Acute Inpatient Registered Nurse - RN

Inpatient Services RN CAP 1

Join our team at Indy North Acutes in a hospital setting. Paid training in dialysis is provided! This full-time position requires 36 - 40 hours a week with rotating shifts, covering area hospitals in Northern Indianapolis, IN.

Job Description

• Accountable and responsible for the provision and coordination of clinically competent care including assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation for an assigned group of patients.
• Delegate appropriate tasks to direct patient care staff including RNs, LVN/LPNs, and Patient Care Technicians.
• Participate in decision-making, teaching, leadership functions, and quality improvement activities that enhance patient care outcomes and program operations.
• Perform ongoing, systematic collection and analysis of patient data pre, during, and post-treatment for assigned patients.
• Assess, collaborate, and document patient/family's basic learning needs to provide initial and ongoing education to patients and family.
• Recognize aspects and implications of patient status that vary from normal and report to or collaborate with appropriate health team members.
• Direct and provide safe effective patient care for assigned patients as prescribed for all modality-specific treatment procedures.
• Initiate and coordinate communication with FKC and Non-FKC dialysis providers and appropriate contracted facility personnel as needed.
• Administer medications as prescribed and document appropriate medical justification and effectiveness.
• Initiate and assist with emergency response measures.
• Serve as a resource for the health care team, participate in staff training and orientation of new staff as assigned.
• May be assigned to assist in an outpatient facility on an as-needed basis.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• The position provides direct patient care that regularly involves heavy lifting, moving of patients, and assisting with ambulation.
• Requires frequent, prolonged periods of standing and the ability to bend over.
• May occasionally be required to move machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs., and lift chemical and water solutions of up to 30 lbs. as high as 5 feet.
• The work environment is characteristic of a health care facility with air temperature control and moderate noise levels.
• May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases/materials.
• Day-to-day work includes desk work, computer work, interaction with patients, facility/hospital staff, and physicians.
• Position requires travel to training/meeting sites and between assigned facilities.
• Participation in on-call rotation, night, weekend, holiday or as defined by individual program needs is required.

Supervision

• Assigned oversight of Patient Care Technicians/LVN/LPNs/RNs as a designated Nurse in Charge after meeting all training requirements.

Education and Licensure

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Current appropriate state licensure.
• Current or successful completion of CPR BLS Certification.

Experience and Required Skills

• Entry level for RNs with less than 2 years of Nephrology Nursing experience as an RN.
• Minimum 9 months experience as a Registered Nurse; 12 months preferred.
• 6 months acute dialysis experience preferred.
• Hemodialysis and/or ICU experience preferred.