Hey lets change the units into boxing rings !

[KICKSTART]

Well we might as well! From what i hear we come out battered and bruised , swollen and sore , at least we would get a chance to hit back !  My nurse was on another planet today when she took me off ..i have a cath in my neck/shoulder. Turn flush , turn flush , clipped off those small clips on the lines, turned ..and nearly pulled me out the bloody chair ..she had got her glove caught up in the clip ..boy oh boy am i sore tonight ! 
What have they done to you ?

[sullidog]

We hee a nurse that does that all the time. They need to be careful especially with catheters.
Troy

[iketchum]

I had a nurse practitioner make a typo on my dr. order and tried to take 4 extra kilo of fluid off. I caught it in time and stopped her.

[Des]

Mine keeps on putting the wrong "kidney" on the machine, the wrong pump speed and I constantly have to remind them to read what the doc wrote.

Now I ask you, what about those ignorant patients?  The old and fragile ? Who checks on the nurses for them?

They hurt the crap out of me EVERY time.

[RightSide]

Once a tech started to move my dialysis machine across the room to clean around it, forgetting that I was still hooked up to it via my catheter.

That hurt.  Good thing she didn't push the machine any harder, or she might have yanked the catheter right out of me.

[RenalSurvivorDotCA]

I know all my treatment parameters by heart now. Too many times I've had a nurse miscalculate the fluid removal and ended up crashing cuz it just wasn't there to take off. I also put my own needles in because I used to get all bruised up from them digging around AFTER sticking the needle in.
More than a few times the nurse put me on but didn't clamp the saline bag off and I ended up getting a whole bag of saline infused into me.

[Riki]

we must have all good nurses here or something.  The only time they tend to make mistakes in my unit is after we've been disconnected from the machine.  One nurse was disconnecting me, and unscrewed the line from the needle from the line going to the machine, and forgot to clamp the clamp on the needle line.  Made a bit of a mess, but that's the worse I've seen in the unit.  Outside the unit is another story.  It was one of the nurses' mistake that cost me my PD catheter.  When it came apart during a tubing change, she just screwed it back together.  Apparently, procedure dictates that when that happens, you are to start over, and change the tubing again. It turned out that I had a fautly tubing extension, as one night, I got up out of bed and it fell right off, but if procedure had've been followed, I would have had a new tubing extension, and I wouldn't have had the trouble that I did