DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
CUSTOMER SERVICE
1. Ensures the provision of outstanding customer service to all external and internal customers including patients and staff;
2. Develops and maintains positive relationships through effective and timely communication with all customers;
3. Addresses patient-related issues in a timely manner;
4. Assess daily patient care needs and develops appropriate patient care assignments;
5. Assists the Unit Head or Team Leader in attending to the unique needs of patients, in ways that make them develop a feeling of importance and belongingness;
6. Assists in recording data in the NephroWeb to ensure that all pertinent clinical and patient information are kept updated
CLINICAL CARE
1. Responsible for accurate implementation of treatment prescription including Sodium (Na) modeling prescription, and Ultrafiltration modeling (where appropriate)
to ensure stable treatment therapy;
2. Assesses patient’s responses to their treatment therapy, and makes appropriate adjustments and modifications to the treatment plan as indicated
by the prescribing physician;
3. Identifies and communicates patient-related issues and concerns to the Unit Head or Team Leader;
4. Initiates initial and annual nursing assessments and maintains an ongoing evaluation and documentation of patient care needs;
5. Actively participates in the pre-evaluation, initiation, termination, access homeostasis, and post evaluation of patients receiving dialysis treatment therapy;
6. Takes appropriate intervention for changes in patient adequacy status and troubleshooting access flow issues as identified;
7. Implements, administers, monitors, and documents patient’s response to prescribed interdialytic transfusions, including timely notification of
adverse reactions to the physician and/or appropriate blood suppliers;
8. Collaborates with stakeholders on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) presentations;
9. Reviews printed request of lab orders to ensure accuracy of lab requisitions transacted in the SAP system;
10. Ensures correct labs tubes are utilized for prescribed lab specimens and that lab draw and processing procedures are performed appropriately for all lab samples;
11. Identifies and ensures appropriate follow-through of missed labs and insufficient specimens according to company policies and procedures;
12. Ensures all specimens are appropriately packaged according to policies and procedures relating to shipment of blood or body fluid specimens
and potentially hazardous material;
13. Ensures timely delivery of lab results to concerned personnel and reports abnormal lab results to Unit Head or Team Leader
TECHNICAL
1. Ensures all relevant data including physician’s orders, lab results, vital signs, treatment parameters and patient treatment data are documented
and stored appropriately;
2. Reviews and ensures appropriate daily completion of Hemodialysis Treatment Sheets; ensures patient medical records are complete with
appropriate information, documentation and identification;
3. Initiates, documents, and completes ongoing CQI activities including monthly reports;
4. Reviews transplant status and follows corresponding established procedures;
5. Assists in establishing patient care plans for new patients and generating various reports related to patients and treatments;
6. Reports malfunctioning equipment or apparatus to Unit Head or Team Leader to ensure that all items required for dialysis treatment are in good working
condition prior to actual treatment;
7. Assists in taking inventory of consumable and non-consumable items during assigned shift and prepares required reports as needed;
8. Ensures provision of appropriate vaccinations, immunizations, and annual Tuberculosis (TB) testing;
9. Administers medications as prescribed or in accordance with approved algorithm(s) and documents appropriate medical justification if indicated
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree, and must have a VALID Professional License (Passed Board/Bar/Professional License Exam), Nursing.
No work experience required.