12/02/2026
Hindi talaga mawawala to sa mga kabaro natin mga nurses 🤦🏻♀️
Be kind. Stay humble.
“Let’s clear something up about dialysis nurses.”
I work in acute inpatient dialysis. I walk into ICU rooms alone. I assess. I calculate. I hook the patient. I start the treatment. I monitor every second. I end it. No tech. No backup in the room. Just me and a machine keeping someone alive.
We manage CRRT, PD, IHD, even pediatric cases. We handle crashing pressures, critical labs, access issues, codes. We adjust fluid removal by the minute because one wrong move can send a patient spiraling.
Lazy?
There is nothing lazy about standing for hours at the bedside while your patient fights to stay stable.
There is nothing lazy about carrying full responsibility for a treatment that can literally mean life or death.
There is nothing lazy about being the only dialysis nurse in the hospital overnight.
We don’t just “run machines.”
We run critical thinking.
We run rapid assessments.
We run life-sustaining therapy.
So before you question whether I can handle the grind, understand this,
I’ve been in the grind for 12 years.
Med-surg, ICU, COVID, OB, Surgery, OR, Public health, name it.
I’ve seen the grind in every form, short staffing, 12-hour shifts that turn into 16, pandemic chaos, critical patients, emotional exhaustion. I didn’t survive all of that to suddenly become “lazy” in dialysis.
This is the grind.
And we do it alone, with skill, precision and zero room for error.
Mic dropped.🔥
