Job Description
Responsibilities When it comes to choosing a hospital, one thing is clear: quality and convenience count. Northern Nevada Medical Center 's tradition of providing quality healthcare in a comfortable, accessible environment means peace of mind for the thousands of patients served by the hospital each year. Northern Nevada Medical Center is a -bed acute care hospital located on hillside acres at 5 E. Prater Way in Sparks, Nevada.
What we at Northern Nevada Medical Center value:
• Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
• Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
• Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
• Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
• Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
• Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
• Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.
Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com
This Dialysis Registered Nurse opportunity is full time at hours per week, offers full benefits and a convenient day shift position. The Registered Nurse working in the Dialysis Program is responsible for independently utilizing nursing practices to care for adult dialysis patients while planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating all patient care safely, therapeutically, and efficiently. The RN may provide guidance and support to patient team members such as Dialysis Techs in accordance with their level of training and the patient’s acuity.
Job Duties/Responisibilities:
- Demonstrate competent skills to perform renal replacement therapy treatments per nephrologist orders. The Dialysis RN will perform appropriate patient assessments, evaluation, ongoing monitoring, and nursing interventions in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates the ability to be self-directed and function independently in the dialysis setting.
- Assist in preparing dialysis treatment areas with needed supplies prior to starting treatments and demonstrates knowledge of nursing procedures and nursing care as it relates to renal replacement therapy.
- Ensures dialysis machines and equipment are maintained in good working order per policy.
Benefits for full and part time employees:
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
- (K) with company match and discounted stock plan
- Career development opportunities within UHS and its +Subsidiaries!
- More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com
Universal Health Services:
Qualifications - Preferred 1-2 years of nursing experience with a minimum of 1-2 years in Dialysis nursing.
- Current RN license in the State of Nevada
- Current BCLS Certification