Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Fresenius Medical Care • Jacksonville, FL

27d

About The Position

The Outpatient RN CAP 1 is an entry-level designation in Fresenius Kidney Care’s Clinical Advancement Program. The nurse is accountable for coordinating and providing clinically competent care—including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation—for an assigned group of patients. The role is part of the End Stage Kidney Disease health care team and contributes to patient-care decisions, teaching, leadership, quality improvement, and facility operations. Appropriate tasks may be delegated to direct patient-care staff, including RNs, LVN/LPNs, and Patient Care Technicians.

All responsibilities are performed in accordance with Fresenius Kidney Care policies, procedures, nursing practice standards, and applicable state and federal regulations. The nurse works under the direction of the Supervisor, with guidance from a Clinical Educator or Preceptor, or in collaboration with other Registered Nurses. The role includes direct patient care and may include oversight of other staff as a Team Leader or designated Nurse in Charge after specified training and experience requirements are met.

The position involves direct care in a health care facility, with regular heavy lifting, moving and assisting patients, and prolonged standing. The employee may occasionally move equipment with assistance and lift chemical or water solutions. The work also includes desk and computer work and interaction with patients, facility and hospital staff, and physicians. Travel to training sites or other facilities may be required, and the employee may be asked to perform the role at other locations.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current appropriate state licensure.
• Current CPR BLS certification or successful completion of CPR BLS certification.
• Meet the practice requirements in the state of employment.
• Less than 2 years of nephrology nursing experience as a Registered Nurse for this entry-level designation.
• For assigned oversight of Patient Care Technicians, LPNs/LVNs, or RNs as a Team Leader or designated Nurse in Charge: complete all FKC education and training requirements for new employees, have at least 9 months of RN experience, and have at least 3 months of chronic or acute hemodialysis experience as an RN.
• Ability to perform the position’s physical functions, including regular heavy lifting, moving patients and assisting with ambulation, prolonged standing, and bending; equipment or coworkers may provide assistance.
• May occasionally need to move, with assistance, machines and equipment weighing up to 200 pounds and lift chemical and water solutions weighing up to 30 pounds as high as 5 feet.

Nice To Haves

• Chronic or acute hemodialysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data before, during, and after hemodialysis treatment; document findings, make indicated adjustments to treatment plans, and notify the Team Leader, Charge Nurse, Supervisor, or Physician as needed.
• Assess and document patients’ and families’ basic learning needs and provide initial and ongoing education.
• Direct and provide, in collaboration with direct and ancillary patient-care staff, the daily safe and effective delivery of hemodialysis therapy to assigned patients.
• Administer prescribed medications or medications in accordance with approved algorithms, and document medical justification and effectiveness.
• Initiate or assist with emergency response measures.
• Serve as a resource for the health care team and participate in staff training and new-staff orientation as assigned.
• Ensure laboratory specimens are correctly collected, processed, and shipped; reschedule missed or insufficient collections.
• Identify expected outcomes and document and update nursing assessments and plans of care in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Ensure patients are aware of transplant and treatment-modality options.
• Complete Clinical Advancement Program requirements to advance.
• Perform other duties assigned by the Supervisor.
• Perform essential functions under the Supervisor’s direction and with guidance from a Clinical Educator or Preceptor, or in collaboration with other Registered Nurses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree