Dialysis Nurse

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The Dialysis Nurse supports Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) mission, vision, and core values. This role provides and directs patient care for patients experiencing acute or chronic kidney failure in accordance with applicable scope and standards of practice and policies, values, and mission of the organization. The Dialysis Nurse manages and oversees patients during acute and chronic dialysis treatments to maintain a safe environment, optimize outcomes, and maximize available resources. Additionally, the Dialysis Nurse actively participating in quality improvement initiatives and serves as a subject matter expert in specialty areas.

Department Name: Renal Dialysis
Job Status: Full-time
Shift: Four days per week, consistent day off. Rotating weekend call expectations.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Experience: Three years of nursing experience including two years dialysis, CRRT or Apheresis nursing experience

Equivalency: None

Certification(s): BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire.

Licensure(s): Registered Nurse (RN) license

***This position may require a BLS certification from the American Heart Association. Click on the following link and enter your zip code to find an appropriate class near you. Please note BLS (CPR cards) from organizations other than American Heart Association, even if it says it is AHA approved, will not be accepted.***

http://ahainstructornetwork.americanheart.org/AHAECC/classConnector.jsp?pid=ahaecc.classconnector.home

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

Neonate - <30 days

Infancy - >30 days to 1yr

Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs

Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs

School age - >5yrs to 13yrs

Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs

Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Responsible for the oversight and delivery of direct patient care aligning with established policies, procedures, and state and federal regulations.
2. Direct patient care includes all dialysis modalities: hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), Acute HD and PD. Demonstrates knowledge of Transplant along with other therapies as needed.
3. Participates in new hire training and orientation activities.
4. Implements prescribed treatments including Sodium (Na) modeling and Ultrafiltration modeling (when appropriate), ensuring stable treatment therapy.
5. Assesses patient response to treatment, communicates changes to Nephrology Providers and takes appropriate intervention; actively participates in the pre-evaluation, initiation, monitoring, termination, access care, and post evaluation of patients receiving treatment according to established procedure.
6. Assesses patient and family readiness and ability to perform dialysis including patient's home environment if necessary. Directs patients in the preventative maintenance of home therapies equipment, including water systems and analyses as appropriate.
7. Develops and maintains collaborative professional relationships with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to provide culturally competent, age-appropriate patient/family care; collaborates with patients, families, providers, and the multidisciplinary team to facilitate family meetings, establish mutually developed plans of care, and foster shared decision-making; assesses patients' and families' Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) at home or in other community locations, and collaborates with social work and family navigators as needed.
8. Evaluate and adjust care as needed; accountable for responding to and resolving barriers with providers, patients, family members, and hospital personnel in a timely manner.
9. Oversees and maintains the patient records including both hardcopies and electronic, for accuracy.
10. Provides education and coaching to patients and families to improve health literacy and work towards self-management of their health; ensures education needs of patients and families are being met.
11. Facilitates coordination of patient access to appropriate medical and specialty providers, medication acquisition and management, procedures/tests, appointments, and referrals.
12. On Call responsibilities for the Acute Dialysis setting, nights and weekends as scheduled
13. Participates in collecting and reporting quality-of-care outcomes and unit performance measures. Participates in quality and safety improvement initiatives and processes.
14. Participates in the development and revision of policies and procedures and serves on department and organization-wide committees as directed.
15. Acts as a subject matter expert in at least two specialty areas, including but not limited to: catheter placement and dysfunction, infection control practices and complication, emergency management, nutrition and mineral metabolism, anemia management, patient and family education and training, medications, PD prescriptions and use of cycles, care management and transitions of care, water treatment, and/or hemodialysis set-up and run.

Guidelines: Developmental, standard, or intermediate level. Guidelines are generally numerous, well established, and directly applicable to the work assignment. Work assignment and desired results are explained by general oral or written instructions.

Complexity: Falls between the entry and full performance/senior level. Duties assigned are repetitive and restricted in scope but may be of substantial intricacy. Employees primarily apply standardized practices.

Decision Making: Decisions or recommendations on non-standardized situations are limited to relating organizational policies to specific cases. Brings non routine issues to supervisor. Problems not covered by guidelines or without precedent are taken up with the supervisor.

Communications: Contacts with team members, clients, or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, gathered, or presented and some degree of discretion and judgment are required within the job function's parameters.

Supervision Received: Under normal supervision, within a standardized work situation, the employee performs duties common to the line of work without close supervision or detailed instruction. Work product is subject to continual review.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.