Pediatric Nurse II- Dialysis

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Children's Wisconsin has a part-time opening for a Pediatric Nurse within our Dialysis Unit Care Management team.

Work Schedule: 0.7 FTE. M, T, W, F but with every other Monday off. The hours will vary to open with a start time of 0500, mid shift of 0630, or closing shift of 0800/0830

Here are some facts about the Dialysis Department

Dialysis Staff:

• 6 Dialysis Nurses – provide outpatient dialysis services, inpatient and ICU services, and provide 24/7 on-call support to home families and inpatient nursing staff who may be caring for a patient on dialysis.  Responsible for training and supporting home dialysis patients, including staffing a weekly home dialysis clinic. 

• 1 Dialysis Technician – are an integral part of the outpatient dialysis unit operations. Dialysis techs set up machines, initiate and discontinue patient treatments and keep the outpatient dialysis unit stocked with supplies to assure the best care is given to our patients.

• 5 Nephrologists – Provided inpatient and outpatient coverage to patients that are on or needing dialysis services.

• Multidisciplinary Ancillary Staff: Social work, Nutrition, Psychology, Child Life, Transplant Coordinators and more provide ongoing support, education and other regulatory requirements to our patients and their families.

Dialysis Unit:

• One Patient Training room

• Water treatment room is double the size as it used to be, with state of the art Reverse Osmosis System to provide Ultra Pure water for patient treatments

• 6 patient treatment stations (4 chairs in an open bay area and 2 private rooms)

• Outpatient Hemodialysis on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, sometimes Saturdays

• Patient treatments average 3 to 4 hours each

  • First shift starts at 0600

  • Treatment days end around 1700

• On Tuesdays, nurses work in the Peritoneal Dialysis Clinic, where patients who perform their dialysis at home, come to see a multidisciplinary team. On Thursdays, nurses work to care plan HD patients and work on assigned projects and duties.

• All other days are covered by nursing to perform dialysis services as needed

What you will do:

Performs as a partner in the Dialysis Unit care management team.  Provides coordination and management of patient care to pediatric patients and families within a continuum of care.  Delegates patient care activities as appropriate within a care management assignment.  Functions within professional and hospital standards.

• Performs essential nursing functions

• Assumes direct care responsibilities of a Dialysis Pediatric Nurse.

• Shares in the on-call rotation with other dialysis nursing staff.

• Nursing Process:  applies principles of growth and development in obtaining assessment data; communicates in manner most appropriate for child and family; identifies and acts upon overt and covert cues of physical, psychosocial and cognitive parameters for an individual; makes independent nursing decisions and integrates medical plan of care.

• Understands and satisfies the needs of the neonatal, infant, toddler, pre-school, school-age, adolescent and/or adult patient in regard to their growth and development process.

• Care Management:  collaborates with physicians and others to implement care management plans; delegates patient care activities within a care management assignment; assesses progress of patient toward established nursing outcomes; records variances; communicates with care team when outcomes are not met.

• Involved in regulatory preparedness for Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) regulations and continuous effort to maintain a state of readiness for ongoing compliance for unannounced surveys.

• Teaching:  understands/applies basic learning principles to both children and adults; is aware of available resources; familiar with content in teaching plans; executes teaching plan; utilizes available resources, both written and consultant; evaluates effectiveness of own teaching; is accountable for the completion of teaching.  Participates in Home Visits for patients that have or will train to perform home dialysis treatments to assess home environment and reassess need for re-training.

• Administers hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.

• Participates in Home Visits for any new peritoneal patients, or patients experiencing frequent infections or a recent move to location.  Home visits are performed with 2 nurses, at a minimum, when going into the community.  

• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.  Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.  Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

• Program Development:  may participate in needs assessment.

What you will need:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing in order to meet the recommended entry level for a professional nurse (or equivalent academic and/or professional experience).

• A license to practice professional nursing in the State of Wisconsin. Candidates must show proof of license on or before first day of employment.

• Current CPR certification - Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers through American Heart or American Red Cross is required.

• Dialysis experience in HD and PD preferred

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

Certifications/Licenses:

+ one of the following: - N/A, BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/National Safety Council, License RN-Registered Nurse (30) - State of Wisconsin, License RN-Registered Nurse (AZ Compact) - State of Arizona, License RN-Registered Nurse (ND Compact) - State of North Dakota, License RN-Registered Nurse (TN Compact) - State of Tennessee