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• Coordinating dialysis center placements for new and medically and financially complex patients requiring outpatient dialysis• Increasing coordination across the care team to facilitate a timely dialysis chair placement• Educating patients about dialysis, including what to expect and their options• Facilitating a smooth transition for patients returning to their dialysis centers after hospitalization• Enhancing analytics and transparency into key metrics • Focusing on patient satisfaction

• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes. • Participates in problem identification and resolution. • Demonstrates ability to problem solve w/ other departments in order to assist member problem resolution. • Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities. • Complies w/ regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice. • Ensures plan is discussed w/ patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner. • Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress. • Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and pa-tient/family education. • Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. • Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections. • Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge. • Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. • Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes w/ physicians and other members of the health care team. • Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation. • Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes. • Applies standard precautions. • Maintains a safe environment for self and others• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customer's ability to utilize resources. • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality. • Treats all families of patients w/ courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.

* Deliver independent nursing care for patients utilizing evidence based practices.* Provide excellent patient-centered care for both mother and baby, including but not limited to assessments, medication administration, interpreting lab values, fundus checks, pain management for both mother and baby and jaundice management per unit protocol and MD orders.* Patient education on breast feeding in addition to proper latch and holds best for mom and baby.* Collaboration with physicians regarding critical lab values and patient assessment outcomes.* Providing support and encouragement to new parents.* Unit Super user for the Mother/Baby unit using Epic software.

* Communicate effectively with all members of the surgical team to ensure optimal, patient post-op surgical outcome.* Ensure all pre-op consents have been signed and all lab work and orders are appropriate.* Ensure surgical room is set up properly including supplies, equipment and medications.* Patient advocate before, during and immediately after procedure until patient is safely transferred to recovery room nurse.* Assisting other members of the OR as needed.* Proficient in OpTime Epic Software.