Are Your Kidney's OK??

So March 13th was World Kidney Day. Being a renal nurse my fellow nurses and I decided we should definitely participate. Last year we did a traveling road show throughout our hospital, educating non-renal nurses on the care of our delicate patient population. This year we had more time to plan so we decided to do a community health screening open to the general public. Being the chairperson for our unit-based council, I was sort of elected to head things up. We started planning at the end of last summer and met monthly until the big day. None of us had ever done anything like this so we called on the advice and expertise of marketing, administration and many more. I was way stressed about the whole thing and woke up about 3 times the night before. We had no idea how many people were going to show up so we decided to limit the number we would screen to keep it manageable. The screening started at 8am but there was a lobby full of people by 7:15. We were mobbed throughout the morning but managed to handle it all. The day turned out to be a great success and we all breathed a sigh of relief. I think though someone else can be in charge next year.