Professional nurse with extensive experience in dialysis care, skilled in managing patient treatments and ensuring safety. Strong focus on teamwork, adaptability, and delivering high-quality results. Proficient in patient assessment, care coordination, and staff leadership. Reliable and flexible, capable of thriving in fast-paced environments.
- Provide day to day guidance, support, and direct patient care staff, providing informal feedback on an ongoing basis.
- Participate in the department staffing and the appropriate hiring, firing, and disciplinary actions. Recommend disciplinary action to Clinic Manager and initiate as appropriate.
- Ensure compliance with all company and facility approved procedures/policies as well as regulations set forth by state and federal agencies.
- Approve/disapprove time or personnel schedule changes in the absence on the Clinic Manager with applicable regulation, policies, and procedures for documenting time of work hours for staff members on assigned shift.
- Participate in patient care plan meetings.
- Train and orient staff as necessary.
- Promote/Assist with compliance to OSHA programs to maintain safe/clean environment.
- Admit new patients according to facility procedure.
- Maintained high-quality care standards by conducting regular audits of clinical documentation, treatment plans, and medication administration records.
- Increased patient satisfaction scores by consistently delivering exceptional clinical care and addressing patient concerns promptly.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing high-quality care and closely monitoring dialysis treatments.
- Managed challenging situations involving difficult family dynamics or end-of-life decisions with diplomacy, tact, and empathy while preserving patient autonomy whenever possible.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team members to develop individualized care plans for dialysis patients, resulting in improved overall health and wellbeing.
- Increased patient satisfaction scores by consistently delivering exceptional clinical care and addressing patient concerns promptly.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
- Conducted daily shift briefs to inform staff of changes in patient care assignments.
- Mentored and supervised junior nurses, fostering a supportive and professional work environment.
- Promoted a safe working environment by adhering to infection control policies and regularly reviewing safety protocols.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for patients.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies.