**Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Major Duties and Responsibilities)**
- Responsible for the assessment, implementation and evaluation of care to their assigned shift.
- Facilitates the overall traffic and organization within the HD unit for the entire shift.
- Act as a leader in the treatment area during the time of duty.
- Serves as facilitator/preceptor to less experienced staff in the facility.
- Operates hemodialysis machines starting from preparation up, but not limited, to HD procedure termination whenever necessary.
- Assuring the continuity of care to the clients by proper monitoring, documentation, and communication to all the members of the healthcare team.
**CLINICAL**:
- Ensure educational needs of patients and family are met regarding End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
- Provide ongoing education to patients regarding their renal disease, vascular access and dialysis therapy, and other related health conditions.
- Discuss with patient and record education related to diet/fluid and medication compliance.
- Ensure transplant awareness, modality awareness, and drive catheter reduction.
- Educate patients regarding laboratory values and the relationship to adequate dialysis therapy, compliance with treatment schedule, medication and fluid.
- Provide safe and effective delivery of care to patients with ESRD.
- Responsible for accurate implementation of treatment prescription to ensure stable treatment therapy as indicated.
- Operation of dialysis machines for rendering the desired hemodialysis/hemodiafiltration treatment.
- Assess patient's response to hemodialysis treatment therapy making appropriate adjustments and modifications to the treatment plan as indicated by prescribing physician.
- Communicate problems or concerns to the Clinical Manager or physician.
- Initiate initial nursing assessment and ongoing evaluation and documentation of patient care needs.
- Actively participate in the pre-evaluation, initiation, monitoring, termination, access homeostasis, and post evaluation of patients receiving hemodialysis treatment therapy.
- Provide, supervise, and monitor hemodialysis access care according to established procedures.
- Responsible for the implementation, administration, monitoring and documentation of patient's response to prescribed intradialytic transfusions including appropriate notification of adverse reactions to physician and appropriate blood supplier.
- Cannulation of AV Fistula and AV Graft.
; taking vital signs every 30 minutes/1hour if the patient's asleep.
- Ensure accurate documentation on the hemodialysis treatment sheet.
- Ensure appropriate preparation of lab requisitions for local lab.
- Ensure lab results are forwarded to physician as requested.
- Collaborate and communicate with physicians and other members of healthcare team to interpret, adjust, and coordinate care provided to the patient.
- Maintain competency with all emergency operational procedures based on institution's established protocols.
- Maintains cleanliness of the designated station.
(Machines, chairs etc.)
- Performs other administrative duties as required.
**Salary**: Php18,000.00 - Php21,000.00 per month
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Overtime
Supplemental Pay:
- 13th month salary
- Overtime pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- San Juan: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
**Education**:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
**Experience**:
- Nursing: 1 year (preferred)