story time.Huddle around, yes, let’s all sit indian style, I have a story to tell you. Names,...
Okay children it’s story time.Huddle around, yes, let’s all sit indian style, I have a story to tell you. Names,...
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Nerdisms…
So today was pretty great, Nurse R was the charge nurse today.I got to listen to some pretty “fluidy” lungs,...
So today was pretty great, Nurse R was the charge nurse today.I got to listen to some pretty “fluidy” lungs,...
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I understand…
When I tell them I understand, when they confess how bad they feel, how thirsty they are and how completely and utterly mad,...
When I tell them I understand, when they confess how bad they feel, how thirsty they are and how completely and utterly mad,...
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Eck, California, eck!
Gas has reached 4.41 a gallon, in California.I haven’t gotten a raise since gas was hovering around 3.00 a...
Gas has reached 4.41 a gallon, in California.I haven’t gotten a raise since gas was hovering around 3.00 a...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Say what?!
We had a patient SIXTEEN months ago stop dialysis because of a diagnosis that would ultimately end her life quickly.It was her...
We had a patient SIXTEEN months ago stop dialysis because of a diagnosis that would ultimately end her life quickly.It was her...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Luftkin Lowdown
With the news of the Luftkin dialysis clinic being spread nationwide, a few dialysis patients have been, shall I say, a tad...
With the news of the Luftkin dialysis clinic being spread nationwide, a few dialysis patients have been, shall I say, a tad...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
This might be an example that we have too much time on our hands….
Yep thats a saline bag with a happy face on it…no worries it couldn’t be used on a patient (especially after we...
Yep thats a saline bag with a happy face on it…no worries it couldn’t be used on a patient (especially after we...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Not so wild times…
I got an email today from the BossLady, the head honcho, the clinical manager who never comes to clinic, ahem,...
I got an email today from the BossLady, the head honcho, the clinical manager who never comes to clinic, ahem,...
asthepumpturns posted a blog entry
Crazy peeps
So to be honest I’ve been slacking in the posting department. My grandmother’s death shook me harder then I...
So to be honest I’ve been slacking in the posting department. My grandmother’s death shook me harder then I...
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