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Friendly environment to work in.
Licensure & Certification Administrator (Former Employee), Brentwood, TN –
Pros: great location and people
Cons: sometimes overwhelming; with 80 facilities.
My day would begin with checking emails to see if anyone needed documentation or information related to their facility. I was responsible for 80 dialysis facilities scattered across 8 different states.

While working at DaVita I learned just how important it is to be organized and able to be versatile in every way.

My manager at DaVita was one of the – more...  sweetest people I have ever worked for..... she was a great person and manager.

The hardest part of the job for me was working on conference calls (which could be very time consuming). The time spent doing this portion of my job took out a large junk of my day and would leave me with little time to perform other needed requirements for the day.

The most enjoyable part of the job for me was having a variety of responsibilites each day. I love having several different things to take care each day. My perfect job is lots of work to be done; with several different tasks required each day. – less
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A good learning experience
Re-use Technician (Former Employee), Pontiac, MI –
Pros: able to leave on break, fair work pace
Cons: racism, no real team work
Lots of chemicals, tests, mixtures and blood. I walk in, pick up the artificial dialyzers, take them to the processing room and clean them manually then electronically. I learned the proper way to mix bicarb, perform water system checks and of course process dialyzers. Management was fair. My Co-workers did not get along with each other and were racist. – more...  Hardest part of the job was being careful dealing with AIDs patients and patients with hepatitus. Most enjoyable part of the job was paperwork. – less
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good, stable company but churn nd burn for sales and management
Business Development Specialist (Former Employee), Fort Lauderdale, FL –
Pros: great travel benefits
Cons: too much travel and too many expected sales calls
high expectations unrealistic heavy turnover in upper management
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Shawna – May 21, 2012

Davita is a giant organization, trying to be the leader for dialysis treatments in the United States of America. The stock holders have no clue about what is happening in the clinics. The upper management above the clinical personnel have no clue about the business. Management is personnel that only thinks about budget and has no medical backround. If clinical production questions management (Salem, Oregon area) they are targeted and dismissed. Davita only wants inexperienced personnel so they can pay less. Its all about the profit and expansion of the company, not the patients or the staff. They provide very poor training and the employee will be the cause for a problem if it occurs. Falsification of trainings are evident.

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Family Oriented
Patient Care Technician (Former Employee), Queens, NY –
10 Hour work schedule, 4 days a week, learned communication at the workplace is key, the management was great, co workers were like family, there not really a hard part of the job if you have team work, most enjoyable that i was helping other live life and also enjoy life at the same time.
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Friendly staff , long hours
Vascular Access Manager, Patient Care Techician (Current Employee), Brighton Michigan –
Pros: great place to learn
Cons: long hours sometime no lunch
Davita has a good concept of teamwork ,nice place to advance in management .
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fast pace enviroment
Intern (Former Employee), St. Louis, MO –
Pros: its hands on facility
Cons: long hours
Basically I was just learning how to do everything.I put care packs together,set up the machines.
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Busy-the hardest thing was learning the water system.
Patient Care technician (Former Employee), San Antonio, TX –
Busy, learned abut Re-use in dialysis.
learned that re-use was a very very important part of dialysis.
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Take care, it all looks good at first...
Management (Former Employee), Woodbridge, VA –
Cons: poor management, training
The values they claim to have make it sound like dream jobs. But few truly live them. The management is poor and many managers have been promoted over their heads and to the limit of their capabilities. As much as they espouse their "outstanding" training, the reality is that it is horrible, tedious and has little to do with what you actually do daily.

Days – more...  are long. But typical for nursing, in some ways. – less
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Productive and a fun place to work at.
Acute Service Scheduler (Former Employee), Santa Ana, CA –
Pros: positive and caring environment.
Cons: confliction work schedule with child care.
Making sure every patient was schedule for proper and timely dialysis treatment was my daily work goal!
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Davita
Social Worker (Former Employee), Escondido, CA –
Pros: ablity to manage your own hours and work schedule.
Cons: the pto inadequate for a professtional position.
Some days are crisis management all day and some days are a slow steady pace to catch up.
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Fun place to work at
Dialysis Technician (Current Employee), Inglewood, CA –
Pros: they let us have fun to make the patients happy
Cons: insurance cost is too high, raise is only 2%
I start by preparing the supplies for the day to help the day go smooth. then we let the patients come in and its 2 of us taking care of 13 patients connecting them to the machines. To me the hardest part of my job is cannulating the patients I don't like to see them suffer I wish there was another way of doing dialysis, besides putting those 14 and – more...  15 gage needles in there arms or legs.I try play the radio I let them hear the oldies but goodies or listen to 94.7 the wave and it relaxes them , I just try to help them get there mind off of what they are there for, at least for a while. – less
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can be a fun day or bad day depending on how everything works out
Patient Care Technician (Current Employee), Saint Paul, MN –
Pros: meeting new people with different health issues
Cons: over work and under pay
depending on which hours you get to come in that day it could be a good/bad day and how things are done in the morning. in the morning goes as plan without and problems the the rest of the day would be fine. otherwise it can be the other way around, then you'll be there longer. mainly the days ends of working 3 or 4 days of 12-14hrs on your feet all – more...  day, with 3 30mins break time in between. thats the only time you are really off your feet and when you go home at the end of the day at least no later the 8:30pm-9pm. besids that, you'll have to deal with some nice/rude patients on treatment untill they/you are done for the day. – less
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I enjoyed the staff and the patients
Patient Care Technician (Former Employee), Washington, DC –
Pros: interacting with the patients
Cons: the down time in between each patient....
Had to be to work @ 5:30 didnt get off until 4:30/5:00 pm. The staaff was very enjoyable and welcoming. I learned alot while on my externship with Davita.
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A very patient focused company!
Patient CareTech (Current Employee), Atlanta, GA –
Pros: getting to know different types of people, from all walks of life.
Cons: the long hours.
Start my workday before the crack of dawn, teammates talk and interact setting up for patients. As the day goes on we try to make the best of the patients day by doing games and making them feel comfortable during their treatment.
I have great co-workers, that provide team work throughout the day.
The hardest part of the day, is you never feel like – more...  you are appreciated enough, for the work you do.
The most enjoyable part of the day, is knowing that you have help the patient extend their life span, by completing their treatments and giving them excellent patient care! – less
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RitaD – May 4, 2012

Does DaVita Train or do you have to take a tech course befor they will hire you? I'd really love to do Dalysis but don't know how to get started! I'm already into the medical field in different venuses but really would like to follow this course if they train!

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Productive and educational working with dialysis patients.
Radiology Technologist (Current Employee), Richmond, VA –
Having only worked at the Virginia Surgical Vascular Center a few times now as a PRN rad tech; my experience with them has been top notch. Both caring and professional, the team at VSVC are great to work with. The clinic supervisor is very open and easy to talk to, giving a relaxed and engaging way of dealing with patients and staff members. Each time – more...  I go in I learn something new about dialysis patients and surgical procedures. At this time I am only operating the C-arm during their cases but I hope to eventually learn to scrub-in and assist the doctor. – less
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good pay
Charge RN (Former Employee), Freeport, IL –
Pros: real team work
Cons: too early in the am
FA stood behind you
co-workers easy to get along with
hardest part-early morning hours
enjoyable-the patients
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great place to work
Patient Care Technician (Current Employee), cincinnati, oh –
great place to work, great bosses, and expanding very quickly
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Absolutely love what I do
Peritoneal Dialysis Nurse (Current Employee), Lumberton, NJ –
Pros: flexibility
Cons: traveling to other units
Love the educational aspect of PD and room for growth in the company. The hardest part of my job is having to be available to patients 24/7. The most enjoyable part of my job is having such a close relationship with patients and care givers.
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No desire to improve
Facility Administrator/Clinical Coordinator (Current Employee), DFW –
Pros: tuition reimbursement
Cons: long hours. contantly short staffed
It seems like a great company on the surface, but it is all about politics and popularity. The hourly associates run the clinic and Regional management caters to every whim. Managers never get help to fill the patient need, so we are constantly barely in compliance. CCs are constantly overworked as Charge RNs on the floor. They are more concerned about – more...  being popular than making good business decisions. Wasteful spending and too much time spent with ridiculous HR things. – less
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great for a student
Position Dialysis Technician (Current Employee), Tucson, AZ –
Typical day starts around four am and ends around four pm, I have learned that I can do things that I wasn't sure I could do before. My coworkers are great. The hardest part of my job is getting through turn over. The most enjoyable part is getting to know my patients.
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About DaVita

DaVita Inc. is a provider of dialysis services in the United States for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, also known – Read more