Dialysis Tech12 Hour Days
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital - MT
Location
Rapid City, SD | United States
Job description
Summary:
- Certified Hemodialysis Patient tech is any person who provides direct care to patients and who is not classified as another professional, like a nurse, dietitian or social worker.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse
- Weighs patient and takes vital signs before, during and after treatment
- Sets up dialysis machines in readiness for therapy and breaks machine down after therapy based on company protocol
- Follow established safety and infection control precautions, policies and procedure
- Perform catheter care under the direction of a registered nurse
- Cannulate effectively as per protocol and under the supervision of a nurse
- Collects information for the charge nurse during patient assessment and evaluation
- Collects Pre and Post dialysis blood samples
- Spins blood sample before temporary cold storage
- Keeps work area clean
- Performs monthly drain maintenance
- Collects water samples for testing as needed
- Trouble-shoots machine problems as needed
- Documents vital signs and machine pressures as per protocol
- Treat patients and families with respect
Minimum Job Requirements:
- Must complete a training program that is approved by the medical director and governing body, under the direction of a registered nurse, focused on the operation of kidney dialysis equipment and machines, providing direct patient care, and communication and interpersonal skills, including patient sensitivity training and care of difficult patients.
- Meet training credentialing, competency, standards of practice, certification, and licensure in the state in which he or she is employed as a dialysis technician;
- Must have a high school equivalent diploma or equivalency
- Able to lift and move fifty (50) pounds
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