Katina Hargrove

• Increase patient satisfaction by consistently providing compassionate, personalized care and addressing individual concerns during treatments.
• Coordinate scheduling with nursing staff to ensure adequate coverage for all dialysis shifts while minimizing wait times for patients'' appointments.
• Safeguard patient safety by meticulously following clinic policies, procedures, guidelines, and regulatory requirements during all aspects of hemodialysis treatment delivery.
• Optimize resource utilization by managing supply inventory levels for efficient daily operations.
• Measure and record patients' pre-dialysis and post-dialysis vital statistics.
• Set up and operate dialysis machines for patients receiving treatment for kidney failure.
• Maintain accurate patient charts and medical records.

• Communicated with patients regarding access-related care and planning.
• Ensured that the number of patients with CVCs, LTCs and maturing accesses were reported at the monthly quality improvement meetings.
• Communicated with surgeons in a timely manner regarding maturing fistulas and/or grafts and CVC removal.
• Provided vascular access education to patients and families.
• Ensure facility staff receive ongoing education, including:

-Collaborated with local vascular access centers and

vascular surgeons to improve the staff's skills in identifying timely interventions for vascular access preservation.