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About the Role
Join DaVita's close-knit, community-focused clinic team as a Patient Care Technician (PCT). This role offers fully paid training, endless career growth opportunities, and the chance to make a significant impact in your community by assisting registered nurses in providing life-saving dialysis treatments.
Responsibilities
- Assists registered nurses in providing life-saving dialysis treatment for End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) patients.
- Receives patients into the treatment area; weighs patients, takes temperature and blood pressure pre- and post-dialysis, and documents all parameters.
- Sets up, monitors, cleans, and disinfects dialysis machines and reverse osmosis water systems; responds to visual and audible alarms during treatments.
- Obtains blood samples and culture specimens, prepares them for shipment, and monitors the status of vascular accesses.
- Initiates dialysis via approved accesses using proper cannulation techniques after completing clinical training.
- Monitors patient observations and treatment compliance; reports any out-of-range parameters to the registered nurse.
Requirements
- Accredited High School diploma, general education development (GED) credential, or equivalent.
- Desire to learn and compassion for patients.
- Dialysis Technician Certification must be obtained within 18 months of hire.
- Current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification must be obtained within 60 days of employment.
- Ability to lift a minimum of 5 lbs to a max of 50 lbs unassisted.
- Ability to stand, sit, stoop, walk, stretch, reach, and use a full range of body motions.
- Potential for contact with blood, body fluids, or tissues requires appropriate personal protection equipment.
Skills
- Patient monitoring
- Equipment management
- Clinical support
- Dialysis initiation
- Data collection
- CPR certification
Location
- 599 Court Street, West Branch, Michigan, 48661, United States of America
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- High School Diploma or GED
- Dialysis Technician Certification (within 18 months)
- CPR Certification (within 60 days)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive total rewards package
Benefits
- Fully Paid Training
- Continuing education support
- Tuition assistance
- 401k match
- Healthcare coverage
About the Company
- DaVita strives to be a community first and a company second, aiming for teammates to experience DaVita as 'a place where I belong.'
- The company's goal is to embed belonging into everything they do.
Equal Opportunity
- Proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements.
- Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.