Acute Inpatient Registered Nurse – RN

Acute Inpatient Registered Nurse – RN

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current appropriate state licensure.
• Current or successful completion of CPR BLS Certification.
• Minimum 9 months experience as a Registered Nurse.
• 6 months experience in acute dialysis as a RN.

Responsibilities

• Performs ongoing, systematic collection and analysis of patient data pre – during – post treatment for assigned patients and documents in the patient medical record.
• Assesses, collaborates and documents patient/family’s basic learning needs to provide initial and ongoing education to patients and family.
• Recognizes aspects and implications of patient status that vary from normal and reports to or collaborates with appropriate health team members for input.
• Directs and provides safe effective patient care for assigned patients as prescribed for all modality specific treatment procedures.
• Initiates and coordinates communication with FKC and Non-FKC dialysis providers and appropriate contracted facility personnel as needed to provide continuity of patient care.
• Performs the implementation, administration, monitoring, and documentation of patient’s response to prescribed intradialytic transfusions, including appropriate notification of adverse reactions to physician and appropriate blood supplier.
• Administers medications as prescribed and documents appropriate medical justification and effectiveness.
• Initiates and assists with emergency response measures.
• Serves as a resource for health care team, participates in staff training and orientation of new staff as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Entry level for RNs with less than 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience as an RN.
• 12 months experience as a Registered Nurse (preferred).
• 6 months acute dialysis experience (preferred).
• Hemodialysis and/or ICU experience (preferred).