Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collects and analyzes patient data pre-, during-, and post-hemodialysis treatment, documents in the patient medical record, adjusts or modifies treatment plan as needed, and notifies Team Leader, Charge Nurse, Supervisor or Physician as necessary.
• 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 for the health care team, participates in staff training and orientation of new staff as assigned.
• 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.
• Completes CAP requirements to advance.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• The position provides direct patient care that regularly involves heavy lifting, moving of patients, and assisting with ambulation.
• Frequent, prolonged periods of standing.
• Moves, with assistance, machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs., and lifts chemical and water solutions of up to 30 lbs. as high as 5 feet.
• 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, interaction with patients, facility/hospital staff, and physicians.
• May be asked to provide essential functions of this position in other locations with the same physical demands and working conditions as described above.

Supervision

• Assigned oversight of Patient Care Technicians/LPNs/LVNs/RNs as a Team Leader or designated Nurse in Charge.
• Must meet the practice requirements in the state in which he or she is employed.

Education and Licensure

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current appropriate state licensure.
• Current or successful completion of CPR BLS Certification.

Experience and Required Skills

• Entry level for RNs with less than 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Chronic/acute hemodialysis experience (preferred).