LPN - Park Ridge Dialysis

Job Title: LPN Staff I

Department: Dialysis

Location: Park Ridge

Hours Per Week: Variable

Schedule: Per Diem

As a Licensed Practical Nurse in Hemodialysis, your specialized skill set and ability to collaborate with the Registered Nurse is vital to exceptional patient care.

• Conducts and documents a thorough assessment of each patient’s medical status upon admission and throughout the patient’s course of treatment.
• Assists in the implementation of the patient’s treatment plan under the direction of the RN.
• Complies with the evaluation, treatment, and documentation guidelines of the department.
• Acts in compliance with hospital, regulatory, and professional standards and policies.
• Maintains clinical currency by pursuing continuing education opportunities.
• Administers IVP medications specific to dialysis patient population.
• Initiate and discontinue dialysis treatments using multiple access sites including AV fistulas, AV grafts and Central Venous Catheters (CVC).
• Clean and redress CVC skin sites.
• Draw Blood from CVC.
• Respond to CVC line separations.

• Graduate from an accredited School of Practical Nursing OR ASN/BSN in Nursing.
• Current New York State Licensed Practical Nurse license.
• Completion of the NYS Department of Health and NYS DOE approved training curriculum for LPN’s working in Outpatient Hemodialysis Units (completed as part of unit based orientation).
• Completion of the NYS DOH and NYS DOE approved annual competency for LPN’s accessing central lines in a hemodialysis unit (completed as part of unit based orientation).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification required.

• One year experience preferred.

M
- Medium Work
- Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects;
Requires frequent walking, standing or squatting.

• BLS
  - Basic Life Support
  - American Heart Association (AHA)
• LPN
  - Licensed Practical Nurse
  - New York State Education Department (NYSED)

$27.80 - $33.92