Acute Dialysis Registered Nurse (RN)

About the position

Children's is one of the nation's leading children's hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. We're committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children's. The shift start time is 7:30am to 5:30pm. The position is PRN and you would work 4 shifts per month. 2 shifts would be Monday-Friday, and the other 2 shifts would be a whole weekend (Saturday and Sunday). While you are on orientation for 3 months, your orientation shifts would be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

Responsibilities

• Performs nursing duties, providing direct patient care in a safe and effective manner that promotes quality patient outcomes.
• Performs acute hemodialysis procedures in accordance with established policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Performs Hemodialysis priming, emergency management, and bedside clinical care under the direction of the nephrologist.
• Participates in scheduling patient procedures.
• Integrates values and language preferences into healthcare delivery through a culturally sensitive process.
• Utilizes clinical decision support tools and resources to recognize issues, prioritize care, and modify plan of care as needed.
• Utilizes appropriate documentation tools to record, measure, and retrieve healthcare data.
• Provides patient and family education appropriate for identified learning needs.
• Utilizes resources to plan and provide nursing care that is safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Participates in lifelong learning to maintain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice.
• Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competence and learning.
• Self-evaluates professional practice in relation to performance, development, resiliency, and goals.
• Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance review, resulting in change in practice and role performance.
• Consults, contributes to, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
• Ensures quality customer service and effective communication with all customers and coworkers.
• Engages in ethical practices utilizing principles from The Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Maintains therapeutic and professional relationships with appropriate role boundaries.
• Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• Demonstrates investment in others through teaching/coaching/helper roles.
• Assists in maintaining equipment and supply inventory.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into clinical judgement and nursing practice.
• Participates in monitoring activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety.
• Identifies and communicates hazards and errors.
• Participates in quality and process improvement activities to improve patient outcome and workflows.
• Completes orientation and Initial Assessment of Competency successfully by determined due date.
• Completes mandatory education and annual competency assessment requirements as defined by unit and system by due date.
• 75% attendance at staff meetings, if applicable.

Requirements

• BSN with two years' clinical experience (3,000 hrs) or ADN with three years' experience (4,500 hrs).
• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact.
• BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
• Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) or Pediatric Early Assessment Recognition (PEARS) certification within 1 year of hire date.

Nice-to-haves

• BSN Preferred.
• Preferred Certified Dialysis Nurse (CDN) through Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission (NNCC) upon hire.
• If not CDN certified upon hire; strongly preferred to achieve certification upon meeting eligibility requirements.
• If unable to meet CDN eligibility requirements; preferred to achieve Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) certification upon meeting eligibility requirements through PNCB.
• Previous dialysis or apheresis experience strongly preferred.
• Previous experience in a neonatal, cardiac, critical care and/or pediatric care setting strongly preferred.