I WORK IN ILLINOIS AND WE DO NOT REQUIRE AND LICENSE. YOU ARE SENT TO CLASS OR CLASS WILL COME TO YOU SOMETIMES. A CNA OR MEDICAL BACKGROUND OF SOME SORT IS ALL U NEED. TRAINING IS PROVIDED.

This is what happens when local administrators have their bonuses tied to staffing ratios. They will always staff a skeleton crew so their staffing numbers look better to their bosses. This is not uncommon...but it is always dangerous.

The ratio for nurses now is 15:1. Ideally it is best to have 10:1 but not anymore. Techs are 4:1. Dismal ratios - and even the charge nurse is required to take a stable patient and give meds for the other 15. I really do think more patients should do home therapies to get them out of the centers and provide self care. I can't see these ratios improving either, unfortunately. Nurses aren's drawn into nephrology - it can be quite mundane especially when all you do is push meds. Good techs leave, nurses leave. While I am a dialysis nurse, I feel the techs should be compensated much more for their work - they are the backbone of caregiving to dialysis patients in center. The quality of techs however has been decreasing - lack of education, no incentive for retention, etc. Dialysis care is bad and will get worse.

Amen, RenalRN.


Amen.

Has anyone thought to call their state and ask what is considered unsafe for the patients?

give me the # for the state of florida please.