Dialysis Technician

Trinity Health•Silver Spring, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Dialysis Technician will work under the supervision of the RN to provide care to Dialysis patients. Holy Cross Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system that serves more than 240,000 individuals each year from Maryland's two largest counties — Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Holy Cross Health earns numerous national awards, clinical designations and accreditations across a wide range of specialties for providing innovative, high-quality health care services. Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. Together, we’re 121,000 colleagues and nearly 36,500 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 27 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, our system includes 101 hospitals, 126 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 136 urgent care locations, and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, in fiscal year 2023, we invested $1.5 billion in our communities through charity care and other community benefit programs.

Requirements

Certification as a nursing assistant by the Maryland State Board of Nursing, as a CNA-DT
Completion of CCHT or BONENT national certification required.
High school diploma or equivalent.
BLS from American Heart Association
Basic computer skills, to include data entry and retrieval.
Ability to coordinate eyes and hands quickly and accurately.
Ability to identify and distinguish color, temperature, texture, and size
Ability to lift up to 35 pounds, as determined by the nature of the patient care unit.
Must be able to push, pull, lift patients and equipment (e.g. beds, stretchers).
Must be able to bend body downward at the waist and be able to kneel.

Nice To Haves

One-year experience as a dialysis technician preferable.

Responsibilities

Completes pre, intradialytic, and post dialysis assessment of patient’s condition and documents.
Identifies and prioritizes assignment patients’ nursing care needs/ problems
Initiates, monitors, and terminates dialysis treatments according to unit policies, procedures, and protocols.
Draws periodic lab work per procedure and/or protocols
Monitors intake and output (pre-dialysis weight, intradialytic weight gain, and target weight), evidence of pain, and pulse oximetry measurements and reports all to RN
Prepares water treatment system and hemodialysis machine for patient shift in accordance with physician’s orders.
Monitors dialysis machine readings and parameters, dialyzer throughout the dialytic process. Make appropriate adjustments.
Works closely with RN's to provide care to Labor & Delivery patient
Responsible for cardiovascular status by maintaining thermoregulation of patient.