Description:
Responsibilities
What You Can Expect:
- Actively participate in infection control, risk management and patient education activities
- Guide new patients through 120-day education plan
- Obtain and record patient vital signs and machine readings during treatment
- Role under RN supervision
- Set up and break down dialysis blood system for treatment
- Insert and remove patient access needles
- Monitor patients during dialysis, document changes and inform charge nurse of any concerns
- Calculate patient’s weight loss to reach dry weight
- Determine patient care priorities and organize work load accordingly
- Maintain professional working relationship, observing patient privacy and rights
- Maintain and track inventory
- Perform laboratory work
Qualifications
Successful Candidates Bring:
- Excellent communication skills
- Desire to collaborate with care teams
- Ability to problem solve
Education/Training
- High school diploma or GED required
- Previous healthcare experience preferred, but not required
- CNA, EMT, medical assistant, CNT and/or phlebotomy skills desired
- DCI provides a 3-month comprehensive education program, including classroom group sessions and one-on-one skills training
- Dialysis experience not required, job shadow opportunities available