Burn out at Davita

[cn2007rn]

Anyone starting to burn out in dialysis, I work in home dialysis and getting so tired of davita's management, and all the reports they require, and all their expectations. Anyone else experiencing this??

[Coleebee]

I burned out quick at DaVita Chronics. I hated it, loved my patients...hated everything else. You are not alone. Management was a joke, and more and more expectations were piled on me. I had little or no help and my manager (also an RN) was a waste of space.

I gladly got out after 10 months...it was a living hell.

[FransBevy]

DaVita's computer systems time warp me back to 1983. Takes hours to enter the simplest requests. When will they figure out that a new program will allow nurses more time to actually care for the patients.

[NurseRies, BSN, RN]

Anyone starting to burn out in dialysis I work in home dialysis and getting so tired of davita's management, and all the reports they require, and all their expectations. Anyone else experiencing this??[/quote']

I have had jobs that burn me out in dialysis. If you like the field, try a new company, you may be surprised. Or maybe just get a cushy part time to rejuvenate if you can afford to! Good luck... I think we all go through burnout sometimes .

[cn2007rn]

Thanks everyone! Glad I am not alone, I am transferring units in a few weeks so if it doesn't get better will probably cut to part time and find a per diem in something new and fun!!

[Guttercat, ASN, RN]

I've said it before, I'm not a huge fan of the Wal Mart-ization of the dialysis industry that has occured in the last twenty years. I liked the diversity we once saw: patients and staff (by voting with their feet) played a key role in whether a facility lived or died. Crappy, poorly run units didn't always last very long-- call it the Darwinian effect. Now, there is no such market pressure as the free market has been distilled into corporate monopolization (also a result of the Darwinian effect, but for different reasons).

However, both of the Big Two do do some things very right. A few things wrong, too.

Just a word of advice: If anyone is a current employee of any facility/company (or ever hopes to work there again), I'd caution against complaining about that company on a public forum.

OP, sometimes, the sensation of burn out is really nothing more than having a bad day (or a bad month), and not true burn out.

True burnout means one gets chronically stale, cranky, and dull

--a loss of passion and enjoyment for the work, and finding that the "edge" that keeps one sharp and on their game is gone.

I hope your situation improves.

[fragino]

Although the big two are very big companies that virtually monopolize the industry in the U.S., individual clinics can sometimes vary very wildly in their work environment. Transferring is a good option if you can. Look around.