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It varies by company and region as to how many nurses are there in the clinic. In my area with a certain large main provider 20 or less patients you have 1 RN, the other large provider has 2 RN's with 20. In general I think Acutes is less stressful ...

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Oh to the OP, in my Chronics clinic, I was the only RN for 17 patients, and often had to take a 4 patient assignment on top of that (as I said bad clinic). It is apple and oranges trying to compare Acutes and Chronics. Westiluv described it beautiful...

When I worked Chronics I had a bad clinic :-( , bad management, bad techs and so on, but I do long for the more stable hours. I hate the On Call, I hate not sleeping well those nights and afraid of missing a phone call. I will probably make my way ba...

I have an interview at a non for profit Continuous Care Retirement home on Monday for a RN in the Skilled Nursing area (they are affiliated with the Presbyterain Church). To make a very long story short, I have been in Acute Care since I became a RN...

Yeah, but to be a DON you most often have to have LTC experience. I can't lose my shirt to wait for that experience :-(

I have worked in Chronics and currently work in Acutes. In my opinion they are 2 completely different animals. In Acutes you are the Dialysis Nurse, you don't have people around to help you with Dialysis. You are it. I found my years of PCU/ICU/Cath ...

I was really bummed. There is no way that I can take that kind of pay cut, I wouldn't be able to pay my bills. I expected a maybe a dollar less, but not $4. (My hospital doesn't pay a lot and I live in a city that regardless of what people think, has...

Interview went really well! However the pay is significantly lower than I was expecting. I live in a "low pay state" but what they offered me was new graduate RN pay. I know money isn't everything, and I really love gerontology, however I cannot quit...

I burned out quick at DaVita Chronics. I hated it, loved my patients...hated everything else. You are not alone. Management was a joke, and more and more expectations were piled on me. I had little or no help and my manager (also an RN) was a waste o...

I have been doing Dialysis now for 2 years, it is time for a change of scenery. It does not matter if it is for outpatient or acutes. I am ready to run screaming! I love my patients, but the "suits" aka process people are making it impossible to take...

Hello all first time posting in the specialty. I've been healthcare for a long time, it all started years ago as a firefighter paramedic. I've been RN for three years. I actually got my RN after working an assisted living facility as a Med Tech and ...

@OP, The best advice I can give you is to do your research. There are few unions here and no mandatory staffing ratios (hospitals set them). I have worked in a hospital on a PCU that I have taken 6 patients regularly (on days) moved to another hospi...

Base pay for an RN with no hospital experience in my neck of the woods is $20-23 an hour. A friend of mine works in Boca Raton and she started out at $24.

No Publix, and Walmart is only slightly cheaper. It is ridiculous. Best of luck on your move. I just wanted you to know so you aren't in shock with the pay difference, compared to the high cost of living.

Living in Florida is very different from visiting. I have been here for 13 years and cannot wait to leave. You will make considerably less money and although the cost of living is lower than NYC it is not as low as people think. Especially since the ...

It all depends on the unit. I worked Chronics and had a crap manager and crap techs. I was burnt out after 6 months, cried at work. It was horrible. I work for a hospital based acute dialysis unit now and I love it. I wouldn't go back to Davita.

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A good quality pair of running shoes

I bought Dansko's, I hated them. I started to have Plantar fasciitis like pain and my pinky toes were blistered all to hell. I switched back to tennis shoes and the problems disappeared. I think 12+ hours shifts hurt your feet regardless. I'd say sa...

I am about to make the switch form Chronics to Acutes. It will be a hospital based unit, not one of the big providers. I will be working with RN's (no PCT's), 3 12's a week and 1 night on call a week. I am looking forward to getting back into the acu...

I make more at DaVita, than I did at the hospital. $2 more an hour. Florida however is a low pay state for everything. It is really bad in Central Florida too. I have heard that it varies from state to state. All I can tell you is that I am making wh...

DaVita (in Florida) pays the same rate for training that they do for Nurses. For example: I was hired at a certain rate of pay. It was not less during the training process. It did not go up after training.

I work In Center Hemo ( Chronics). I am scheduled 4 10 hour shifts. I get really close to it. I rotate with another RN. We get at least 36. RN's are in for the long haul. Since there are only 6 days of Dialysis a week we (the RN's) will rotate the we...