There are four “pods” at my dialysis clinic and each is staffed by a nurse and one or two technicians. I used to be in C pod previously but now I’m in B pod after switching shifts. They rotate the staff around so if you stay here long enough, everybody gets to work on you. I think the technicians rotate every three months and nurses rotate every six months.
Today is the first nurse rotation since I came back to this dialysis clinic. In total, there are four regular nurses and two supervisors that fill in when it’s busy, or if someone is out. Most are Filipino with one Hispanic and one Korean nurse. I know all of them pretty well because only the nurses can connect me to the machine because I have a chest catheter instead of a fistula.
One of the nurses said that six months is too short since you get to know your patients better over time. I have to explain to the “new” nurse my blood pressure history and why I’m on three medications since it’s all new to her.
Life with chronic diseases 