Big career mistake, resigned after 6 weeks. - Register Nurse DaVita Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I worked with some great people who really cared about the patients. Excellent opportunities for non-clinical staff to rise through the ranks. Good training for people with no clinical experience to develop a career in Dialysis.

Cons

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.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The local team was great. The FA was the best. She knows how to lead and to build a team. Helping the patients and their families was the best part. Knowing you were helping them improve their quality of life was very rewarding.

Cons

Upper management. All the executives care about is money. All management above the FA level was terrible. Always cutting your hours even though you were full time. People in charge that have absolutely no experience in healthcare. Management and executives who don't understand medicine and how healthcare works or should be. They bully, don't support, and try to find things to get you in trouble. They want the nurses to only use AI instead of thinking and doing what is best for the patients. When I started with DaVita, it was a great place to work. Since the business people took over at the top, it has gone downhill and is simply awful. I do not recommend working here.

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