difficulty in getting dialysis nurse job

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Hi everyone. I have been looking for a change in career from IV nurse to dialysis nurse. I submitted resumes to both fresenius and davita but its been almost 1 year alnd no luck so far. Is it difficult to get into the dialysis field? Any ideas on what else I should be doing?

Oh gosh, sounds like you had a crazy nephrologist in the hospital!

I agree that people do question if the dialysis sent the patient downhill, but I never feel blamed for that. I mean frankly, it probably is the dialysis, it's a rough treatment. I answer whatever questions they ask me, but ultimately they page the nephrologist for further answers and orders. And I feel safe as long as I sick to my p and p.

There's good and bad with both. I don't mind the ridiculous hours of acutes for now but if I had kids, I think I would def want something more stable.

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That makes sense

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I think both acute and chronic has ups and downs.

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After the day I had today I wonder why anyone would actively seek this job. It is hard, freakin' WORK and anyone who suggests otherwise is suspect. It's physiology mixed with math, mixed with educated guessing, mixed with hospice, mixed with psych some days. You fall madly in love with patients who have one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel. You have a patient with a standing BP of 125/82 who passes out on the way to the scale, you have a cutie who drops their pressures and barfs all over you, then you have a SNF nurse who calls you because Mr. Jones pooped himself on his way back in the ambulance. Then the elderly psych patient who's in dialysis because their meds wrecked their kidneys accuse (very loudly) the staff of planned genocide. Then you sit in miserable traffic on the way home smiling because your beloved pain in the a** patient told you that you were their favorite person in the world. Jeepers.

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FransBevy, maybe it's because I'm a new grad that I'm confused, but why on earth would a LTC nurse call dialysis if a pt pooped his/her pants en route to her facility? To complain?

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God knows... Maybe he wanted me to drive over to clean it up? :)

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Specializes in Dialysis.

do you know anyone who can throw your name out to someone in a position to hire people?

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