Day in the Life of an ACUTE DIALYSIS NURSE | What It’s REALLY Like + On-Call Schedule

Imagine basically working your entire nursing shift, finally clocking out, driving home, taking a shower, getting comfortable, and then your phone rings. You turn around and go right back to the hospital because you're the on call dialysis nurse. You might not even get home until 1:00 in the morning. Oh, and technically, you're still on call until

6:00 a.m. That was one of the realities of working in acute diialysis I definitely didn't understand before I got into the specialty. I worked as an acute diialysis nurse for about a year before eventually dropping down to PRN. And now I work full-time in an outpatient dialysis clinic. So today I'm going to break down what an acute

diialysis nurse actually does for what my day looked like starting at 6:00 a.m. How we handle three patients at once, ICU treatments, diialysis access, the crazy on call schedules, and the things I loved and absolutely did not love about acute dialysis. Keep in mind that I'm talking about my experience at my facility. Acute diialysis can look

differently depending on the hospital company staffing and policies. So let's go ahead and get into the video. And it goes a little. [music] >> So first when I say acute diialysis, I'm talking about providing diialysis to patients who are currently admitted to the hospital. That doesn't necessarily mean that every patient suddenly developed kidney failure. Some of our

patients were already chronic dialysis patients who happen to be hospitalized for something else. And then you also have patients who are critically ill or have an urgent need for diialysis who are like our new start patients. At my hospital, we had our diialysis unit where multiple patients would receive treatments, but we also went off unit