Registered Nurse - RN
Fairfax, Virginia
You'll care for patients with end-stage renal disease on a hemodialysis team.
Posted Jul 13
- Unit and setting
- Dialysis · Outpatient
- License
- RN licenseCurrent appropriate state licensure.
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current appropriate state licensure.
- Certification
- CPR certification. Successfully complete CPR Certification.
- Education
- Graduate of an accredited nursing school. Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
- Also asks
- Meet the practice requirements of the state where you work. Must meet the practice requirements in the state in which he or she is employed.
- Also asks
- Complete a hemodialysis theory and practice training course. Successfully complete a training course in the theory and practice of hemodialysis.
- Also asks
- Employees must meet the necessary requirements of Ishihara's Color Blindness test as a condition of employment. Employees have to meet the necessary requirements of Ishihara's Color Blindness test as a condition of employment.
Preferred
- Experience
- One year of medical-surgical nursing experience. Minimum of one-year medical-surgical nursing experience preferred.
- Experience
- Hemodialysis experience. Hemodialysis experience preferred.
- Experience
- ICU experience. ICU experience preferred.
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- Delegates tasks to LVN/LPNs, PCTs and dialysis assistants. Delegates tasks to all direct patient care staff including but not limited to LVN/LPNs, Patient Care Technicians, and Dialysis Assistants.
- Day to day
- Builds the daily patient care assignments. Assesses daily patient care needs and develops appropriate patient care assignments.
- Day to day
- Accurately implements treatment prescriptions including Sodium (Na) modeling prescription and Ultrafiltration modeling (where appropriate).
- Day to day
- Teaches patients about their kidney disease, vascular access and dialysis. Provides ongoing education to patients regarding their renal disease, vascular access and dialysis therapy
- Day to day
- Troubleshoots access flow problems flagged by OLC/AMP yellow lights. Takes appropriate intervention for changes in patient adequacy status and troubleshooting access flow issues as identified by OLC/AMP yellow lights.
- Day to day
- Provides and monitors hemodialysis access care. Provides, supervises (if applicable), and monitors hemodialysis access care according to established procedures.
- Day to day
- Gives and monitors interdialytic transfusions. Implements, administers, monitors, and documents patient's response to prescribed interdialytic transfusions
- Day to day
- Gives medications as prescribed or per approved algorithms. Administers medications as prescribed or in accordance with approved algorithm(s)
- Day to day
- Reports panic and abnormal lab results to physicians. Reports alert/panic and abnormal labs results to appropriate physician.
- Floating
- Covers any or all area facilities as management requires. Provide coverage at any or all area facilities as required by management.
- Travel
- May be sent to cover other area facilities.
- Details
- Regular heavy lifting and moving of patients. The position provides direct patient care that regularly involves heavy lifting and moving of patients
- Details
- Frequent, prolonged standing. This position requires frequent, prolonged periods of standing
- Details
- Occasionally moves machines up to 200 lbs with help. The employee may occasionally be required to move, with assistance, machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs.
- Details
- Exposure to infectious and contagious diseases. May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases/materials.
Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
On your path
Dialysis is open from year one. Clinics train you on the machines; acute wants chronic time first.
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Staff Registered Nurse position in hemodialysis health care team at Fresenius Medical Care. Responsible for provision of quality patient care for patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Duties include directing Patient Care Technicians, delegating tasks to LVN/LPNs, assessing daily patient care needs, monitoring patient care staff, participating in staff training, educating patients regarding renal disease and dialysis therapy, administering medications, maintaining competency with emergency operational procedures, initiating CPR and emergency measures, overseeing documentation of patient information, ensuring clean and safe environment in dialysis facility, and operating dialysis-related equipment.
What's around it?
Fairfax, VAFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $2,245/mo
- Household income
- $132,348/yr, all local households, not nurse pay