I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Dialysis: Workers => Topic started by: payats on November 08, 2006, 05:42:27 PM
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Since I experienced that some of them are nice :) but some are mean... >:D
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Since I experienced that some of them are nice :) but some are mean... >:D
Yes, indeed I have met some VERY nice nurses and some very nice techs. But I also have met some techs and nurses that should never have become nurses/techs in the first place.
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Me too. For the most part they are understaffed and over run with work at the units I have been in. So moods can change according to what kind of day the staff is having!
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Currently, we have some great nurses.
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I have not yet started Dialysis, but the closest unit to me has been and done 2 home visits , one before I had my fistula and one the day after i got home from hospital just to see how i was going ,She seems very nice so far , she also rings me every few weeks, she has to travel a 70km round trip to visit. :)
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I really like all of my dialysis nurses. Yes, they are all nice to me. However, they are different levels of niceness! What about yours?
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For the most part I am very happy with the entire staff at my dialysis unit. There are good days and bad days, but then, I run 4 times a week and 4 hours at a time, and I've been at it for 5 years. I spend a lot of time around them.
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I changed hospitals about four months ago and they seem to better organized and have more time with each patient. I'm happy with all my nurses at my new hospital. At my old hospital most of the nurses where very good, but there was one that I did not like at all. She seemed to know it all and not listen to patients needs. That really gets to me when they see you as the job and the sooner they get rid of you they get to go home. That was just one out of so many.
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I have an excellent unit and all the nurses are really nice. There is one in particular who is responsible for looking after me and I have become really close to her. Is it just me or does spending 16 hrs a week in someone's company create a special relationship? I think I'm falling for my nurse big time!!!
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Nurses, IMO, are only as good as the patient. Meaning, if we have a bad attitude it will be sure to run over to the people around us. Sometime, just sit and watch in your unit...there are people around you that are just looking for someone to blame. Nurses, in general, got into this field because they love and want to help other people, that feeling is still there, its just sometime, we the patient are the ones who make people mean. Try to get to know your staff, they are people too, and maybe just get tired of hearing how bad WE have it.
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Most of mine are nice but there are times when I feel like I am just a job to certain ones and that they would rather I not talk or not be apart of my own care.
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Most of the nurses I have had are pretty good. Only had a few I didn't much care for.
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All of mine are really good. They manage to mix well humour with being professional and it's great. Well as great as you can have in this kind of environment. Number 1 is always paitent wellbeing/health. I've seen them going from chatting and having a laugh to rushing to someone in trouble.
The best part is a lot of them actually LISTEN to you and care and not just about health stuff.. but if, for example, I might mention I'm going to dinner somewhere nice etc they'll ask about it next time they see me, or ask about family or whatever.
Really great people!
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Nurses, IMO, are only as good as the patient. Meaning, if we have a bad attitude it will be sure to run over to the people around us. Sometime, just sit and watch in your unit...there are people around you that are just looking for someone to blame. Nurses, in general, got into this field because they love and want to help other people, that feeling is still there, its just sometime, we the patient are the ones who make people mean. Try to get to know your staff, they are people too, and maybe just get tired of hearing how bad WE have it.
I appreciate your comments about nurses in general, and I have had painful experiences with angry, bitter patients using me as their doormat, but it would never make me mean (just sad). Most nurses indeed have a "calling" to go into nursing to make a difference and help people, but there are certainly some who have no business in nursing; frankly, I sometimes wonder what possessed them to choose nursing!
Nurses are trained to deal with "difficult" patients and not to take it personally, but we're only human and sometimes wonder why a particular patient seems to hate us so much. Patients play games sometimes, trying to gain favor with some staff and alienate others ("I don't want you to stick me!!! Only --- may do it!") I always respect that, and don't have a problem with it (sometimes, only certain workers can stick a certain access), but it's the way it's sometimes said. Still, it would never make me mean and try to "punish" that patient (by getting them on late - employees can play games too, but I won't).
I do know some nurses who have no business being nurses - but they are. You can't always tell easily - sometimes patients love them, perhaps because they get them on fast (they don't realize the shortcuts they take which put patients at risk for infection and other problems) or off on time (perhaps by cutting their time without a doctor's order; I have seen that happen.) My point is just, there are all kinds of nurses (and techs - many of your caregivers aren't nurses at all), good and bad.
But thanks again for your comments, and those of others as well! It's good to know we're appreciated.
DeLana :thx;
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Ya like today. My nurse took me off 1 min early. She is normally at the hospital dialysis unit so she seemed to forget that I know how to run myself back (rinseback) so she turns the machine and I was thinking "I am done already? I didn't hear the done alarm..." and turns out I still had 7 to 10 ml to take off (i know not much but ...). Then when she was running me back she stopped it early and I was thinking "I could get more blood back than that but my Hemoglobin is 120 (12 for you Americans) so I didn't really say anything because I am worried about clotting with it that high anyway.
Also when I first came in they had my dry weight wrong again (they never put it into the computer when they change it) and I told her it should be at 64kg and not 63.5kg because I will crash or my BP will drop before my run is done at that target. She changed it but not without arguing at first about how I was wrong and that I was probably thinking about what I was coming off at and not my target. I was thinking, "I am in Self Care which means I learn how to set up my own machine and understand my numbers! I think I know my frickan weight target!!!"
Also I am picky who cannulates my AV Fistula! This nurse wasn't actually supposed to be my nurse but what happened is it was supposed to be my first day of Button-hole but my nurse just never showed up for work they said. I asked the nurse I had what would happen if after we start button-hole the nurse doesn't show up ... and the one cannulating me doesn't know button-hole.. what would happen? I said I was disappointed that we still were NOT doing button hole. She asked why? I said because I am developing scar tissue by the cannulating me in the same spot all the time since the spot the arterial goes in there isn't much options. She looked at me and said, " but with button hole they cannulate you in the same spot all the time!" And I had to explain to her why this wasn't good when NOT doing button hole. I told her how it can hurt the fistula. How they should be doing the ladder technique. I was getting frustrated because it seemed here I had to TEACH the dialysis nurse who was cannulating me on the day I was supposed to learn Button Hole!
Plus I think sometimes patients might be rude or whatever because they are feeling so crappy and misunderstood or not listened to.
But I like a nurse who listens and works with a patient. I have some really nice ones.
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Nurses are trained to deal with "difficult" patients and not to take it personally, but we're only human and sometimes wonder why a particular patient seems to hate us so much. DeLana :thx;
I've recently seen a few patients really treat the nurses like their own personal doormats. We have this one really nasty patient who really pushes it too far. Whatever you do for her isn't good enough. I've tried to talk to her a few times before dialysis but she seems to be just miserable. I can understand not feeling good and not wanting to be there but deal with it. For example I'm on for 4 hours so they take me in first before people who have lesser time. When she happens to see this she always makes a remark to me like "there goes the Princess" or "who does she know in there" or something like that. She's only on for three hours! But she demands to be put on before anyone else. She has a hissy fit if she has to wait. Most of the time they try to pacify her but she's getting nastier and nastier.
Donna
EDITED: Fixed quote tag error - Sluff, Administrator
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My dialysis nurse is so nice. They called her when I was in the ER last week to ask a question about my catheter. I was sick, but it didn't have anything to do with the catheter, but she called me the next day to check on me because she was worried about me! Wow! I was so impressed! That really meant a lot to me. She is very nice and she seems to genuinely care about her patients.
I have two nurses when I get chemo, one of them is also very, very nice, she makes sure I get a blanket, she keeps checking to make sure I'm not sick, she takes the time to talk to me when she can. I wouldn't say the other one isn't nice, but she doesn't act like she cares very much. I get really, really cold when they're giving me the chemo, and the second nurse will never get me a blanket. I have to get the chemo treatment for 5 hours, so I'm usually there from 9:00 am to 2:00 p.m., so, the first nurse always orders me a lunch from the hospital. The second nurse never does. She doesn't ask if I need a drink, nothing. Just sticks in the IV and leaves. She only comes back if the alarm goes off on the IV.
I know, I should be more assertive, my sister keeps telling me if I get the second nurse to just tell her "I need a drink, a blanket, etc.," but I hate to make waves.
By far, though, the nurses I deal with are very good and very dedicated. I really appreciate them.
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I have been in the hospital so much that I feel I understand the nurses well enough to get along with most of them .. but some .. some seem like it is just their job and compassion is not a natural part for them..
Let me tell you about last year with my favourite hemo dialysis nurse Janine. The reason she is my fav is because she SHOWED me what a good nurse she is by her ACTIONS! I had just gotten out of the hospital but was still going to the hospital dialysis instead of self care because I wasn't healthy enough yet for doing my care myself. I still had Pneumonia and had to be on oxygen since my Oxygen level was too low. They also didn't know what my dry weight was since I had circumstances that made my weight drop by over 20 lbs in the month before I was hospitalized. I was having complications and had to go to the ER (Emergency Room) after dialysis but I was on evenings so it was late and there was no one to stay with me when she brought me there and it was the very end of her shift. She actually stayed an hour past her shift with me. She is such a great nurse who made sure I was ok and taken care of. I have had other nurses that while taking care of me aren't even paying attention to what they do so Janine in comparison was AMAZING!! Now THAT is what a nurse should be! Commpassionate and going beyond her means when she sees it is the right thing.
But patients can be rediculous as well. There was this one from out of town that made the nurses just roll their eyes. She was only here for 3 days I think but she was so demanding and questioned everything like "what are these clamps on my arm? Where can I get some? Can I take these home?" then sees me and asks me where she can get them and asks if I am a nurse (I had the clamps on my arm but that didn't clue her in). She was so demanding of the nurses and didn't seem to realize that she didn't have her own personal nurse but that the nurses have to take care of the other patients as well.
I can understand both sides but I also realize that we are all human. I just want the nurses to take me seriously. They always judge me on looks. Today the nurse kept calling me a "youngin'" and making references to how I wouldn't know because I am so young. I was trying to ignore it. Let it roll off my back. But after 3 or 4 times within the first 10 min I was getting kinda annoyed at her assumptions.
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About the only thing I really like about my centre, is the awesome attitudes of my nurses and techs. Everyone has a very loving, compassionate attitude, and I have become very close to them, particularly two of the nurses. There have been a few times where I've felt very bad about my situation and was very depressed (fortunately that doesn't happen very often). When ever I feel like that, there is always someone there for me. A few days ago, I had one of my really bad days, and as I was leaving the centre after my treatment was finished, my favourite nurse stepped in front of me, hugged me, and just held on while my tears flowed. That level of compassion she had for me when I needed it the most is one of the biggest things that gets me through my bad days. Thank you God for the staff at Dialysis Institute of Northwest Indianapolis. I love them all :2thumbsup;.
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I do home hemo, but have to report once a month or call my nurse if I run into problems...she is super great!...nice, compasionate and with a great sense of humor. She treats me as an individual, which I appreciate big time.
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Wow! Just re-reading this thread..Can't believe I posted here nearly 4 months ago..seems just like yesterday!
Well, I still love the staff in my unit. I say staff because it's not just the nurses but the clerk and the lady who comes and brings us sandwiches and a cup of tea and cleans the chairs and stuff.
I think you can't help but to become involved in some way or other with the staff, and them you... in my case I spend 15-16 hours with them a week.. so that's like 2 working days worth... so kind of like a part-time job... and so you get to know the people because you talk, and laugh, and try to keep things light.
Lately I've been taking some jelly beans in to give me a bit of a sugar boost in the last hour or two of my session (this was a suggestion from my fave nurse)... except now she eats more than I do! LOL.. I think I see why she suggested it!! LOL :D
I don't mind though.
I have already promised that WHEN I get a successful transplant (being positive here, folks!) I am taking them all out to lunch!! And I mean it! And hopefully I'll be able to drink more of them to celebrate!!!
(I live right near the unit, so it is an easy walk for me to go visit)
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I feel like I am doing time in my center now. There is a screamer who sets off at 5p.m. and hollers and yells till she comes off the machine at 7p.m. I have had it. I am looking to move centers if this is not taken care of pretty soon. They drug her up but it wears off. What are they going to do to her next? It scares me to watch this old lady sinking further into dementia, and noone is stopping to say wait a minute.
I like the tech and nurse that are taking care of me. They can't seem to keep staff in the unit for more than a year at a time. People come and go so fast it is hard to keep a relationship with them, knowing they may leave soon. One nurse has said she is leaving five times now and has not left yet. Eight years now in the same unit.
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I don't really understand the staff at my husbands unit-i mean, they are polite and all, but they are not personable or friendly. You do not see too many of them talking in general conversation with the patients. There is one fella who has been deployed three times to Iraq that talks to my husband a bit-which he certainly appreciates. And there is a young one who is friendly when she answers questions-but the rest pretty much ignore him-even when they are working on his machine. They have definitly gotten the point across that he is just a number.
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Most dialysis nurse's just consider what they do their job, no need for person connections with patients.
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Most dialysis nurse's just consider what they do their job, no need for person connections with patients.
I find this to be true with some Techs BUT there are some techs (and Thank God for them) that truly care about you and not only talk to the patients but listen as well. I think alot has to do with the way the patient treats them (the techs) also. IMO ::)
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Most dialysis nurse's just consider what they do their job, no need for person connections with patients.
I find this to be true with some Techs BUT there are some techs (and Thank God for them) that truly care about you and not only talk to the patients but listen as well. I think alot has to do with the way the patient treats them (the techs) also. IMO ::)
Very true. I think certain jobs require you to be a little social and have a personal connection with people and should be considered before going into that field, ya know?
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Sorry glitter & angela but I am glad I am not in your units... the nurses in my unit do care and always chat (if you want and they have time)... I certainly don't feel like a number when I am there.. plus it is great when I walk in and they greet me by name eg "Hi Richard! You're in number 5 today" or whatever. I think it would suck to be in a place where it wasn't like that.. :( Maybe it happens with larger units with lots of spots and patients... ours is pretty small so i guess it is easier for them.
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There is one tech in my unit that I just don't like. I am always overhearing her talk and complain about not wanting to be there. "I'm ready to go." "I need to get off the floor." Complaining about this and that. She sounds like some of my old employees (waiters and waitresses) that just always have something better to do than earning money. Only difference is, my employees were mostly college kids who just want to earn some fun money (restaurants are great for that.) and this tech is actually a care giver for individuals who have to have it. I think I should try to get her a job where I used to work.
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I agree with RichardMEL,
my unit is basically the same and I enjoy chatting to all the staff. I pretty much know all about their home - life and they know all about mine and all the other patients. It helps the session go by quicker if you can chat to them and have a laugh. They are even taking time out in my unit to teach me how to prime my machine and set it up, why?... coz I asked them to.
I bring them in a tin of chocolate every month as my way of saying thanks for all that they do for me. You can argue they are only doing their job but if that's the case how come they know all about me and stop to chat to me??? I wouldn't ever wish to go to a different unit now as my one is GREAT and like RichardMEL, I love all the staff there.
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Mattyboy, consider yourself one of the lucky ones, as you have read, there are many units that really dont take the time to know their patients, which is a shame cuz i think it would help their days go by a little better too. Glad to hear your happy with yours and how thoughtful of you to take them chocolates each month, they are lucky to have you too. :2thumbsup;
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Sorry glitter & Angela but I am glad I am not in your units... the nurses in my unit do care and always chat (if you want and they have time)... I certainly don't feel like a number when I am there.. plus it is great when I walk in and they greet me by name eg "Hi Richard! You're in number 5 today" or whatever. I think it would suck to be in a place where it wasn't like that.. :( Maybe it happens with larger units with lots of spots and patients... ours is pretty small so i guess it is easier for them.
Richard, I'm not on dialysis, silly boy. :P
I wasn't on hemo anyways when I was on dialysis, i was merely commenting on the subject of the topic. ;D I was saying that most tech's just consider there jobs as "jobs" and no need to be personal, and thats why they are the way they are... however I agree with you and I think they should be personal and a people person. :P
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You can argue they are only doing their job but if that's the case how come they know all about me and stop to chat to me???
Hun, I'm not arguing that, :lol; I was commenting to another's person's post and offering them a reason as to why their nurse's weren't personable. :P
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Well Angela you're not the first lady to say I am a silly boy, so I'll add you to the long list :D
I have taken chocolates for the staff.. more recently for Christmas I brought them a bunch of stuff from the Body Shop like hand creams etc.. Just the other week one of them commented to me how awesome it was and hos some visiting nurse was jealous they had this stuff for their hands that was so nice... so I felt pretty chuffed that i got something good for them to use that wasn't just candy!
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Yes I do like my dialysis nurse. My nurse is on top of everyones charts and communicates professionally and personally with all of us there. Yes she is nice to all, yet i've been able to see she can have a attitude when a tech makes a mistake.
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I love my daughter's dialysis nurses..i have known them for about 15yrs
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The staff in my husband's unit are very nice and friendly. They chat with the patients and family members. I am sure there are occasion when they wish I would drop off the face of the earth but they answer my questions and generally do what I ask. I do wish that we had regular nurses assigned to patients but they seem to rotate shifts and patient assignments. The manager and assist. manager are always available and they are always up to date on my husband's status. All and all it is not a bad place to go -since he has to go.
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At the center where i go 3 times a wk every employee says good morning to me when i arrive and says goodbye when i leave as i pass them :2thumbsup;
if you notice my picture, it's standing in front of a x-mass tree, well that tree was at the center, i brought my camera in that wk and took pic's.
Guess i've been blessed to have been referred by my neph to be at a strong up to date center that is also adding to the center a training school for tech's.
I keep before me my health pre-dialysis and the improvement post dialysis. My blood pressure stayed around 210/110 no lower than 195/90, PHT over 500, CHOLESTEROL over 400, albumin off the charts, the list goes on.
After my first wk i started seeing my ankles after 8yrs of swelling, had 17% of one kidney working.
And from day 1 i show my appreciation in my attitude, there attitude is one thing, a good attitude over powers a bad one every time. sometimes i had to set the stage and when it's a day when i'm not there, then the strongest with a good attitude can come along and change things for the better.
When i need something, i ask and it's there, sometimes they tell me no, i smile and say ok, when someone really cares and is trying, the answer won't always be yes.
i would be dead today if they were not there for me and i know it. i show it even on bad days when i get stuck the wrong way, i role with it because i know they care and they are trying to help me a stranger at first.
I love the entire staff for loving me first. there is a solution to every bad deed and that's a good one.
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Star was loud and obnoxious, Lisa was a bitch plain and simple, Anna was ok, Joan was all business, Rudy was A-OK, and Kirsten was cute and sweet! :2thumbsup;
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My dialysis nurse is in the middle of this picture. My first tech. is on the right, my tech likes to be called "Addis" she's from Ethopia and I love her work, she also helps me with my diet, I'm learning to fast twice a week, veggies/fruits only for those two days. Addis (A-dees) she is so gentle and caring. I could go on all day about this tech and how special she is to the center.
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our current nurse is FANTASTIC but then we've had 5 since january 2006!! staffing is a bitch
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I do peritoneal dialysis, but i just wanted to say I really think a lot of my nurse. I can call her if I have any problems, she encourages me to call, and doesn't make me feel small if it turns out to not be serious, she'd rather I did, just in case! We've talked, and I feel I can be honest with her. I have a lot of respect for her.
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Sadly there are nurses out there who are in nursing only for the pay. Even sadder, the nursing shortage make weeding these nurses out almost impossible.There are a few reasons for this:
- Payscale. A nurse can make more money in home health, hospitals, and even nursing homes than in dialysis. The biggest provider is currently increasing the pay for nurses, but not enough to compete with other agencies.
-Advertising. In nursing school, I learned nothing about dialysis. I mean NOTHING. It simply wasn't mentioned. Now they do a short rotation thru dialysis during their training, but nothing compared to OB, Med-Surg, Peds, etc. Without that initial exposure, nurses will not be interested enough to actually consider dialysis as a career.
-Specialization. Dialysis nursing is a specialty. You have to be trained to set up machines, care for accesses and catheters, make rounds with MD, etc.
-Depressing Events. Dialysis patients die. Hesitated to write this, but it is a consideration. Nurses make attatchments to patients and are affected by their deaths.
- :secret; Demanding patients. Dialysis patients are a rather demanding set. This is not placing blame on the patients. The average age of patients in my clinic is approx. 65. Old age, numerous underlying health problems, numerous social problems all add to various complications with patients.
LOL :beer1; Was gonna type some more, but just received a phone call to go bass fishing. Will help ya'll rant later. Honestly hope no one sees this as a post in defense of bad nurses. There is NO reason a nurse should treat anyone differently than they would have themselves, or even better, their family members treated.
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I'm going to put another vote in for Renal nurses. My lot are all really wonderful.. some moreso than others but in general I think, because our unit is pretty small... with a heap of inpatients, but a smallish group of outpatient "regulars" like me (there for over a year now, some others much longer)... and you really do become, well perhaps not part of their family, but pretty close.. I mean you spend 15 hours a week with these guys which is fairly significant. They have all been wonderful to everyone.
The other thing I wanted to say was last year when my mum was dying - and she spent the last 2 months of her life in various wards of the hospital... for the last 6 weeks or so she stayed in the respritory ward. Anyway some of the nurses there were very average... but there was one nurse there who went above and beyond.. spent time with mum AFTER her shift was done, brought in pictures of her cat for mum's wall because mum loves cats etc etc.... just one of those special really dedicated people.
Prior to working in that ward where did she come from? Yep, you guessed it.. Renal.
A special, special lady.
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Last night i was truly irritated while at dialysis. It is the little things that can get to you after awhile in a dilaysis chair. It is not like I can get up and get the Tylenol I wanted for my headache. I asked for it once with my tech. I asked the nurse for it again. It seems when she got on the phone with the doctor she forgot my Tylenol. I can be understanding to a point, but I cannot get up and get it myself, so I am stuck there literally. I try to be patient, but come on folks, let's try. :rant;
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Kit, you should take some paper and a straw and make spit wads and shoot them across the room, i am sure that will get their attention ;) ;) Just my :twocents; :twocents;
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I sit in the front row of the center facing the door. Just who am I to spit the wads at? Some days it feels like we are on exhibition at the door. Maybe it would get me attention if I blew a spit wad at eveyone who came in the door...hmmm...Something to think about....
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I have two nurses I really like. One is a nurse practitioner in my Neph's office. She is always cheerful and friendly. She calls me "kid" even though I'm 55 years old. She always tells me the truth. Her name is Carol. And there's a nurse at the Dialysis Center who is really nice to me. She is extra-careful when she cannulates me, she is very friendly, she comes in and chats with me about anything and everything. Today she pulled a joke on me. She got the first needle in with a little pain, the second just slid in like butter. She told me "It's not even in" I looked at my arm and it was in. So I called her a witch with a B. I smiled when I said it and she got the joke. It was my husband's birthday today and she wished him a happy day. She's a sweetheart. I only wish she was there every day. She's off for a few days. I'll be g;ad when she's back on regular schedule.
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First, techs who are permitted to cannulate me because they know what they are doing: Tracy's cool and funny and really knows her job, Pat D is friendly but business-like and also knows her job very well, Erica is great at her job and is about my age and actually talks to me like I have a brain and encourages me to ask questions, Ana is good with needles but low on patience as she screams, "Hurry up!! I have other patients!!" when I go to the bathroom before she sticks me because I make urine and don't run right to my chair like non-urinators do, and Dawn, who's only been doing this for a year but has talent and is very careful what she does, and is extremely friendly.
Now, techs who are not allowed to touch me, because they are incompetent or nervous or other bad things: Martha is a big fat, smelly, psychotic bitch who acts like she is the best tech there, even though she can't hit the broad side of a barn with a tractor and even once tried to sexuallly abuse me. She also tries to argue with me when I tell her not to touch me...ever. Joey's nice, but seriously, who hired this guy? He has only been a tech for a year and acts like he is afraid to touch patients, for fear of hurting them , which he actually does in his quest not to. His heart is in the right place though, so I can't really fault him too much, but he's still not coming near me with anything sharp. Tasha is a nice enough girl (she's 3 years younger than I am), but she actually forgot to clamp me once, and I bled out, so I told her not to come near me (for my own safety), and Tanya, who's nice enough but far too new for me to trust her with my life like that .
Now, for nurses: Liz S. is a good nurse and friendly enough, Margie is good at her job, cool and jokes with me and gives me my Phenergan before I even ask because I :puke; during treatments and no one, especially me wants that, Penny is really good at her job, nice and jokes with me when she interacts with me, and Pat S. is alright but not really too friendly, does her job though, so I can't really complain.
Doctors: Doctor M. is a self- aggrandizing idiot who says the same thing everytime he sees me, and tries to wake me during treatments when I am dead asleep to talk at me. He is in love with himself, I think. Also, he treats everyone like a textbook case.
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Shout out to my homeboy Kenny in the Westside (west medical towers at Cedar Sini). To Kimy Kim and G-Dog Hollaa! Here's to keepin it real. Peace out. :bow;
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My nurses are all fantastic and so far I have nothing but praise for the job they all do. There's no one who isn't excellent with the needles and they are all caring, dedicated people. I just wish I hung out with them under different circumstances. LOL.
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we have a big turn over for techs and nurses mainly b/c of the administrator
she is the one who needs to leave
we have had good nurses leave b/c this lady is hard to work with
the techs leave also
there are a few techs who are her pets and they stay and they are not very good
go figure---- the let good nurses and techs go and keep her
ask the patients who are the employees worth keeping-------- we know
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our nurses are very nice. but there are a couple of techs that need to go.
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I like all of the nurses I have had in my unit except for one. He is not a regular nurse in my unit but one they call in when he is needed. When another nurse is taking a vacation or calls in sick, etc., they call him in. I tried really hard to like him but you know "that straw that broke the camel's back" happened a week ago.
First of all, several months ago he didn't check my chart to see that they couldn't pull off the amount of fluid it appeared I had gained. I still didn't know how to check my machine and didn't know to ask what was being taken off. At that point, the very most that had ever been pulled off without my BP dropping and me getting sick was 2.0 (liters?) He "tried" to take off 3.4!!! I got so sick! He kept giving me back fluid but I was so sick, I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital. I didn't go to the hospital but I was sick even after I got home from dialysis. This stupid nurse said he thought there must be "something in the air or something going around" and that was why I was sick. :urcrazy;
A few months later I noticed that whenever he was there, he just sat playing on the computer even when the techs needed help. One time one of the techs actually had to yell to him 3 times!! that he needed help before this nurse quit playing on the computer to go help.
So - the straw that broke the camel's back. Last week I had weighed in but my chair wasn't ready yet so I was sitting waiting near the front desk. This nurse was behind the desk and was getting injections ready. I could not believe my eyes! Evidently he had a cold or something. First he got up and was coughing and went and spit in a waste container. Ewww! Grossed me out. Then he wiped his mouth with his hand. He then goes and sits down to continue preparing injections without washing his hands or putting on gloves. He coughs all over the injections while he is preparing them, wipes his mouth and continues. As soon as I was called to my chair, I complained to my tech and my nurse. They were going to talk to him. I hope they did. I am waiting to see the director to complain personally to him also. I will NEVER allow him to be my nurse ever again.
I absolutely love all the other nurses in my unit but it just makes me sick to think about the bad nurse.
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Oh Lord..I think I would have had to have a tantrum right there in that chair......no way would I have allowed any of that stuff near me..I am bad enough about watching that they use gloves etc... :Kit n Stik;
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Liked all the Hot Nurses and techs. Especially the single Moms. My wife didn't for some reason.
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G-Ma
I did not let any of the stuff he prepared near me! I asked my nurse who prepared my injections before I told her what had happened. She had prepared mine. I was not quiet about complaining and to their credit, both my tech and nurse did nothing to try to quiet me down. Other patients could hear me and I wanted them to. ;D
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I'm very very fond of all the nurses and machine maintenance guys and receptionist and two techs at my small unit. They joke around with us and we actually have a lot of fun quite often. I always feel they care and some of us aren't always "easy". I don't use the staff for anything at all now but we chat and catch up and I feel very attached to everyone there, patients and staff alike. One very sweet older guy who I make a point of stopping by to say hello to, always lights up when he sees me and when I ask him how he is he says "Much better now you're here". I wish I worked there rather than dialyzed there but it's a good spot I think.
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I just wanted to say that I was very touched by my nurses yesterday when I went into dialysis.
They gave me a card (with a cat with a birthday cake on the front and a kidney on the back!!) and they had all signed it with lovely kind messages and sweet things. I've not seen them do that to many other patients... I guess that means they like me (although it could also be the rather expensive cake I brought in for everyone to enjoy !!!! :) ). It just really touched me that they would go to that effort and they all came and wished me a happy birthday and it was just very kind.
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Last night when I walked in to my center, I saw who my nurse was going to be - HIM! I realized that I hadn't told anyone that I didn't ever want him as my nurse again. So I marched straight over to one of the techs at the desk and had a little discussion with her. She took care of it for me and the other nurse on duty took over my care for the night. I don't know what they told him and I really don't care. Monday I will be calling early to make sure it is in my chart that I don't want him as my nurse.