Interview with Fresenius next week...

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I have been an RN for almost 3 years now. Prior to that I had been an LPN for 2 years. I have experience in LTC and ED. Just for the record, I did not enjoy ED at ALL!!! I loved the fast pace, because it made the time go by fast. However, I felt that it was not a safe enviornment for my license so I had to get out.

I am back in LTC and I recieved a call yesterday from Fresenius Dialysis clinic. I have been trying to get into dialysis nursing for about a year now and have had no luck. The recruiter was the one who called me and stated that the particular clinic manager has had trouble filling the spot for the RN position so she was looking at past applicants and found my application. I took their pre-employment assessment and scored an 81% which the recruiter said was a great score. I have an interview next week.

I feel comfortable in who I am as a nurse and my skills. I am excited at the possibility of learning new skills!

I am not going to ask how Fresenius is as a company, because I know it definitely depends on the manager and people so that answer can be biased depending on who you ask.

I am going to ask this: How was your first experience as a dialysis nurse?

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

How was that first year? TOUGH. Dialysis is fast-paced and will keep you busy. If you have good time management skills, you will do fine. If not, you will need to brush up on them. Once you got the rhythm down, it's not bad. It can even get very tedious as you do mostly the same thing day after day. But when pts have complications, it's tough. You will have to be very decisive and quick to address them and be able to supervise technicians under you, as well. Any area of nursing is tough the first year or so, dialysis being no different. I wish you the best.

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Thank you! I hope I get the job! I love fast-paced and I love routine with some excitement mixed in every now and then :)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

Another aspect of it that you will have to adapt to is that the government has really been increasing their regulation of dialysis clinics, meaning that there is a lot of paperwork and other side duties that must be completed by the RN along with the running the patients' treatments. You will be responsible for overseeing approximately twenty treatments a day but still be expected to get long, detailed, government regulated care plans, foot checks on all of your diabetic patients, and medication list updates on all of your patients done each month, along with monitoring and documenting their monthly labs and rounding with doctors when they come in. Some days you will go in to work planning on getting X, Y, and Z done and then end up getting none of it done. It's just the nature of the beast. Changing your routine on a dime and being able to roll with getting everything done by the end of the month when it seems like there aren't enough hours in the day is just something that you will have to learn to deal with.

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Update: I was offered the job and I took it! I start in July. Happy to know they have such extensive training before youre on your own.

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Hi there! I will have a phone interview next week with Fresenius . Would you mind giving me some idea about the questions they are going to ask me? also what is the next step after phone interview? Hoping for your reply. Thank you!

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Hi there! The phone interview basically consisted of the recruiter asking why I wanted to get into dialysis and what experience in health care I had. They have your work experience too so they didn't ask extensively on that. If they decide to take it further, it will be followed by a lengthy assessment, which includes math (algebra based) and word meanings. It also has a personality assessment too. It took a while. Depending on the assessment and the phone interview with the recruiter they will forward it to the hiring manager who will call you for an interview (the recruiter was our mmiddle man with communication for my situation)

Hope that helps! :)

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The assessment is done on the computer just an FYI

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