Davita

I have worked for Davita for 6 months, and it is absolutely terrible!!!! The nurses are completely disrespected by the patients, pcts, and the FA. A nurse just this week was denied her raise because she called out 5x in 2008 with a doctors excuse and was denied her pto time when she tried to use it for her sick days!!! Ridiculous!!1

I was also denied my sick time and was told I had to use my entire Pto first before it would be touched!!! Considering I called in only once for a 3 day period with doctor's excuse. Company I am with now I just bought back 40hrs of my sick time for not calling out in a year. Was a nice chunk to pay for that new washer I needed lol. Wonder why I never got that exit interview corporate says it gives?

What company do you work for? You can send info to my personal email jubby66@aol.com. Thanks in advance.

Your post gives me hope. I have been a nurse since 1979 and have not found my niche yet. I have my first interview this wednesday with Davita in St. Louis, Mo area. I am nervous but excited too. I've read so many bad things on these posts about Devita, and so I hope my experience is more like yours. Thanks for the positive note!

I work for a DaVita in Florida. 16 chair unit, 4/1 ratio, FA is great, charge nurse does not take patients, we have a PCT and LPN for each 8 chairs. So each day we have 1 RN, 2 LPNs, 2 PCTs and a reuse/PCT for 16 patients. PCTs are allowed to take care of cath patients. The FA and AA order all supplies. We have never been told to cut down on using supplies or do we ever run out. Nurses work hard as do the PCTs. The only person that runs the unit is the FA (non nurse). We do have techs that have been there for along time, they know the patients and are asked how they would do things by the charge nurse. The final say comes form the FA or the charge nurse. I have had no problems with DaVita. Pay is good and so are the benifits. I pay $52 each pay period for my benifits which includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability. A job is what you make of it. The grass is not always greener on the other side.

That is wonderful that everything is working out great for you, but I have come to realize that the management is what makes or breaks a clinic. Your FA and AA seem to be doing a great job however it is not like that at all the Davita clinics. I felt like I had put up with a lot because I liked who I worked with and liked the pts. The whip that broke the camel's back was when the clinic was super short staffed, the FA had already worked on the floor a few days in a row (not including the doing her own work), the whole clinic had put up with a lot, the manager over the FA (forgot the name)was making a lot of changes on aesthetics on the clinic, just let me say that it had been a few very bad weeks. Any way the manager kept on me and the FA about getting the monthly or yearly assessments done in the computer (remember we have shiftly assessments on all the pts), these computer assessments had been building up from the previous FA who left, mgr said that me and the current FA would be written up if they were not done. Other clinics had float nurses come in to help so they could get the assessments done, but she would not do that for us. At my clinic, turnover is very high. In the year I was there about 5-6 pcts, 3or4 LVNs, and a few Rns, and 2 FAs have come and gone, just in the 1yr that I was there. That should say something. Anyway, good luck