Outpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Staff Registered NurseFunctions as part of the hemodialysis health care team to ensure provision of quality patient care on a daily basis in accordance with FMS policies, procedures, and training. Supports the FMCNA's mission, vision, values, and customer service philosophy. Supports the FMCNA commitment to the Quality Enhancement Program (QEP) and CQI Activities, including those related to patient satisfaction and actively participates in process improvement activities that enhance the likelihood that patients will achieve the FMCNA Quality Enhancement Goals (QEP). Adheres to all requirements of the FMCNA Compliance Program, and FMS patient care and administrative policies.Principal duties and responsibilities include: directing patient care, assessing daily patient care needs, monitoring patient care staff, participating in staff training and orientation, ensuring educational needs of patients and family are met, providing safe and effective delivery of care to patients, accurately implementing treatment prescriptions, assessing patients' response to hemodialysis treatment therapy, identifying and communicating patient related issues, initiating initial and annual nursing assessment, actively participating in the pre-evaluation, initiation, monitoring, termination, and post evaluation of patients receiving hemodialysis treatment therapy, taking appropriate intervention for changes in patient adequacy status, providing, supervising, and monitoring hemodialysis access care, implementing, administering, monitoring, and documenting patient's response to prescribed interdialytic transfusions, ensuring accurate and complete documentation, reviewing, transcribing, and entering physician lab orders, ensuring appropriate preparation of lab requisitions, ensuring correct labs tubes are utilized, identifying and ensuring appropriate follow-through regarding missed labs, ensuring all specimens are appropriately packaged, ensuring all labs are directed and delivered to appropriate labs, reporting alert/panic and abnormal labs results, ensuring lab results are forwarded to physicians, enforcing all company approved policies and procedures, maintaining overall shift operation, acting as a resource for other staff members, routinely meeting with the Clinical Manager, collaborating and communicating with physicians, providing assistance to patients regarding prescription refills, ensuring all physician orders are transcribed and entered, overseeing all documentation of patient information, maintaining facility drug list, maintaining competency with all emergency operational procedures, ensuring verification and availability of adequate emergency equipment, ensuring provision of appropriate vaccinations, administering medications, maintaining appropriate recording of controlled substances, assisting with the coordination of patient transportation, ensuring a clean, safe, and sanitary environment, ensuring competency in the operation of all dialysis-related equipment, ensuring all patient stations are clean and free of blood, ensuring all blood spills are immediately addressed, ensuring all relevant data is documented appropriately, ensuring all appropriate patient related treatment data is entered, ensuring all FMCNA policies regarding patient admission, transfer, and discharge are implemented, ensuring accuracy of Patient Care Technician documentation, reviewing and ensuring appropriate daily completion of Hemodialysis Treatment Sheets, ensuring all appropriate procedures are followed regarding opening and closing procedures, initiating, documenting, and completing ongoing Continuous Quality Improvement activities, completing monthly nurses' progress note, ensuring patient medical records are complete, reviewing transplant status, completing patient care plans, completing any long-term programs, completing initial and annual Nursing History and Assessment physical, ensuring completion of Annual Standing Order Review, performing additional duties as assigned.Physical demands and working conditions include: direct patient care that involves heavy lifting and moving of patients, assisting with ambulation, frequent, prolonged periods of standing, bending over, moving machines and equipment with assistance, exposure to infectious and contagious diseases, taking the Ishihara's Color Blindness test as a condition of employment.Supervision: NoneEducation and required credentials: Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing, current appropriate state licensure, must meet the practice requirements in the state in which he or she is employed.Experience and skills: Minimum of one-year medical-surgical nursing experience preferred, hemodialysis experience preferred, ICU experience preferred, successfully complete a training course in the theory and practice of hemodialysis, successfully complete CPR Certification, meet the necessary requirements of Ishihara's Color Blindness test as a condition of employment, provide coverage at any or all area facilities as required by management, ICD-9 coding training, Nurses Technical Training, must meet appropriate state requirements.The rate of pay for this position will depend on the successful candidate's work location and qualifications, including relevant education, work experience, skills, and competencies. Hourly Rate: $34.50 - $59.00 Benefit Overview: This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, parental leave.EO/AA Employer: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender IdentityFresenius Medical Care North America maintains a drug-free workplace in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.