The wait time to be hooked up?

[Robby712]

I have to wait sometimes an hour, but most of the time they get me on pretty quick.

AN HOUR!!!

Oh gosh...If I wait 20 minutes I make sure they know I'm unhappy.

If they had to wait an hour for me at the end of the day they would do the same to me.

[karen547]

Well i am on after an older man who takes at least 25 minutes after dialysis to clot! I try to get there early so if a chair opens up, i can sit there because I have little patience for waiting to sit in a chair for 3 hrs.

[Robby712]

Well i am on after an older man who takes at least 25 minutes after dialysis to clot! I try to get there early so if a chair opens up, i can sit there because I have little patience for waiting to sit in a chair for 3 hrs.

Gotcha.  If they have room they try and move those slow-clotters out of the way at my place.  Either them, or just the whole chair...

They need to do that to the guy...or just cocoon his arm in gauze and paper tape.    Sitting in a chair and doing nothing for an hour while waiting to sit in a chair and do nothing for 3 more hours is cruel and unusual punishment.

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My center has extra non-dialysis chairs for the slow clotters. There are some that take almost an hour.

[draven]

Sorry to say but my unit is the worst.
we used to be on time, but since renovations things have been very bad.

my shift is from 10:00 till 14:00. and i normal get to the unit at 9:20. sometimes i go on after 12:00 !!!!!
the reason for them running late is simple the don't open on time. and its no use moving to another clinic because they are all full.

There is a Elderly patient in a wheel chair who is dropped off at 4:00 am in the morning. and waits outside for the clinic to open.

we logged a complaint a month ago, but has not helped a bit.

[twirl]

Draven, sorry to agreed but yours does sound the worst..

[Ang]

I think thats mean that she put a note like that on you...............what did others say about that?

most  of  the  other  nurses  thought  it  was  funny