Pediatric Nurse II- Dialysis

Pediatric Nurse

Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.

Children's Wisconsin has a part-time opening for Pediatric Nurse within our Dialysis Unit Care team.

Work Schedule:

Mon, Tues, Wednesday, Friday from 8-430, 0.8 FTE. On call rotation starting about 6 months post job start, every 7 weeks.

On-Call Rotation:

• Occurs every 7 weeks
• On-call coverage is for after-hours for the entire week
• During their on-call week, the employee works 8:00 AM–4:30 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday to remain available for last-minute updates

Here are some facts about the Dialysis Department

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 – are an 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 – Provided 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

What you will do:

Performs as a partner in the Dialysis Unit care management team. Provides coordination and management of patient care to pediatric patients and families within a continuum of care. Delegates patient care activities as appropriate within a care management assignment. Functions within professional and hospital standards.

• Performs essential nursing functions
• Assumes direct care responsibilities of a Dialysis Pediatric Nurse.
• Shares in the on-call rotation with other dialysis nursing staff.
• Nursing Process: applies principles of growth and development in obtaining assessment data; communicates in manner most appropriate for child and family; identifies and acts upon overt and covert cues of physical, psychosocial and cognitive parameters for an individual; makes independent nursing decisions and integrates medical plan of care.
• Understands and satisfies the needs of the neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school-age, adolescent and/or adult patient in regard to their growth and development process.
• Care Management: collaborates with physicians and others to implement care management plans; delegates patient care activities within a care management assignment;…