Travel Nurse RN - Dialysis
Greensboro, NC
Bestica
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

3253182

Patient population includes those with end stage renal disease, acute kidney injury, metabolic imbalances, dialysis access problems, or drug overdoses requiring hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis treatments.
•Patients are acutely ill with a variety of medical-surgical or critical care diagnoses.
•Apheresis patient population includes patients with various neurologic, renal, or hematologic/oncologic diseases.

•Hemodialysis Department provides hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and apheresis treatments 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
•Department consists of 9 bays and 1 isolation room for known Hep B patients and is equipped for telemetry monitoring.
•Nurses’ station contains a central cardiac monitoring station and a patient call system.
•Nursing care is provided 24 hours, 7 days a week by registered nurses who are supported by an ancillary staff of certified hemodialysis technicians and a nursing secretary.
•Cardiac monitoring is provided by hemodialysis nurses for patients on telemetry or those requiring surveillance during treatments.
•The average length of stay is 4-5 hours in the department for hemodialysis/apheresis.
•For hemodynamically unstable patients in the ICU, treatments are performed in the patient’s room with the hemodialysis nurse at the patient’s bedside during the procedure.
•Peritoneal dialysis is performed in the patient’s room.

Tablo Dialysis Devices
Baxter Amia PD Devices
Spectra Optia Apheresis Devices

ACLS*, BLS

• Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred

  Initiate/ set up dialysis treatment