Opinions of Roberta Mikles BA RN - Dialysis Patient Safety Advocate
www.qualitysafepatientcare.comFirst, I am not a physician but would recommend the following:
(1) The staff, if having these difficulties, should be investigating further e.g. contacting the physician or even the interventional nephrologist to determine why there is a problem
(2) You should contact the interventional nephrologist and let him/her know what is happening --perhaps he/she can give some insight or even tell you all is okay which would settle your mind a bit --
(3) Of course, the staff should also be inforning your own nephrologist
When my father used to go to the access center, often we would bring back diagrams, etc.. asking for such in order to educate the staff -- the interventional nephrologist often told us the reason my father was having problems was due to the incorrect methods that staff were using to cannulate -- when we would bring back diagrams of where to cannulate, WOW staff would become defensive and even, one day, the unit medical director, his nephrologist, lashed out at me and how dare I make the interventional doctor draw a diagram -- etc telling me he did not want to and that I forced him into doing a diagram of where staff were to cannulate - I told him that it was not my problem and that obviously there were problems between he and the interventional nephrologist -- the problem.. one doctor stepping on another's territory -- they hate it...
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