Role Purpose:

To provide nursing care to patients on dialysis treatment.

To assist the Head Nurse / Staff Nurse In-Charge in the running of the dialysis centre.

Accountabilities:

• Prime dialyzer and bloodlines
• Record patient’s medical information and vital signs
• Make ready of dialysis equipment
• Oversees dialysis treatment from start to finish
• Cannulate accesses & catheter dressing upon completion of Privileging (LP 007,012 & 014)
• Demonstrate the abilities to administer medications including thrombolytic
• Identifies irregular dialysis reaction and notify to appropriate team members
• To ensure blood investigations are carried out on schedule or as instructed by the doctor. All blood results to be charted and filed. Any abnormalities of the results should be notified to doctor immediately.
• To ensure patients’ medical files are updated at all times. All prescriptions and doctor’s notes are filed accordingly.
• To inform the Head Nurse of any defective medical equipment, incidents and complaints. To hand over daily occurrence and status to the staff nurse of the next shift via the incident book.
• To inform patients of their next treatment dates and to notify Head Nurse of any changes in schedule.
• To perform counseling and education of patients, including diet and rehabilitation.
• To ensure that the dignity, safety and wellbeing of the patient are respected at all times.
• To observe codes of confidentiality in the nursing care of the individual patient.   
• To develop good communication with patients' relatives and visitors. To greet patient and be courteous to them.
• To maintain professional behavior, appearance and attitudes at all times.
• To perform duties as assigned by superior and willing to be deployed or relocated
• To perform clinical practices according to compony guideline.
• To monitor patient absenteeism rate & required action to be taken accordingly.
• To perform clinical practices according to company guidelines.
• To make sure the patient meets the desired clinical KPI
• To ensure update into RQMT of any incident that occurs in the clinic.
• To ensure Hospitalization & Mortality Rates are updated in Euclid appropriately.
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