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Trust that it will get even more stressfull when you're on your own. When you have to take resposibility for checking labs and calling the MD for bath changes at the same time you have 8 put-on's that need assessments etc etc etc. But once you find your groove you'll be fine. Whoever said that Dialysis nurse was easy has never worked as a dialysis nurse.

You may need to consult with the medical director and just make your bath's more streamline. Like all our 2k baths are 2.5ca point blank. I think if the medical director is made aware that this will lessen the likelyhood of a medication/prescription error he/she may be more willing to streamline thier orders.

Congrats on the interview! I hope it went well. Here's the thing...LPN's have different roles depending on the state in which you work. For example an LPN/LVN in california can not access CVC's. So to work as a nurse with davita only holding your LPN and not being able to access cvc's is useless to davita...in california. Majority of the LPN/LVN's that work for Davita in California are PCT's and stay PCT's in the dialysis world. Now other states have different rules. As for your interview they know that you don't have any experience so majority of the time it's an interview to see what kind of person you are. Will you mesh well with the clinic's environment. Not every clinic is the same so you may mesh well in one clinic but not in another. The dynamics can be drasitically different. In general you want to do some research on the company on their website. Don't ever just mention the mission statement...and that's for any company. They just know now that you went to the website. You want to mention you know that Davita is a large company with clinics throughout the country and you believe you'll be able to grow with the company no matter where ever that may be. For example you may decided to relocate some day and you know that Davita will probably have a clinic near where ever you decide to go. No company wants to put money into training someone that they can't utilize for many years. Hopefully some of these tips can help you out.