I am quitting...after almost 7 years.

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Yep... 7 years in December... but my administrator is pushing for unsafe practices and I refuse to be any part of it.

I am going to go into nursing education... teaching classes and on-line classes, clinicals, etc.

I will miss my patients sooo much! :scrying:

Specializes in ICU, Pediatric, Psychiatric, Med/Surg.

True...but for some, travel isn't an option.

(i look forward to trying that myself, actually)

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True...but for some, travel isn't an option.

(i look forward to trying that myself, actually)

Why not?????????????

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Specializes in ICU, Pediatric, Psychiatric, Med/Surg.

personal choice maybe?

or in my case, school.

At any rate, I do hope it all works out for nosonew in the first post.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Nurse Educator..

goodluck!!!

;)

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Specializes in Corrections, neurology, dialysis.
My manager does not allow us to visit at all if we are not employed there anymore. I wish she would.

I don't know if that's good or not.

I work in a clinic where every so often an ex employee shows up "just to say hi" and I find it very distracting.....especially when they have a child or two in tow. We even have an employee who was fired who still comes around. If I was fired I wouldn't dare show my face there. I would be too embarrassed.

Anyway, nothing personal hon. I just feel it's best if those visits don't happen. I'm still kind of new to this a really need to focus so I don't hurt anyone. I don't like it when ex employees or current employees who aren't working that day show up at the clinic to "hang out."

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Specializes in ICU, Pediatric, Psychiatric, Med/Surg.

I agree. I don't return to places where I have been employed and visit. Those people are not a captive audience waiting to see me...they are earning a living. The supervisor is just being a time manager.

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Fresnius buying RCG is really worrying me. Everyone knows Fresenius sucks.

To them, all nurses and pts are dispensable. They only care about money and power.

They squeeze everything to the hilt trying to get every last penny out of everything. They don't realize that they have created their own personal dialysis nurse shortage.

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sometimes we stay too long at a job and do not realize how bad things have become until we leave.

walk away and find some place that you will enjoy going to work..and learn new things that might lead you into an even more ideal situation

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Specializes in med-surg, dialysis.

I have been in hemo for almost 6 years and sometimes I just want to send my nursing license back to the state BON and get out all together. But I love my patients (most of them) and that is what has kept me here this long. I worked for Fresenius first, then Davita, and am now returning to Fresenius as a clinic manager. They are really all the same, except my experience is that the Fresenius clinics don't have the RN's working the floor as much, but the required charting and workload is still impossible. If this position doesn't work out, I will probably leave dialysis entirely and go into something else. I have been checking out legal nurse consulting and am really considering that avenue.

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Regarding Divita,

I watched today one patient who always sits in her chair until she stops bleeding, however, due to more patients, she was asked to sit in a w/c until the bleeding stopped to give her chair to another pt.

This is a common practice at Divita.

Divita, cares about one thing. MONEY.

You have to asked yourself, why the non license tech's if it is such a speciality? ( I know the answer, and it comes right back to.... MONEY...)

Divita, will not back you up in court, when it comes to giving out medications you didn't draw up. We all know, if you didn't draw it up you don't give it. Yet if your employed at Divita, the charge nurse draws up the medication and expects you to give it to the patients. Epogen is just one of many examples that is given on a daily basis.

Each section has four patients, and each pct is busy when it comes to starting and taking off the patients.. its almost a race to watch some of them. I watch as pct put patients on and didn't even glove, Walk into the isolation room and not even wash their hands. Forget about infection control.

One day I found a note on the floor, It said something to the effect of having a bomb. I took that note to the charge nurse. And she informed me that the facility manager knew about it and decided to ignore it.

It wasn't uncommon for the one nurse for over 10 patients and one pct at night. This is very unsafe practice.

We all know half of those patients, in clinics wouldn't be able to disconnect themselfs in a emergency. Some of them don't even have the strength it takes to clamp the tube's. If its only you and a one pct, god help all of you if a emergency should happen like a fire.

In my opinion, Divita, is a law suit waiting to happen.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Hemodialysis.

I quit my last dialysis center because of unsafe but legal practices. For instance, the techs rushing "put on". Everyone in a hurry to take a break. :banghead:

Re-use dializers and rushed work is a bad combo. :down:

I will never work with re-use again! :eek: I knew the word "Clear" meant trouble my first day in the unit.:cool:

I love :redbeathe my disposable Optiflux.

DG:typing

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