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This position teaches and educates patients, physicians, and teammates on CKD and ESRD modality options including lifestyle benefits, challenges, techniques and alternatives within a division or group. This position assesses existing modality education programs, recommends changes, and implements improvements as appropriate. This position monitors and analyzes modality metrics. This position participates in developing, revising, reviewing, and implementing modality options, policies, and procedures. Responsibilities of this job include: - Educate and inform patients, patient families, and teammates about treatment options; provide assistance with dialysis transitions as required
- Work with on-site social workers and dietitians to identify and educate potential and existing patients on specific modality
- Implement and coordinate CKD and ESRD modality options program as needed
- Track and report patients contacted and individual patient statistics as applicable
- Monitor, trend, and report modality metrics including but not limited to original patient modality, modalities patients transition to throughout dialysis treatment, and percent of patients that begin in-center dialysis with a fistula
- Identify areas for improvement; recommend action plans to address
- Participate in CQI meetings to ensure areas for improvement are addressed and appropriate action plans are formulated per policy and procedure
- Identify and communicate best practices
- Identify, develop, implement, and monitor facility specific therapy goals in collaboration with Regional Operations Directors, Facility Administrators, and Clinical Services Specialists
- Develop and/or implement marketing initiatives as necessary for the assigned area; collaborate with DaVita Medical Directors and attending nephrologists to improve ESRD referral base and practice growth and/or host education programs
- Create local partnerships to increase awareness of options for pre-ESRD patients within community and with physicians
- Collaborate with facility administrators to implement marketing aligned with individual facility management action plans
- Provide education to partnered nephrologists and primary care physicians regarding each modality as treatment options
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to:
- Attend team meetings, phone conferences, and training as needed
- Know, understand, and follow teammate guidelines, employment policies, and department or company procedures
- Travel required: up to 50% depending on modality
- Associate's degree in Nursing, Bachelor's degree in Nutrition or Dietetics, or Master's degree in Social Work required
- Current licensure or certification in state of practice as Registered Nurse, Registered Dietitian, or Master's Social Worker required
- Education related to licensure or certification for above positions required; see individual job descriptions for these positions
- Minimum of one (1) year's nephrology experience required; home dialysis experience preferred
- Demonstrated knowledge of chronic, peritoneal, nocturnal, and home hemodialysis required
- Demonstrated knowledge of bundling required
- Experience in case management, home health, disease management, or hospice preferred
- Minimum of one (1) year's experience educating patients on ESRD and CKD programs strongly preferred
- Experience in teaching the adult learner with demonstrated ability to recognize and customize education to individual learning styles preferred
- Current CPR certification required
- Current driver's license, reliable transportation, and vehicle insurance in state of residence required
- Intermediate computer skills and proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook required; functional proficiency with DaVita applications including but not limited to SNAPPY,
- Reggie, Laboratory, and D.U.C.K. required within 90 days of employment or position change
Why wait? Explore a career with DaVita today. Here is what you can expect when you join our Village. - Fun, relationships-based culture-patient- and teammate-driven
- FORTUNE 500 stability-with the nation's largest independent provider of dialysis services
- Training Magazine Top 125 award-winning education
- Multiple career paths across a variety of cutting-edge modalities
- Rewards for your stellar performance
- Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average-treating more than one-third of the dialysis population (that's approximately 100,000 patients!)
- Exceptional benefits-including the healthcare industry's most generous profit sharing program
- Dedication above all to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure-at over 800 hospital units and approximately 1,500 outpatient dialysis clinics nationwide
DaVita is proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing and background verification checks. 
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