Dialysis RN

Responsible for the delivery of safe, effective nursing care provided for a primarily adult/geriatric end stage renal disease patient population. The RN will utilize nursing processes to assess individual patient needs, determine and implement a plan of care, evaluate and revise plan according to changing patient care needs. Initiates and provides on-going patient and family education and includes patient/family in care planning, and documenting care provided. The RN also coordinates the efforts of members of the interdisciplinary team to ensure continuity of care for each patient.

Schedule:

• M/W/F 36-40 hours
• 4:30AM-5:00PM or 6:00AM-6:30PM
• Subject to change but never will NOT have weekends or over nights

Day to Day:

• Responsible for all aspects of direct patient care, including, but not limited to new patient admissions; patient transfers and discharges; nursing assessments (both initial and pre/post each treatment); initiation, monitoring and terminating dialysis.
• Rounds on all assigned patients to ensure their needs are met; and to ensure that staff is delivering physician prescriptions to all patients.
• Routinely rounds with physicians to ensure coordination of care.
• Uses rounding opportunities to mentor dialysis technicians in all aspects of clinical management of the dialysis patient.
• Ensures plan of care is developed for all assigned patients to ensure they achieve the desired clinical outcomes.
• Reviews the data collected by the dialysis technicians and assesses each assigned patient pre and post dialysis and ensures the patient is provided a treatment appropriate to meet their individualized care plan.
• Completes the medical record documentation and ensures it is complete and reflects changes in patients’ condition and discrepancies between what is ordered and what is delivered.
• Schedules/Participates in Integrated Plan of Care meetings and documents appropriately.
• Participates in the vascular access monitoring program to prevent access failure; documents identified problems, notifies physician, and develops a corrective action plan.
• Directly or indirectly reviews monthly the patient’s medication list (Home and In Center medication).