Pros
Many opportunities for CEUs and maintaining your credentials.
Cons
Much too corporate and numbers focused. Upper management is very cliquey and doesn’t understand the needs of the healthcare worker. Much too high of a patient : dietitian ratio, bordering on unsafe, because they refuse to hire more people. You will be worked to death. Plus, dialysis schedules are just awful, no matter the job role. If you want to go in at 4:30am or leave at 11pm (or later), then dialysis may be okay for you. Not a lot of job security or stability if you are a part time dietitian. They will most likely try to make you drive everywhere under the sun to cover multiple clinics, even if they promised that you would cover only one or two clinics (if close by) upon hire. If you speak out against this, they push you out and dump your patient load onto the already overworked full time dietitians. Just overall bad experience for me. If you get a good facility administrator and coworkers, you may be able to be shielded from this for a while, but the corporate nonsense always catches up to you and it’s not an environment I could be around anymore. I couldn’t adequately care for my patients due to the million other requirements that DaVita imposed on me, and I only had two days/week to do it all (and see patients/perform clinical responsibilities). I wish I had better things to say about DaVita. Started out strong, as I did learn many new things, but quickly went downhill and was not sustainable.
