Clearance

[Panda_9]

Everyone has the right to do whatever they want with their dialysis, but in the long run it might catch up with you.

[Zach]

Everyone has the right to do whatever they want with their dialysis, but in the long run it might catch up with you.

Sounds about right.     

[Zach]

In the States, that form is called an AMA-- Against Medical Advice.

The 'catch' at my unit is, sometimes the nurse will get you to sign it, but then screw around with other patients so long that by the time they come over to you and disconnect you, it's almost the time when you would normally be coming off the machine, anyway. 

It's interesting that when nurses decide to take people off early because they have too many patients coming off at the same time, you NEVER have to sign that paper-- you only have to sign it when it's YOUR idea to end treatment early. 

With the old Baxter dialysis machines, the clock counted down in 6-minute increments.  So when it read "1" that would actually mean 6 minutes to go.  One could often see the staff ending treatments for a number a patients when the clock read "2" meaning 12 minutes actually remaining.         

[kevno]

You should have been on the Lucas Dialysis machine NO CLOCK That was is the 70's the Machine usually managed too crash your BP in the first hour. With the six feet keele dializer/kidney. All us children on the unit used to be really sick. Not like know when you can usually tell when your BP is dropping, then it just fell so quick

Now never more than 1kg up. In the past Had one or two of those AMA to sign. With coming off dialysis with 2 hours+ still to do. Now might still come off with ten minutes left on the clock. Might not be a nurse around to take me off, so I might stay on 10 minutes longer.

[Russ]

What ticks me off is when the clinic puts me on 20 minutes late, that's alright.  But if I'm 10 minutes late they cut my run time even when nobody will be using my machine after me.

 

[angieskidney]

What ticks me off is when the clinic puts me on 20 minutes late, that's alright.  But if I'm 10 minutes late they cut my run time even when nobody will be using my machine after me.

 

Really? Mine never cuts my run time except for the one time I was an hour late because I was sleeping when I should have called my ride 

[BigSky]

What ticks me off is when the clinic puts me on 20 minutes late, that's alright.  But if I'm 10 minutes late they cut my run time even when nobody will be using my machine after me.

 

If no one follows you they really shouldn't cut time.

I agree that units can cut time.  But only to those that make it a habit to consistently not show up on time or if someone doesn't show up on time and someone follows them.  In that case the person who was late should lose time,  not the person who was on time that follows them.

[Panda_9]

If no one is on the machine after you then generally that is closing time for the unit. That is why you time will get cut. If you are late, well thats pretty much tough luck.