Pros
My coworkers were great and very knowledgeable and I enjoyed most of our patients. It was a paycheck until I could find something else
Cons
Unsafe patient ratios, profits over patients. They train everyone on how to be a tech. I was new to dialysis nursing and when I asked when I was going to receive training specific to being a dialysis RN, I got told that I went to nursing school to learn how to be a nurse. I got 3 months of tech training and then was on my own on the floor with 2-3 shifts per day of 12 pts per shift and more often than not, just had to figure things out on my own and hoped that nothing disasterous happened. My manager was pretty much non existent due to vacations followed by a long term medical leave. When they were there, the gas lighting, guilt tripping, and blatant favoritism was out of control. Long hours, crazy early start times or ridiculously late nights with no in between. Physically and mentally taxing. Just like a med/surg floor minus Sundays and graveyard shift. Corporate also made a lot of changes to incentives at the beginning of the year and failed to relay this to general staff. They also tripled the medical premiums to increase their profits. This was quite possibly one of the worst experiences of my nursing career.