Author: Nurse Germz
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My Book of the month April 2025 picks
My Book of the month April 2025 box is finally here. It’s been like ages waiting for this book and today is April 8. I used to live on the east side and I can receive the box in just two to three days. Imagine! Anyway, Book of the month has 5 picks for this…
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Nurse POV | The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Of all the guesses of putting pieces together as who’s done it, I only got one thing right. It’s the bag that Barbara retrieved from her house. Multiple Timelines The multiple timelines surprisingly add more mystery to the story, a way to show clues and just keep your mind boggling. I started to figure…
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Dialysis Access Recirculation on Friday the 13th
Thought my day started with luck because I was only TECH-ing (worked as tech instead of a nurse) this day when suddenly a venous pressure alarm gave me an eerie feeling. High venous pressure with no signs of clot! I tried detaching the venous lines to check the patency of the venous access—100% patent; I…
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The Closing shift | Float Dialysis Nurse between Two Clinics
The Closing shift literally just means the last shift in a dialysis clinic. If it’s a big clinic that consists of two dialysis nurses, one is assigned as the opener while the other one as the closer. The small clinics may also have a different arrangement where the opener dialysis nurse works alone in the…
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A Day in the Life of a Dialysis Nurse | Doing both PCT and RN roles
Exactly 9 months ago, July 25th, I started working as a dialysis nurse in my training facility 5 minutes away from my apartment. Two months later, September 12th, I was transferred to a different facility 35 minutes away to fill in since the regular nurse resigned. Today, April 24th, 2023, I’m back to my training…