5 weeks left!

Hi ladies. Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

With just 5 weeks to go, I'm officially done with my modules and am now doing staff relief working on a combination of disease states. Since this hospital is not very large, this is actually more realistic work experience now because there aren't enough patients for each RD to specialize in any one particular area.

Last week I finished up the renal module, and found that I could relate to these patients more so than on the other floors. As many of you know, my father was on dialysis for several years before finally receiving a kidney transplant a few years ago so I have an insight that I found very helpful last week. Basically I just felt a little more confident when talking to these folks, especially those who were going home to face maintenance HD for the first time. I also happened to talk to post-transplant patient who's history looked eerily similar to my dad's, down to the exact same complications they are both experiencing right now as a result of their AV fistulas still being implanted. So that was weird. I'm spending the day at a dialysis unit this Wednesday, and I've already been told that I'm being put to work immediately, so that should be an interesting day and hopefully a nice change of pace from the hospital.