Dialysis Program Coordinator

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta • Atlanta, GA

2d

About The Position

Coordinates operation of assigned components of dialysis program, including planning, implementing, monitoring, and improving quality of services, overseeing day-to-day operations, and maintaining fiscal accountability. Proactively supports efforts that ensure delivery of safe patient care and services and promote a safe environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Requirements

• 2 years of clinical nursing experience
• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days of hire
• Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) or Pediatric Emergency Assessment Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS) certification from the American Heart Association within 1 year of hire
• Professional Nursing Certification deemed by department required within one year of hire
• Must possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Leadership abilities

Nice To Haves

• Preceptor experience strongly preferred
• One year of leadership and/or people management experience strongly preferred
• Previous dialysis or apheresis experience strongly preferred
• Experience in pediatrics, cardiac, neonatal, or critical care preferred
• Certified Dialysis Nurse (CDN) through Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission (NNCC) upon hire. If not CDN upon hire, strongly preferred to achieve certification within 3 years of hire. If unable to meet CDN eligibility requirements, preferred to achieve Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) upon meeting eligibility requirements through PNCB.

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily dialysis program operations.
• Performs hemodialysis priming, emergency management, and bedside clinical care under the direction of the nephrologist.
• Serves as technical expert for dialysis equipment, supplies, procedures, and policies.
• Coordinates and schedules patient procedures.
• Integrates values and language preferences into healthcare delivery through a culturally sensitive process.
• Utilizes clinical decision support tools and resources to recognize issues, prioritize care, and modify plan of care as needed.
• Utilizes appropriate documentation tools to record, measure, and retrieve healthcare data.
• Provides patient and family education appropriate for identified learning needs.
• Utilizes resources to plan and provide nursing care that is safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Acts as a clinical resource for patient population in area.
• Maintains competence to provide and/or assist with patient care.
• Participates in planning, creating, and implementing dialysis programs.
• Oversees supervision, onboarding, training, in-services, and competency assessment of dialysis staff.
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance feedback, input, and coaching.
• Promotes growth and development of leadership skills, accountability, clinical decision making, and problem-solving within self and others.
• Pursues educational opportunities to enhance professional growth and clinical expertise for self and others.
• Consults, contributes to, and coordinates care with interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
• Ensures quality customer service and effective communication with all customers and coworkers.
• Works with kidney transplant manager, dialysis manager and financial operations manager to develop and achieve departmental budget, goals, and charge reconciliation practices.
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility in supporting budget, productivity, and resource utilization.
• Engages in ethical practices utilizing principles from the Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Maintains therapeutic and professional relationships with appropriate role boundaries.
• Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• May serve as unit leader on shift in absence of manager.
• Removes or escalates barriers to appropriate leader.
• Oversees equipment maintenance and supply inventory.
• Coordinates utilization of staff for effective and efficient services.
• Participates in dialysis quality and identifies clinical process improvement opportunities.
• Gathers, analyzes, and reports data for dialysis performance measures to dialysis quality team.
• Reviews any adverse events associated with dialysis and partners with nephrology and dialysis quality for continuous assessment and improvement.
• Provides consultation as required at daily huddles.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into clinical judgement and nursing practice.
• Participates in the achievement of organization and department goals.
• Supports regulatory agency compliance and readiness.
• Monitors activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level