Dialysis Hospital Services Patient Care Tech (CCHT)

Company: Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Location: Nashville
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

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Founded in 1971, Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI) remains the nation's largest non-profit dialysis provider. With a team of approximately 5,000 talented and caring employees serving across the United States, DCI provides care to nearly 15,000 patients on dialysis and 3,500 patients with chronic kidney disease. We offer a variety of services including in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Each position within DCI, from billers to administrators to nursing staff, contributes toward the goal of providing excellent patient care. Our staff has helped DCI achieve the lowest mortality and hospitalization rates among large dialysis providers for the past 13 years in a row. The Acute Dialysis Patient Care Technician, (CCHT) Under the direction of licensed personnel, implements, monitors, and documents patient care based on established criteria. - -Schedule: Full-time, five 8-hour days; based at Ascension St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville, TNCompensation: Pay range from $18.00 - $22.00 an hour depending on healthcare and dialysis experience; - -Benefits:

• Paid 12-week training with preceptor
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Life and long-term care insurance provided at no additional expense to employee
• Paid time off (PTO) including holidays
• Extended Sick Bank (ESB) in addition to PTO - paid time for doctor appointments, sickness or medical leave
• Retirement plans with $.50 of each contributed dollar matched for eligible employees, up to 8 percent
• Education reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Wellness program
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  What You Can Expect:
  • Actively participate in infection control, risk management and patient education activities
  • Guide new patients through 120-day education plan
  • Obtain and record patient vital signs and machine readings during treatment
  • Role under RN supervision
  • Set up and break down dialysis blood system for treatment
  • Insert and remove patient access needles
  • Monitor patients during dialysis, document changes and inform charge nurse of any concerns
  • Calculate patient's weight loss to reach dry weight
  • Determine patient care priorities and organize work load accordingly
  • Maintain professional working relationship, observing patient privacy and rights
  • Maintain and track inventory
  • Perform laboratory work
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

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