Acute Inpatient Registered Nurse - RN - Dialysis

Fresenius Medical Care•Newtown, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Inpatient Registered Nurse provides and coordinates clinically competent care for an assigned group of hospital patients receiving dialysis. The role includes assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care, documenting patient status and treatment responses, and adjusting treatment plans when indicated. The nurse works as part of the kidney disease health care team and contributes to decision-making, patient and family education, leadership, and quality improvement activities. The position is a full-time role supporting a hospital in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The schedule is three 12-hour shifts, with weekly on-call required. Work may include on-call rotation, nights, weekends, and holidays according to program needs. The nurse may also assist at an outpatient facility or provide care at other assigned locations as needed.

Requirements

Current appropriate state licensure and compliance with practice requirements in all states where employed.
Current CPR BLS certification or successful completion of the certification.
At least 2 years of nephrology nursing experience as an RN within the last 2 years.
Ability to complete required CAP requirements.
For designated Nurse-in-Charge oversight of Patient Care Technicians, LPNs/LVNs, or RNs: successful completion of FKC education and modality-specific training requirements and 6 months of acute dialysis experience as an RN.
Ability to perform direct patient care involving frequent, prolonged standing, bending, heavy lifting, moving patients, and assisting with ambulation.
Ability, with assistance, to move machines and equipment weighing up to 200 pounds and lift chemical and water solutions weighing up to 30 pounds as high as 5 feet.
Ability to travel to training or meeting sites and between assigned facilities.
Participation in on-call rotation and, as program needs require, night, weekend, or holiday work.
Completion of the Ishihara Color Blindness test as a condition of employment; failing the test does not preclude employment, and reasonable accommodation will be considered.

Nice To Haves

Acute dialysis experience.

Responsibilities

Collect, analyze, and document patient data before, during, and after treatment; adjust treatment plans as indicated and notify appropriate personnel.
Assess patient and family learning needs and provide initial and ongoing education.
Recognize changes or abnormalities in patient status and collaborate with appropriate health team members.
Direct and provide safe, effective, modality-specific patient care and treatment procedures.
Assess daily patient care needs and collaborate with direct and ancillary care staff.
Coordinate communication with dialysis providers and contracted facility personnel to support continuity of care.
Implement, administer, monitor, and document patients’ responses to prescribed intradialytic transfusions, and notify the physician and blood supplier of adverse reactions as appropriate.
Administer prescribed medications and document medical justification and effectiveness.
Initiate and assist with emergency response measures.
Serve as a resource, leader, coach, mentor, and role model for new and current employees.
Provide specialized nursing care instructions to hospital or facility staff when contractually required.
Assist at an outpatient facility as needed and potentially serve as a preceptor for new employees.
Complete CAP requirements to maintain or advance within the program.
Perform other duties assigned by the Supervisor.