Dialysis nurse

For patients who require dialysis, the impact on their daily lives is often significant. Sometimes temporary, but regularly also long-term. As a dialysis nurse, you are a constant and trusted point of contact for these patients who come to our department for hemodialysis, plasma filtration, immunoadsorption, or peritoneal dialysis.

What makes our department special? Our department offers tertiary care: we treat not only our own patients, but also patients referred from other departments within Erasmus MC and from the region. This means that you will deal with a great diversity of complex care needs. You work with the latest technologies and treatment methods within dialysis care. Due to the complexity of the work, you constantly switch between different situations and patients. You have no night shifts, but you do have on-call shifts. Our department is closed on Sundays, so you always have a fixed day off during the weekend. The hospital has an important educational function for nurses and physicians.

You set up the dialysis equipment, connect the patient, monitor the treatment, and guide the patient throughout the entire process. But your role goes beyond technology alone.

You are also a mentor to a number of regular patients. This means that, together with the treating physician, you are responsible for the coordination of care, monitoring continuity and quality of life, and aligning care plans together with other disciplines. You work closely with nephrologists (in training), a nurse practitioner, dietitians, social workers, medical students, and the transplant team. In this way, you offer the patient integrated and person-centered care.

In addition, you will get plenty of room to contribute to quality improvement and to participate in professional training, symposia, and innovation projects within Erasmus MC.