DaVita reviews

To be fair I quit after 6 weeks of training but these were some of my issues: Poor pay relative to previous work experience. Terrible healthcare benefits with huge deductible. The day shift started at 4:15 am. Full time hours doesn't mean 40 hours / week, could be as few as 32 hours depending on the patient load or schedule for that week. Strange cultural practices within the company... Created their own language / terminology used in professional life ie: "Coworker" = "Teammate", "Company" = "Village", "CEO" = "Mayor", "Resigning" (which I did) = "Voluntary Termination". The company developed a system for coworkers to report each other for company violations and encourage it, creating an atmosphere of mistrust among coworkers. I can go on for days, but.. 'nuff said.

Unsafe. Unfair. Unreasonable. 48 pts with only 2 RNs per shift with no backup assist, no breaks, and the pt turn-around happens all at once with the expectations by the required by the company - for example complete all charting on time without having to fib - for it to be within state compiance in case of audit is impossible, and every nurse I've worked with there has said that exact same thing. ADD THE FACT that if a patient bleeds out, strokes out, goes into seizures, or codes, (which happened often with OUR particular pt population), and the othe nurse has to assist you... that leaves 47 other patients without a nurse. Being this a fortune 500 company, the people running the numbers and monitoring statisics to stay within legal guidelines and trying to make their dollar spread as thin as they can get away with, do not even entirely know the job. And in addition they are the people costing themselves a lot more money than they think because employee turn over is so high because nurses aren't willing to jeopardize their nursing license and break their backs to do it just to satisfy the company's bottom dollar.