Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Upgrade your nursing career in outpatient settings with Fresenius Medical Care’s Outpatient Registered Nurse – RN position. An entry‑level designation in our Clinical Advancement Program (CAP) offers extensive on‑the‑job training and the opportunity to advance from novice to expert in nephrology nursing.

Location:

6810 Green Bay Rd, Ste 1, Kenosha, WI 53142. Clinic hours: MWF 5 am–8:30 pm; TTS 5 am–4 pm. Every other Saturday required;
Sundays off. No on‑call. 10–12 hour shifts.

• Perform all essential functions under supervision, as directed by the Supervisor and the Clinical Educator or Preceptor.
• Collect, analyze, and document patient data pre‑, during, and post‑hemodialysis treatment; adjust treatment plans as indicated; notify Team Leader, Charge Nurse, Supervisor, or Physician as needed.
• Assess, collaborate, and document patient/family basic learning needs; provide initial and ongoing education.
• Direct and provide, in collaboration with direct and ancillary staff, safe and effective delivery of hemodialysis therapy.
• Administer medications as prescribed or in accordance with approved algorithm(s); document justification and effectiveness.
• Initiate or assist with emergency response measures.
• Serve as a resource for the health care team; participate in staff training and orient new staff as assigned.
• Ensure correct laboratory collection, processing, and shipping procedures; reschedule missed or insufficient collections.
• Identify expected outcomes; update nursing assessment and plan of care through collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Ensure patient awareness of transplant and treatment modality options.
• Complete CAP requirements to advance.
• Perform all other duties assigned by Supervisor.

• Provide direct patient care that involves heavy lifting, patient movement, and ambulation support; equipment aids may assist.
• Require frequent, prolonged standing; must bend over.
• May occasionally move machines and equipment up to 200 lbs.; lift solutions up to 30 lbs. as high as 5 ft.
• Work environment: health care facility with air temperature control and moderate noise.
• Potential exposure to infectious and contagious materials.
• Daily work: desk work, computer work, patient interaction, facility/hospital staff and physicians.
• May require travel to training sites or other facilities.
• May be asked to perform essential functions in other locations with the same demands and conditions.

• Supervise Patient Care Technicians, LPNs, LVNs, and RNs as Team Leader or designated Nurse in Charge after completing all FKC education and training requirements.
• Minimum 9 months RN experience; minimum 3 months chronic/acute hemodialysis RN experience.

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current appropriate state licensure.
• Current or successful completion of CPR BLS Certification.
• Meet state practice requirements where employed.

• Entry level for RNs with less than 2 years of nephrology nursing experience.
• Chronic/acute hemodialysis experience preferred.

Fresenius Medical Care maintains a drug‑free workplace in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.

EOE, disability/veterans.