Registered Nurse - Dialysis

Hemodialysis/Apheresis Registered Nurse

3x12s, nights, 6:30p-7a rotating weekends float required - can be floated between three Cone Health campuses. Call required on Sunday nights only.

Patient population includes those with end stage renal disease, acute kidney injury, metabolic imbalances, dialysis access problems, or drug overdoses requiring hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis treatments.

Patients are acutely ill with a variety of medical-surgical or critical care diagnoses.

Apheresis patient population includes patients with various neurologic, renal, or hematologic/oncologic diseases.

Hemodialysis Department provides hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and apheresis treatments seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Department consists of nine bays and one isolation room for known Hep B patients and is equipped for telemetry monitoring.

Nurses' station contains a central cardiac monitoring station and a patient call system.

Nursing care is provided 24 hours, seven days a week by registered nurses who are supported by an ancillary staff of certified hemodialysis technicians and a nursing secretary.

Cardiac monitoring is provided by hemodialysis nurses for patients on telemetry or those requiring surveillance during treatments.

The average length of stay is four to five hours in the department for hemodialysis/apheresis.

For hemodynamically unstable patients in the ICU, treatments are performed in the patient's room with the hemodialysis nurse at the patient's bedside during the procedure.

Peritoneal dialysis is performed in the patient's room.