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Student Nurse Clinical Placement - Houston

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Healthcare
    Science
  • Houston

Responsibilities

  • Nursing students must adhere to all facility and FMCNA policies and procedures. Based on the length of the clinical placement, the student nurses may perform all or some of the duties as time allows after they receive training in the specific functional area.
  • Escort patients to and from the scale
  • Assist patient with washing access
  • Vital signs, including weight
  • Attend daily huddles
  • Surface disinfection stations/machines
  • Hand crank in emergency
  • Lab preparation
  • Internal machine disinfection
  • Check for residual bleach
  • Mix bleach water
  • Check blood sugars
  • Administer ONSP per order
  • Pre initiation safety check
  • RN Assessment/POC in tandem with preceptor RN
  • Attend Care plan meeting
  • Crash cart, AED, refrigerator daily checks
  • Medication review with preceptor
  • Attend QAI Meeting
  • Attend POC Meeting
  • Foot checks with RN preceptor
  • Access assessment with RN preceptor
  • Obtain pH and conductivity of machine
  • Observe in Home Therapies
  • Attend a clinic day in HT
  • Attend a day at the access center
  • Allowable Duties:
  • Machine Set up
  • Machine tear down
  • Post treatment emptying
  • Water checks
  • Draw blood cultures and labs
  • Lead a daily huddle
  • Initiate or terminate a treatment on a patient with a mature fistula or graft only (preceptor to cannulate)
  • Medication administration: heparin, lidocaine, and NS
  • Assist on QAI team project with preceptor RN
  • Preparation of dialysate

Every patient, every day

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Employees
1996
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is the premier healthcare company focused on providing the highest quality care to people with renal and other chronic conditions. Through its industry-leading network of dialysis facilities and outpatient cardiac and vascular labs, Fresenius Medical Care North America provides coordinated healthcare services at pivotal care points for hundreds of thousands of chronically ill customers throughout the continent. As the world’s largest fully integrated renal company, it offers specialty pharmacy and laboratory services, and manufactures and distributes the most comprehensive line of dialysis equipment, disposable products, and renal pharmaceuticals. For more information, visit the FMCNA website at https://fmcna.com/.