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About The Position

Requirements

• Current appropriate state licensure and ability to meet practice requirements in all states where employed.
• Current CPR BLS certification or successful completion of certification.
• At least 2 years of nephrology nursing experience as an RN within the last 2 years.
• Must have dialysis experience, as stated in the posting.
• Complete required FKC education and modality-specific training to be eligible for designated Nurse in Charge oversight.
• Six months of experience in acute dialysis as an RN to be eligible for designated Nurse in Charge oversight.
• Ability to meet the role’s physical demands, including frequent prolonged standing, bending, heavy lifting, moving patients, and assisting with ambulation; assistance may be available.
• Ability to travel to training or meeting sites and between assigned facilities.
• Participation in an on-call rotation and work at night, on weekends, or on holidays as required by program needs.
• Complete the Ishihara Color Blindness test as a condition of employment; failure does not preclude employment, and reasonable accommodation may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Acute dialysis experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data before, during, and after treatment; document findings, adjust treatment plans as indicated, and notify the Supervisor, physician, primary nurse, and others as appropriate.
• Assess and document patients’ and families’ learning needs and provide initial and ongoing education.
• Recognize changes or abnormalities in patient status and report or collaborate with appropriate health team members.
• Direct and provide safe, effective care and modality-specific treatment procedures for assigned patients.
• Assess daily patient care needs and coordinate with direct and ancillary care staff.
• Coordinate communication with FKC and non-FKC dialysis providers and contracted facility personnel to support continuity of care.
• Implement, administer, monitor, and document responses to prescribed intradialytic transfusions, including notifying the physician and blood supplier about adverse reactions.
• 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 incumbent employees.
• Provide specialized nursing care instructions to hospital or facility staff when requested and contractually stipulated.
• Assist at an outpatient facility as needed and serve as a Preceptor to new employees when assigned.
• Complete CAP requirements to maintain or advance.
• Perform other duties assigned by the Supervisor.