04.01.2009
This week I've started my hemodialysis hands-on at the Ospital ng Muntinlupa (Muntinlupa City Hospital), a government hospital. Its dialysis facility is majority owned and operated by B. Braun Avitum/Aesculap Academy on a percentage-sharing basis with the city hospital.
The facility is staffed by superb, very competent hemodialysis nurses and a technician, with cumulative experience in excess of 15 years, although the facility itself is less than a year old in operation. I would like to commit my trainers' names to memory, as I will forever be indebted to them for the initial nursing skills I'm acquiring in the specialized field of hemodialysis nursing:
Head Nurse - Angela Pitero
Staff Nurses - Elvis Ubas & Wency Rose Chua
Dialysis Technician - Edgar Santos
I, together with my co-trainees Mariel Jade, Mutya, Baron, and Nestor, am discovering that hemodialysis nursing is a mastery of nursing skills, machine, equipment, and the whole gamut of human interaction and emotions.
Setting up and priming blood lines and dialyzer are skills my preceptors can do with their eyes closed and under five minutes. I can do it in 30 minutes or more, with clamps and ports (believe me, there are many of them) still erroneously open or closed and with air bubbles still in the system!
In a facility with just three dialysis machines, and with a patient to machine ratio of 2:1 for a 10-hour shift, the hemodialysis nurse ought to be able to move with both swiftness and fluidity, and at the same time be able to provide adequate patient monitoring and care, and essential nursing interventions as called for.
My goal is to be able to do as such.
This week I've started my hemodialysis hands-on at the Ospital ng Muntinlupa (Muntinlupa City Hospital), a government hospital. Its dialysis facility is majority owned and operated by B. Braun Avitum/Aesculap Academy on a percentage-sharing basis with the city hospital.
The facility is staffed by superb, very competent hemodialysis nurses and a technician, with cumulative experience in excess of 15 years, although the facility itself is less than a year old in operation. I would like to commit my trainers' names to memory, as I will forever be indebted to them for the initial nursing skills I'm acquiring in the specialized field of hemodialysis nursing:
Head Nurse - Angela Pitero
Staff Nurses - Elvis Ubas & Wency Rose Chua
Dialysis Technician - Edgar Santos
I, together with my co-trainees Mariel Jade, Mutya, Baron, and Nestor, am discovering that hemodialysis nursing is a mastery of nursing skills, machine, equipment, and the whole gamut of human interaction and emotions.
Setting up and priming blood lines and dialyzer are skills my preceptors can do with their eyes closed and under five minutes. I can do it in 30 minutes or more, with clamps and ports (believe me, there are many of them) still erroneously open or closed and with air bubbles still in the system!
In a facility with just three dialysis machines, and with a patient to machine ratio of 2:1 for a 10-hour shift, the hemodialysis nurse ought to be able to move with both swiftness and fluidity, and at the same time be able to provide adequate patient monitoring and care, and essential nursing interventions as called for.
My goal is to be able to do as such.
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