Acute Inpatient Registered Nurse - RN
Company: Fresenius Medical Care
Location: Maumee
Posted on: November 4, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description - • Full-time, paid training to ensure you’re
set up for success from day one. • Earn More Where It Counts –
Enjoy an acute care differential on top of your competitive base
rate • Grow Your Nursing Career – Take advantage of our RN Cap
Program for professional development, advancement, and leadership
opportunities. • Opportunities to work across multiple hospitals
within our network for greater flexibility and experience. •
Comprehensive full-time benefits, including 401(k), medical,
vision, and tuition reimbursement. PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The
registered professional nurse (CAP RN 1) position is an entry level
designation into the Clinical Advancement Program for Registered
Nurses. The CAP RN 1 is accountable and responsible for the
provision and coordination of clinically competent care including
assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation for an assigned
group of patients. As a member of the Kidney Disease health care
team, the CAP RN 1 participates in decision-making, teaching,
leadership functions, and quality improvement activities that
enhance patient care outcomes and program operations. PRINCIPAL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: All duties and responsibilities are
expected to be performed in accordance with Fresenius Kidney Care
and applicable contractual service policy, procedures, standards of
nursing practice, state and federal regulations. - Performs all
essential functions under the direction of the Program Manager (PM)
and with guidance from the Educator, Preceptor or an Inpatient
Services CAP RN 2, 3, 4 or 5 for the first 6 months of employment.
- Expected to complete requirements to advance to the next
Inpatient CAP level, for which they qualify, within 24 months from
date of hire. - Performs ongoing, systematic collection and
analysis of patient data pre - during - post treatment for assigned
patients and documents in the patient medical record, adjusts or
modifies the treatment plan as indicated and notifies inpatient
program manager, appropriately credentialed physician, patient's
primary nurse and others as may be indicated. - Recognizes aspects
and implications of patient status that vary from normal and
reports to or collaborates with appropriate health team members for
input including but not limited to manager, appropriate physician,
and acute primary nurse. - Assesses daily assigned patient care
needs and collaborates with direct and ancillary patient care staff
as needed. - Directs and provides safe effective patient care for
assigned patients as prescribed for all modality specific treatment
procedures. - Initiates and coordinates communication with FKC and
Non-FKC dialysis providers and appropriate hospital personnel as
needed to provide continuity of patient care. - Administers
medications as prescribed and in accordance with contractual
agreement. - Ensures nephrology physician orders for assigned
patients are received and entered in the Medical Record. - Enters
all treatment data into the designated medical record thoroughly,
accurately and in a timely manner. - Performs 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. - Ensures familiarity with company, inpatient
services program and contracted provider emergency policy to
initiate and assist with emergency response measures. - Delegates
appropriate tasks to direct patient care staff including but not
limited to LVN/LPNs and Patient Care Technicians. - Monitors
patient care staff for appropriate techniques and adherence to FKC
policy and procedures. - Promotes infection control, equipment and
environmental safety. - Assesses, collaborates and documents
patient/family's basic learning needs to provide initial and
ongoing education to patients and family. - Instructs
hospital/facility staff on aspects of specialized care related to
renal replacement and apheresis therapies. - Collaborates with the
interdisciplinary team to update the nursing assessment and plan of
care for assigned patients. - Initiates, documents, and completes
ongoing QAI activities including monthly reports as directed by
manager or designee. - Serves as a resource for health care team,
participates in staff training and orientation of new staff as
assigned. - Participates in all required staff meetings as
scheduled. - May be assigned to assist in an Outpatient facility on
an as needed basis. - Supports and promotes the FMCNA's mission,
vision, values, and customer service philosophy. - Performs all
other duties as assigned by manager within state, federal and
contractual standards. PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS: -
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described
here are representative of those an employee encounters while
performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions. - Areas of practice are
diverse, including, but not limited to, the fields of hemodialysis,
peritoneal dialysis, continuous renal replacement therapies, and
apheresis. - The position provides direct patient care that
regularly involves heavy lifting and moving of patients, and
assisting with ambulation. Equipment aids and/or coworkers may
provide assistance. This position requires frequent, prolonged
periods of standing and the employee must be able to bend over. The
employee may occasionally be required to move, with assistance,
machines and equipment of up to 200 lbs., and may lift chemical and
water solutions of up to 30 lbs. as high as 5 feet. The work
environment is characteristic of a health care facility with air
temperature control and moderate noise levels. May be exposed to
infectious and contagious diseases/materials. - May be asked to
provide essential functions of this position in other locations
with the same physical demands and working conditions as described
above. - Day to day work includes desk work, computer work and
interaction with patients, facility/hospital staff and physicians.
The position requires travel between assigned facilities and
various locations within the community and travel to regional
meetings may be required. - Position requires participation in
on-call rotation. (Night, Weekend or as defined by individual
program needs). SUPERVISION: - Assigned oversight of Patient Care
Technicians/LPNs as a designated Nurse in charge, after the
following: - Successful completion of all FKC education and
modality specific training requirements for new employees plus -
Must have a minimum of 9 months experience as an RN plus - 6 months
experience in dialysis EDUCATION: - Graduate of an accredited
School of Nursing. - Current appropriate state licensure. - Must
meet the practice requirements in all states in which he or she is
employed. EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS: - Entry level for RNs
with less than 2 years of nephrology nursing experience within the
last two years or for RNs with a BSN and less than 1 year of
nephrology nursing experience within the last two years. - Minimum
of 9 months experience as a Registered Nurse (preferred). - Minimum
6 months nephrology experience required before working
independently without a qualified dialysis RN - 6 months dialysis
experience required to be on-call. - Hemodialysis and/or ICU
experience (preferred). - Successful completion of FKC Education
and Training requirements for new employees. - Successful
completion and maintenance of CPR BLS Certification. - Meet all
conditions of employment including Ishihara's Color Blindness Test.
- Successful completion of all annual required
education/training/competencies. - Successful completion of
on-going training and education as assigned or required Fresenius
Medical Care maintains a drug-free workplace in accordance with
applicable federal and state laws. EOE, disability/veterans
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