Dialysis Job Description
Dialysis Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective dialysis job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included dialysis job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Dialysis Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Dialysis
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, FMCNA, CMS, BONENT, IV, CHT, CCHT, BLS, BC, VA
Education for Dialysis
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the dialysis job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Nursing, Science, Healthcare, Patient Care, Directing, Reading, School of Nursing, Education, Graduate, Associates
Skills for Dialysis
Desired skills for dialysis include:
Desired experience for dialysis includes:
Dialysis Examples
Dialysis Job Description
- Obtains blood samples by performing venipuncture as delegated by an RN
- Collects patient vital statistics
- Adjusts blood flow and ultrafiltration rates according to the physician treatment plan
- Advocates for and allocates available resources to promote efficient, effective, safe and compassionate patient care based on current standards of practice for dialysis services
- Facilitates collaborative problem solving among interdepartmental disciplines
- Assists in the development of policies and procedures to ensure dialysis regulatory compliance system-wide for either Outpatient or Acute Dialysis groups
- Effectively implements professional and organizational best practices to ensure the delivery of quality patient care
- Monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes in service excellence goals
- Ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually
- Ensures competent and sufficient number of staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, and managing staffing to a changing census
- Dialysis Technician Certification is strongly preferred
- One (1) or more years of dialysis experience is preferred, not required
- Minimum of 1 year of hemodialysis experience required
- Previous hospital or medical training (LPN, EMT, medical assistant, nursing assistant, ) required
- PCA, PCT, or Dialysis Technician experience is preferred
- Minimum of 12 months experience in clinical nursing is required
Dialysis Job Description
- Assists with the supervision and training of Dialysis Technologists
- Responsible for the team's development, progress and improvement
- Provides close working support to the technical team
- Maintains and monitors all technical Q/A and Q/C audits, technical documentation and reporting, adequate inventory of supplies and equipment parts
- Cleans and disinfects of equipment, reusable jugs, and systems
- Participates in clinical research projects as needed
- The Dialysis Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care to patients of the Hospital and under the license of the Hospital in need of renal replacement therapy
- Documents patient's physical assessment, vital signs, patients treatment reviews and observations in patient medical records
- Analyzes patient assessments, dialysis orders, laboratory results and, discusses issues with the nephrologist
- Provides initiation and discontinuation of the prescribed renal replacement therapy, including but not limited to formulating a plan per physician orders, verifying safety measures are in place and complied with, administering medications or other appropriate treatments, and documenting all activity appropriately on the hemodialysis flow sheet or hospital EMR
- Minimum of 1 year of LPN experience required in a critical care background preferred
- Minimum of 1 year of LPN experience required
- Current dialysis certification
- Two-years experience in acute care (preferred)
- Will cover area hospital located in Riverside, CA
- Cast Management experience is highly preferred not required
Dialysis Job Description
- Two or more years of experience as a registered nurse
- At least one year of acute or chronic dialysis experience
- Responsible for attending community education events as scheduled to assist and or staff
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to any age-specific needs of the patients on his/her assigned unit
- Participates in the pre, intra, and post-dialysis data collection of the patient's condition
- Obtains and records objective data such as height, weight, vital signs, food and fluid intake and output under the direction of the Registered Nurse
- Completes the routine quality control checks on emergency equipment as assigned
- Supervises and/or provides all nursing care provided to an assigned population
- Accountable for patient/family education
- Documents nursing care and patient status in accordance with the nursing standards of care
- Minimum of one year's experience in a hospital or critical care setting preferred
- Will cover two Hospitals
- Case Management experience is highly preferred not required
- Master's Degree in Business Administration or Master of Healthcare Administration from an accredited institution
- Experience working in an integrated healthcare system
- Experience in designing and conducting research, analyzing data
Dialysis Job Description
- Make the most of your nursing skills to provide the highest level of care to patients and ensure their safety, comfort and well being
- Begins procedure and monitors the dialysis site during the treatment
- Sets up dialysis treatment equipment per orders
- Inspects and evaluates dialysis access sites and reports conditions to the RN as appropriate
- Obtains blood samples and culture specimens as directed
- Cannulates fistula or graft per established protocols
- Delivers dialysis treatment utilizing approved procedures
- Calculates fluid removal based on documented nursing assessment and/or MD orders
- Monitors patient’s vital signs during treatment and records observations and interventions in EMR
- Reports patient status changes to RN as appropriate
- One (1) year of outpatient dialysis experience is strongly preferred
- Minimum of 1 year of Hemodialysis experienced required
- Will cover Hospital(s) located in St Louis, MO area
- Ability to work full time between 36 - 40 hrs **
- Must be able Monday –Friday 8am -5pm timeframe
- 1 year full time hemodialysis nursing experience within the last 2 years
Dialysis Job Description
- May work with sharps and syringes
- Completes unit based clinical competency education requirements
- The Dialysis Registered Nurse / RN provides professional nursing care to patients of the Hospital and under the license of the Hospital in need of renal replacement therapy
- This position reports directly to the Dialysis Program Manager or Dialysis Supervisor for the respective facility
- Documents, evaluates and implements dialysis orders
- Two or more years of experience as a Registered Nurse / RN
- Minimum 1 year dialysis experience in an acute care or chronic setting preferred
- Patient Care & Evaluation.Conduct a thorough assessment of each patient’s medical status upon admission and throughout the patient’s course of treatment
- Treatment Administration.Assist in the implementation of the patient’s treatment plan under the direction of the Registered Nurse (RN)
- Documentation.Complete required documentation in an accurate and timely manner
- Minimum of 1 years of RN experience required
- Six months of experience in a hospital and/or nursing facility preferred
- Other experience will be considered, EMT/Paramedic, military medic, nursing student
- Central Supply course recommended
- Previous surgery experience desirable
- Previous experience in patient support area preferred