Dialysis Registered Nurse - RN

About This Role

This Dialysis Registered Nurse (RN) position involves providing and coordinating clinically competent care to assigned patients, including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. The role participates in decision-making, teaching, leadership functions, and quality improvement activities to enhance patient care outcomes and facility operations within the End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing, systematic collection and analysis of patient data pre – during – post hemodialysis treatment for assigned patients and document in the patient medical record
• Make adjustments or modifications to treatment plan as indicated and notify Team Leader, Charge Nurse, Supervisor or Physician as needed
• Assess, collaborate, and document patient/family’s basic learning needs to provide initial and ongoing education to patients and family
• Direct and provide, in collaboration with direct and ancillary patient care staff, all aspects of the daily provision of safe and effective delivery of hemodialysis therapy to assigned patients
• Administer medications as prescribed or in accordance with approved algorithm(s), and document appropriate medical justification and effectiveness
• Initiate or assist with emergency response measures
• Serve as a resource, leader, coach, mentor and role model for new and incumbent employees
• Ensure correct laboratory collection, processing and shipping procedures are performed and reschedule missed or insufficient laboratory collections
• Identify expected outcomes, document, and update the nursing assessment and plan of care for assigned patients through collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team
• Ensure patient awareness related to transplant and treatment modality options

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Current appropriate state licensure
• Current or successful completion of CPR BLS Certification
• Meet the practice requirements in the state in which employed
• Minimum of 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Minimum of 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience

Benefits