Pediatric Nurse II- Dialysis

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Children’s Wisconsin has a part‑time opening for a Pediatric Nurse within our Dialysis Unit Care Management team.

0.7 FTE. M, T, W, F but with every other Monday off. The hours will vary to open with a start time of 0500, mid shift of 0630, or closing shift of 0800/0830.

• Dialysis Staff:
  • 6 Dialysis Nurses – provide outpatient dialysis services, inpatient and ICU services, and provide 24/7 on‑call support to home families and inpatient nursing staff who may be caring for a patient on dialysis. Responsible for training and supporting home dialysis patients, including staffing a weekly home dialysis clinic.
  • 1 Dialysis Technician – integral part of the outpatient dialysis unit operations. Dialysis techs set up machines, initiate and discontinue patient treatments and keep the outpatient dialysis unit stocked with supplies to assure the best care is given to our patients.
  • 5 Nephrologists – provide inpatient and outpatient coverage to patients that are on or needing dialysis services.
  • Multidisciplinary Ancillary Staff:
    Social work, Nutrition, Psychology, Child Life, Transplant Coordinators and more provide ongoing support, education and other regulatory requirements to our patients and their families.
• Dialysis Unit:
  • One Patient Training room
  • Water treatment room is double the size as it used to be, with state‑of‑the‑art Reverse Osmosis System to provide Ultra Pure water for patient treatments
  • 6 patient treatment stations (4 chairs in an open bay area and 2 private rooms)
  • Outpatient Hemodialysis on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, sometimes Saturdays
  • Patient treatments average 3 to 4 hours each
    • First shift starts at 0600
    • Treatment days end around 1700
  • On Tuesdays, nurses work in the Peritoneal Dialysis Clinic, where patients who perform their dialysis at home, come to see a multidisciplinary team.
  • On Thursdays, nurses work to care plan HD patients and work on assigned projects and duties.
  • All other days are covered by nursing to perform dialysis services as needed.

• Part of the Dialysis Unit care management team – coordinate and manage patient care to pediatric patients and families within a continuum of care.
• Delegate patient care activities as appropriate within a care management assignment.
• Function within professional and hospital standards.
• Perform essential nursing functions and direct care responsibilities of a Dialysis Pediatric Nurse.
• Share in the on‑call rotation with other dialysis nursing staff.
• Apply the nursing process: obtain assessment data using principles of growth and development; communicate in a manner appropriate for child and family; identify and act upon overt and covert cues of physical, psychosocial and cognitive parameters for an individual; make independent nursing decisions and integrate medical plan of care.
• Understand and satisfy the needs of patients from neonatal to adult in regard to growth and development process.
• Collaborate with physicians and others to implement care management plans; delegate patient care activities; assess progress toward established outcomes; record variances; communicate when outcomes are not met.
• Participate in regulatory preparedness for CMS regulations and maintain a state of readiness for…