Home Therapies Dialysis nurse question

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Can anyone tell me about home therapies for dialysis? My "take" is its peritoneal dialysis in home..I have an opportunity to interview for this type of position. I have no dialysis experience except some PD experience in the hospital setting. It seems the reviews on dialysis here are either really positive or really negative. I need a FT job - this is a M-F 8-4 with some flexibility on time getting started/stopping. I have no idea what the salary is..it's one of "the" well known dialysis companies and in the south. Advice? Comments?

I did get the job however I resigned a month into it. What I was told in the interview turned out to be far different once I got started...the pay was $27.50/hr plus benefits. I had no dialysis experience. This was not Davita though.

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Hi Lucky724,

Wow....so sorry to hear that. Did you like it though? What was is it like being a dialysis nurse and did they really train you?

Thank you so much for replying, I’m now rethinking my options.

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I think I would've liked it since it's fairly technical in nature and the training would've been thorough but a Home therapies Nurse and a Dialysis Nurse are not really the same..the dialysis portion is clinic (acute or chronic), using the dialysis machines. Home therapies is PD and you go into the patients homes to educate them on how to do their own peritoneal dialysis. I don't think home therapies would be stressful like the clinic positions seem to be, I also don't think it was going to be as active/busy as the clinic dialysis. The hours were pretty much 8-5 and there would be a call rotation for the home therapy patients but there were less than 15 of them so that wouldn't have been a big deal either. If you apply for any position in dialysis ask them if you will be required to travel for any or all of your training or any other time for education/training after being hired and will you ever be pulled to other clinics to work. I left this position because of these issues and turned down another position at another dialysis facility because of the out of town training requirements. I wouldn't have minded a day or two here or there but 12 weeks or more, literally having to leave the state at times then for the home therapy being told it was not the clinic where I lived I would work but also 2 others that were 1 1/2 and 2 hrs one way from my town. Some nurses don't mind but I am not a nurse whose job is going to be my life..I was disappointed but I now understand why so many nurses don't get into dialysis or leave - it's definitely a you love it or hate it deal.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Home therapies is more than just PD: its more and more frequently, home hemodialysis. When NextStage developed the system that does not require re-plumbing, more and more pts are moving to home hemodialysis.

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That may be where you are but where I was at the program was new and they were not doing anything other than home PD..I think eventually it will move into that area but the census for the area this clinic is in doesn't support more than the PD patients right now.

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Hi Lucky724,

Thank you so much for the information. It helps a lot.

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Yes, it is a winner, love it!

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There is of course PD Also Pd by cycled, home hemo and nocturnal hemo by Nextstage

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No extended(Nocturnal) treatments at DaVita.

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