Registered Nurse - Dialysis

About the role

At Garnet Health, the Hudson Valley’s leading integrated health system, you’ll find the perfect balance of a satisfying career and a rewarding lifestyle. Our focus is on patient-centric care with a collective of visionary leaders and dedicated professionals working as a team to deliver the best for the people we serve. Join our 3 East MICU team at Garnet Health Medical Center Middletown.

Responsibilities

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations (ANA, 2010).

Garnet Health Medical Center clinical nurses are guided by:

• New York State Nurse Practice Act
• American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses
• Essential Guide to Nursing Practice
• Jean Watson’s Nursing Philosophy and Science of Caring
• Garnet Health Medical Center Plan for Nursing Quality and Safety
• Garnet Health Medical Center Nursing Strategic Plan (NSP)

Clinical nurses are empowered to work toward an improved healthcare system by providing safe, timely, effective, equitable, and patient-centered care (IOM).

Garnet Health Medical Center clinical nurses embrace the Essential Features of Professional Nursing as indicated by the ANA:

• Provision of a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing
• Attention to the range of human experiences and responses to health and illness within the physical and social environments
• Integration of assessment data with knowledge gained from an appreciation of the patient or the group
• Application of scientific knowledge to the processes of diagnosis and treatment through the use of judgment and critical thinking
• Advancement of professional nursing knowledge through scholarly inquiry
• Influence on social and public policy
• Assurance of safe, quality, and evidence-based practice

Qualifications

• Licensure: Active New York State Nursing License in good standing
• Education: Associate, Baccalaureate (preferred), Master’s, or Doctorate Degree in Nursing from an Accredited School of Nursing
• Certification: American Nurses Association endorsed Certifications or Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses Certification Preferred (*Based on Certification specialty hours of work requirement)

Physical Demands

• Considerable standing, walking, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching
• Considerable visual demands
• New Hires – Must be able to perform RN essential physical functioning demands as determined by Employee Health / Pre-Screening Assessment
• During any patient transferring task, if any caregiver is required to lift more than 35 lbs of a patient's weight, then the patient should be considered to be fully dependent and assistive devices should be used
• Ergonomic stressors include moderate to frequent heavy lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring of patients
• Must participate in Safe Patient Handling initiatives
• American with Disability Act Requirements: Must be able to perform the essential position responsibilities either aided or unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation

Mental Demands

• Ability to foster collaborative relationships, to work well under pressure, to organize and synthesize new information and prioritize tasks
• Possess critical thinking, analytical skills and flexibility
• Ability to multi-task
• Required detailed attention to work in an environment where interruptions cannot be controlled
• Demonstrates sensitivity to customer needs and expectations
• Work schedules may include irregular hours including nights and weekends

Working Conditions

• ORMC abides with the New York Department of Labor / Nursing Licensure Board recommendation on the 16 hours work limit
• OSHA Directive CPL-03-00-016
• Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances
• May be exposed to unpleasant patient elements (exposure to blood and other potentially infectious material)
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
• Handles emergency and crisis situations
• Must wear Personal Protective Equipment including gloves, safety glasses, respirators, coveralls, vests, lead vests, and full body suits
• May have contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards

Patient And Staff Safety

• Recognizes the importance of patient/staff safety precautions as it relates to specific department and area of responsibility
• Consistently utilizes precautions and follows appropriate procedure to enhance patient/staff safety in daily operations
• Identifies and reports any potentially dangerous situations which could cause medical error and/or patient or staff harm
• Immediately takes action, where appropriate, to minimize the risk of injury
• Reports errors, when these occur, to supervisor and in the MIDAS RDE system on an Incident report
• Participates when appropriate in Root Cause Analysis and/or other efforts to reduce the risk of medical error and/or patient or staff harm

Training

• Clinical nurses are accountable for completing their annual / required mandatory training within certain time frames
• All clinical nurses must have BLS and this training must be kept current
• In certain clinical areas additional AHA training may be required

Department Required Experience

• Preferred: 6 months Hemodialysis Experience
• Preferred: Acute Hemodialysis experience
• Recommended: CDN or CNN certification

Mandatory Training

• BLS on hire
• ACLS within 1 year