Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

About This Role

The Outpatient Registered Nurse (RN) is an entry-level position responsible for coordinating and providing clinically competent care for assigned hemodialysis patients. This role involves assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of patient care, contributing to decision-making, teaching, and quality improvement activities within the End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Perform all essential functions under the direction of the Supervisor and with guidance from the Clinical Educator, Preceptor or in collaboration with other Registered Nurses.
• 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.
• 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 for health care team, participate in staff training and orientation of new staff as assigned.
• 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 he or she is employed

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Entry level for RNs with less than 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience as a Registered Nurse.

Nice to Have

• Chronic/acute hemodialysis experience