Dialysis Program Coordinator

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

1d•Onsite

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
Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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.