RN - Dialysis

Job Summary

To provide education to patients and staff. To consult with physicians and nursing staff on a 24 hour basis regarding care of patients on dialysis. To perform job duties in accordance with the medical center's purpose. This job profile may require call subject to the department's discretion.

Employees must be able to discern color differences for water testing. Knowledge of hemodialysis and CRRT. Verbal and written communications skills. Interpersonal skills.

• Assess patients for dialysis needs.
• Provide safe and effective dialysis to patients.
• Interpret lab values for critical levels and maintain ability to operate hemodialysis machines, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and slow low efficient dialysis (SLED).
• Precept new employees.
• Attend federally required inter‑disciplinary care committee (IDCC) meetings.
• Monitor patients for adult dialysis.
• Monitor CRRT, hemodialysis and all peritoneal dialysis.
• Audit equipment and coordinate dialysis tech II and LPN II. Perform as charge nurse as needed.
• Consult with physicians and nursing staff on a 24 hour basis.
• Serve on at least one nursing council, hospital, or medical center committee, task force, or project team to improve patient care or work area. Demonstrate core standards of exceptional customer service.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all‑inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Requires constant exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environments such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, frequent handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations. Requires frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to off‑site locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, occasional climbing, frequent crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, constant pushing/pulling, constant reaching, occasional sitting, constant standing, occasional twisting, and constant walking.

Must be licensed as RN for one (1) year. Two (2) years of RN experience in specified area preferred. BSN preferred.

Valid RN license