Travel Nurse (RN) - Dialysis Unit

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

References must cover at least 1 full year of relevant experience in specialty within the past 3 years.

Shift: 2/3 overnight calls. Every third Saturday, then on call until Monday 0700. 1 hour response time for call. Emergent cases only. Closed on Sundays, just the weekend nurse on call.

Weekend Required: Will work every other weekend

On Call required as needed.

Block Schedule: Discuss schedule requests with manager.

Special Requirements:

-Required Work Setting Experience: Acute Care Inpatient Dialysis.

-Required Patient Care Experience: Acute renal failure, Acute Kidney Injury, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis.

-Required Dialysis treatment Skills/Experience: Administration of blood/blood products during treatment, Administration of Mannitol/albumin/ 23.4% NaCL, Blood flow rates (Qb), Dialysate flow rate (Qd), Peritoneal catheter malfunction, Vascular access malfunction, Venous pressure.

-Required Equipment Skills/Experience: B. Braun Dialog.

-Required Initiate/ set up dialysis treatment Skills/Experience: Absence of disinfectant in system, Ability to cannulate AV graft, Ability to cannulate AV fistula, Tunneled/ Non Tunneled Catheter.

-Required Machine alarm troubleshooting procedures Skills/Experience: Arterial pressure alarm, Blood leak detector, Conductivity alarm, Venous pressure alarm.

-Required Post dialysis treatment Skills/Experience: Post treatment access care. Required Professional Knowledge and Skills: Airway management, Blood glucose monitoring, Infection control.

-Required Symptom management Skills/Experience: Air emboli, Cardiac arrest, Chest pain, Clotted access/poor blood flow rate, Disequilibrium syndrome, Filter blood leak, Fluid overload, Hyperkalemia, Hypotension, Muscle cramps, Pyrogenic reaction, Seizures.

-Teaching Hospital Experience, Community Hospital Experience, Trauma Level I & II Experience preferred.

Scrub Color: Provided for this role.

Parking Cost: Parking permit required, no cost. Will fill out form during orientation.

RTO – we can auto-approve 5 days of non holiday RTO or less. Anything more requires facility approval.

Candidate must work 2 out of 3 major holidays.

Background Policy to be noted prior to submission so we can seek approval prior to offer.

Any Perm or PRN employee of Memorial must be away for 12 months before applying as a traveler.

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: Please request an interview for one match from this facility at a time. You will not interview with the hiring manager if the facility chooses to extend an offer to you for this position. All time off requests must be submitted at application. Scheduling requests must be worked out with the manager directly upon starting the assignment. Any offers for this job will require a clear "Yes" or "No" response from the nurse within 24hrs or the offer must be declined.