What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN - Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy position at NemoursCareerSite?
The CRRT team has a NIGHT position AVAILABLE position consisting of 72 biweekly, with every third weekend and holiday rotations on-call.
SIGN ON BONUS!! - up to $10,000!!!
The CRRT Registered Nurse (RN) is a clinician who is specially trained to manage patients receiving CRRT therapy and the management of all clinical components of the extracorporeal equipment and circuitry. The CRRT RN will autonomously perform CRRT therapy under the direction and in collaboration with Nephrology/Program Manager of the CRRT program. This RN will provide consistent clinical support for patients to ensure safe and efficient care delivery that includes provision of expert resourcing and clinical support for the multidisciplinary team.
Position Responsibilities
- Responsible for daily, direct care and management of the CRRT device (priming, initiating, and discontinuing) in all critical care practice areas
- Perform venipunctures, access central venous access devices/ports
- Provides onsite clinical resourcing support for clinical nurses in all practice areas
- Provide on-call clinical resourcing/emergency management
- Participates in annual educational competency training for the multidisciplinary CRRT team
- Responsible to provide additional extracorporeal therapies, such as apheresis and/or ECMO when the CRRT census is zero and/or therapies are performed in tandem
- Responsible to provide direct patient bedside care as a Registered Nurse in a critical care environment when the CRRT census is zero
Position Requirements
- BSN required
- Minimum of 1-year experience required, Pediatric critical care, apheresis, ECMO, or dialysis experience preferred
- Nursing license in the state of Delaware or a compound state that encompasses Delaware
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) upon hire
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 days
- Certification in pediatric and/or critical care nursing preferred
