Travel Dialysis Technician - $1,240 per week

Travel Dialysis Technician position in Espanola, New Mexico. Start date: 11/23/2026. Duration: 13 weeks, 40 hours per week, 8‑hour day shifts. New Mexico license required. 12 months of recent dialysis experience required.

About the role

TalentBurst Health & Life Sciences is seeking a travel Dialysis Technician for a 13‑week assignment in Espanola, NM. The role involves direct patient care, dialysis treatment administration, equipment management, and participation in quality improvement and infection control programs. The position requires travel between assigned facilities and may involve regional meetings.

Patient Education

• Assist healthcare team in providing patient‑specific education on adequacy measures: Online Clearance Monitoring (OLC), Adequacy Monitoring Program (AMP), Urea Kinetic Modeling (UKM), and disease process/access.

Treatment Duties

• Welcome patients, assess wellbeing since last treatment.
• Evaluate vascular access for patency, perform cannulation, administer heparin as delegated or allowed by state law.
• Obtain pre‑ and post‑treatment vital signs, weight, and vascular access evaluation.
• Initiate dialysis per prescribed orders (blood flow QB, dialysate flow QD).
• Monitor patient response, evaluate intradialytic problems, intervene per physician order.
• Obtain vital signs prior to reinfusion; discontinue treatment per established procedures; evaluate patient before venous access termination (standing & sitting BP).
• Achieve hemostasis, apply dressings, evaluate patient prior to discharge.
• Perform and record pre‑/post‑dialysis evaluation, weight, vital signs with initial identification.
• Calculate and enter machine programming: ultrafiltration goal, treatment time, UF modeling.
• Ensure safety alarms enabled (e.g., Narrow Venous Limits 160).
• Record vital signs and treatment parameters on Hemodialysis Treatment Sheet with initials.
• Document patient treatment accurately (treatment sheet, progress notes).
• Report significant changes to RN or supervisor.
• Observe patients, conduct machine safety checks per facility policy.
• Document interventions for unusual patient status and patient response.
• Evaluate vascular access during treatment (arterial/venous pressures), intervene, document, report.
• Obtain prescribed lab tests, prepare specimens.
• Clean blood spills immediately with appropriate disinfectant.
• Prepare, organize, and efficiently use supplies/equipment to prevent waste.
• Monitor patients performing self‑care under RN supervision.

Staff Support

• Assist in training direct patient care staff on applicable programs under nurse supervision.

Education & Communication

• Follow organizational policies, procedures, and ethical business practices.
• Maintain environmental safety and cleanliness.
• Clean/disinfect dialysis machine surfaces, chairs, equipment, and surrounding areas between treatments.
• Perform all pretreatment tasks and required machine alarm testing (Pressure Holding Test).
• Initiate Solution Delivery System (SDS).

Record Keeping

• Document participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities.
• Enter treatment data into clinical application accurately and timely.
• Review treatment sheets for completeness, ensure nursing signatures, correct omissions.
• Prepare initial patient admission charts and compile paperwork.
• Prepare/print lab requisitions for prescribed or stat specimens.
• Collect, label, prepare, and store lab samples per laboratory specifications.
• Ensure lab specimen pickup by appropriate courier.

Infection Control

• Assist in collecting data for infection control audits.
• Support staff and patient adherence to infection control practices.
• Follow infection control policies and procedures.
• Participate in and reinforce infection control education for patients/families under Clinical Manager direction as allowed by state law.

Transitional Care Unit

• Follow newly admitted patients through first 4 weeks of dialysis, coordinating transitional care.
• Reinforce education and care matters for new patients as allowed by state law.
• Liaise with FKC staff to ensure all disciplines see patient per plan.
• Assist with patient understanding of home dialysis products, benefits, and feasibility.
• Set up and perform treatment on all machines used in the transitional care unit.
• Assist with patient understanding of treatment options, including peritoneal dialysis setup demonstration.
• Coordinate transition to patient’s modality choice.
• Assist with supply ordering and inventory for TCU.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Day‑to‑day work includes desk/computer work and interaction with patients, staff, physicians.
• Travel between assigned facilities and community locations; regional, Business Unit, and Corporate meetings may be required.
• Healthcare facility environment with temperature control and moderate noise.
• Potential exposure to infectious/contagious diseases/materials.
• Direct patient care involving heavy lifting/moving patients, assisting with ambulation (equipment aids/coworkers available).
• Frequent prolonged standing, bending.
• Occasional push/pull up to 15 lbs.
• Frequent lifting/lowering solutions up to 30 lbs., occasional up to 40 lbs. up to 5 feet