Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

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The professional registered nurse (Outpatient RN CAP 2) may be an entry‑level designation into the Clinical Advancement Program (CAP) for new employees who meet the RN CAP 2 criteria or may be attained through advancement from RN CAP 1. This position is accountable and responsible for the provision and coordination of clinically competent care, including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation for an assigned group of patients.

It may include delegation of appropriate tasks to direct patient care staff such as RNs, LVN/LPNs, and Patient Care Technicians. As a member of the End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) health‑care team, the RN participates in decision‑making, teaching, leadership functions, and quality‑improvement activities that enhance patient care outcomes and facility operations.

• FLOAT Position
• Dialysis Experience Required

• Performs all essential functions under the direction of the Supervisor and with guidance from the Clinical Educator, Preceptor, or in collaboration with other Registered Nurses.
• Performs ongoing, systematic collection and analysis of patient data pre‑, during, and post‑hemodialysis treatment for assigned patients and documents in the patient medical record; makes adjustments or modifications to the treatment plan as indicated and notifies the Team Leader, Charge Nurse, Supervisor, or Physician as needed.
• Assesses, collaborates, and documents patient/family’s basic learning needs to provide initial and ongoing education to patients and family.
• Directs and provides, in collaboration with direct and ancillary patient‑care staff, all aspects of the daily provision of safe and effective delivery of hemodialysis therapy to assigned patients.
• Administers medications as prescribed or in accordance with approved algorithm(s), and documents appropriate medical justification and effectiveness.
• Initiates or assists with emergency response measures.
• Serves as a resource, leader, coach, mentor, and role model for new and incumbent employees by setting examples of appropriate behavior, work habits, and attitudes toward patients, co‑workers, supervisors, and the company at the facility and area level.
• Ensures correct laboratory collection, processing, and shipping procedures are performed and reschedules missed or insufficient laboratory collections.
• Identifies expected outcomes, documents, and updates the nursing assessment and plan of care for assigned patients through collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Ensures patient awareness related to transplant and treatment modality options.
• Participates in education and quality‑improvement projects at the facility and area level as directed by Supervisor.
• May serve as a Preceptor to new employees.
• Required to complete CAP requirements to maintain or advance.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

• The position provides direct patient care that regularly involves heavy lifting, moving of patients, and assisting with ambulation. Equipment aids and/or coworkers may provide assistance.
• This position requires frequent, prolonged periods of standing and the employee must be able to bend over.
• The employee may occasionally be required to move, with assistance, machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs, and may lift chemical and water solutions of up to 30 lbs as high as 5 ft.
• The work environment is characteristic of a health‑care facility with air temperature control and moderate noise levels.
• May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases/materials.
• Day‑to‑day work includes desk work, computer work, and interaction with patients, facility/hospital staff, and physicians.
• The position may require travel to training sites or other facilities.
• May be asked to provide essential functions of this position in other locations with the same physical demands and working conditions as described above.

• Assigned oversight of Patient Care Technicians//LVN/LPNs/RNs as a Team Leader or designated Nurse in Charge, after…