HD to PD

CFrancine, BSN, RN · Dec 9, 2017

I was in your exact shoes and made the move this year. The PD is easy. Working in an office setting and realizing how much behind the scenes and the associated paperwork is the hard part. Also, you're not just doing a treatment and walking away. You manage that patient and get to know them very well. You look at their treatment info online and call the patient when things look off. I think it was a great move as I didn't want to be in the hospital long term. I don't get on here often but PM me if you'd like to know more.

AZNurse2015 · May 18, 2019

I'm also hoping to move to PD. I truly believe I will love the job, but am wondering how competitive I am:

1 year outpatient HD experience, 5 years acute rehab/med surg experience.

Would also be applying to DaVita, but my experience is with Fresenius...anybody know how much of a chance I stand?

Thanks!

Hoosier_RN, MSN · May 30, 2019

On 5/18/2019 at 4:07 PM, AZNurse2015 said:
I'm also hoping to move to PD. I truly believe I will love the job, but am wondering how competitive I am:
1 year outpatient HD experience, 5 years acute rehab/med surg experience.
Would also be applying to DaVita, but my experience is with Fresenius...anybody know how much of a chance I stand?
Thanks!

Did you get the job?

AZNurse2015 · May 31, 2019

No. Perhaps I asked too much salary (I should have been vague about it, in retrospect), or perhaps my one year on a HD floor wasn't enough.

There are other positions that may be opening in the nearish future though, I am keeping the eyes peeled.

In the meantime, any comments are definitely appreciated!

Hoosier_RN, MSN · May 31, 2019

Sorry to hear that. In my area (central Indiana), both companies hire internal candidates first, but they interview just about all viable applicants just in case--your salary requirements, unless ridiculous, would not have had much effect on hirability. If you have any friends that are currently working incenter (chronic clinic), ask if this is the case in your area. If so, you may need to go back to incenter for a while, if you're not currently doing HD. The last PD opening in my area, which I applied for with 1 year HD experience but 20+ years nursing experience, went to a nurse with 12 years HD experience, and all other applicants were in that boat so I didn't stand a chance. But it did let my clinic manager know that I'm interested in growth. Good luck with your future endeavors, let us know how things pan out!

AZNurse2015 · May 31, 2019

Thank you, Hoosier! Any inside opinions are very valuable to me, and your experience might have been a very close parallel to mine-I'm thinking I was by far the least HD experienced of all the applicants. And so the plan is to go back to incenter, keep my foot in the door and hopefully be able to barge in whenever a PD opportunity arises.

Would have private messaged you to say thanks, but the system doesn't let me.

Take care!

Hoosier_RN, MSN · Jun 1, 2019

AZ, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I love incenter, but would love to learn PD!

Good luck!