Patient Care

• Provide safe and effective dialysis therapy for assigned acute-care patients as part of the hemodialysis healthcare team
• Provide patient care under the supervision of the FKC RN
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment
• Support Quality Enhancement Program (QEP), Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAI), patient satisfaction, and process improvement activities
• Support Total Area Productivity goals
• Set up and prime equipment for hemodialysis, continuous renal replacement, and peritoneal dialysis therapies when competent and proficient
• Welcome patients and report complaints or observations to the FMCNA RN
• Evaluate vascular access and report unusual findings
• Obtain and document pre-, post-, and intradialytic vital signs and weights
• Perform vascular access cannulation
• Calculate and enter dialysis machine programming parameters, including ultrafiltration goal, treatment time, sodium modeling, and ultrafiltration modeling
• Ensure appropriate safety alarms are enabled
• Record treatment parameters accurately on the Hemodialysis Treatment Sheet
• Initiate renal replacement treatment according to prescribed orders, including blood flow and dialysate flow rates
• Collect, label, and deliver specimens to the laboratory
• Evaluate intradialytic problems, provide prescribed interventions, monitor patient response, and report unusual findings
• Perform treatment discontinuation, reinfusion, hemostasis, dressing application, and discharge evaluation
• Document interventions, patient responses, vascular access assessments, and pre/post-dialysis evaluations
• Perform other duties as required

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