Nephrology Nursing Careers
We are continually looking for nurses to join our kidney health teams across Manitoba.
Day & Evening Shifts
- Units operate days and evenings
- Stand-by hours outside of unit operating hours
A Lifelong Career
- Leadership and advancement opportunities
- Nephrology nursing certification available
- Conferences and educational opportunities
Paid Training
- Earn while taking the Manitoba Nephrology Nursing Course
Be Challenged Professionally
- Make clinical judgments
- Teach patients
- Learn and champion innovative dialysis technology
- Use a variety of skill sets in caring for diverse patient population
- Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary health-care teams
Rewarding
- Time for bedside care
- Establish professional relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and families
Interested in visiting a unit to learn more about nephrology nursing?
Visits to hemodialysis units for clinical observations are resuming.
Please feel free to complete the Clinical Observation Request Form to learn more about nephrology nursing.
Nephrology Nursing Opportunities Across Manitoba
- HSC Winnipeg
- Seven Oaks General Hospital
- St. Boniface Hospital
- Brandon Regional Health Centre
- MRP Program Team
- Ashern
- Berens River
- Boundary Trails
- Dauphin
- Flin Flon
- Gimli
- Hodgson
- Island Lake
- Norway House
- Pine Falls
- Portage La Prairie
- Russell
- Selkirk
- Steinbach
- Swan River
- The Pas
- Thompson
What types of Nephrology Nursing positions are there?
Hemodialysis nursing is frequently the entry point for nurses interested in a career in Nephrology Nursing.
Hemodialysis nurses provide highly specialized care to patients receiving acute and ongoing chronic hemodialysis. The nurse assesses and monitors a patient before, during and immediately after the dialysis procedure. Patient education regarding self-management when not on dialysis is also a significant role for the hemodialysis nurse.
Hemodialysis nurses are employed in the 21 Kidney Health Centres/Hemodialysis sites in Manitoba. Throughout the province, the MRP has established standardized equipment, policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines to ensure the nurses provide consistent care.
To become a Hemodialysis Nurse, RNs and LPNs must complete the Manitoba Nephrology Nursing Course (MNNC). An equivalent course and/or experience may be considered.
Home Hemodialysis Nurses are employed at the Health Sciences Centre and Seven Oaks Hospital. Their specific roles and responsibilities include providing potential patients with information to determine if this is the most appropriate modality, teaching patients and family members to administer hemodialysis at home and providing ongoing management and follow-up to the patients (including teleconferencing, home and clinic visits).
Most nurses interested in Home Hemodialysis nursing will have completed the MNNC and practised as a Hemodialysis Nurse for a period of time, or will have obtained equivalent education and experience.
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Nurses are employed at St. Boniface Hospital, Seven Oaks Hospital and with the Peritoneal Dialysis Community Care program. PD nurses are responsible for delivering peritoneal dialysis care. Specific roles and responsibilities include providing potential patients with information about the modality to help determine if it is appropriate for their needs, teaching patients and family members to administer PD at home, and providing ongoing support and follow-up to the patients in the community (including teleconferencing, home and clinic visits).
Most nurses interested in PD will have completed the MNNC and practised as a Hemodialysis Nurse for a period of time or will have obtained equivalent education and experience.
The Local Renal Health Centres (LRHCs) Program is an innovative program within the MRP that delivers hemodialysis in satellite units throughout rural and northern Manitoba. The purpose of the program is to enhance the quality of life for patients living with end-stage renal disease by allowing them to receive treatment and reside as close as possible to their home community.
The LRHCs Program Nurses are situated at the Health Sciences Centre. Their roles and responsibilities include: coordinating patient transfers to and from the LRHCs, participating in weekly LRHCs interdisciplinary clinics, participating in weekly teleconferencing rounds with the LRHCs, maintaining shadow charts for the patients dialyzing in these centres, coordinating medical and non-medical follow up care in Winnipeg and providing clinical expertise to the LRHC nurses.
To become a Community Dialysis Nurse, individuals must have completed the MNNC and have two years previous experience as a hemodialysis nurse.
Renal Health Clinics have been established at Health Sciences Centre, Seven Oaks General Hospital, St. Boniface Hospital and Brandon Regional Health Centre. Patients at risk of developing end-stage renal disease are referred by their family physicians to a Renal Health Clinic. At the clinic, patients are followed by an interdisciplinary team. Once again, the Renal Health Nurses play an integral role on this team.
This role includes providing education and clinical support to patients in all stages of renal disease. In addition, these nurses closely monitors the patient’s renal function and provide the psycho-social support needed as patients near end-stage renal disease. The Renal Health Nurses offer ongoing renal education classes to patients and families, health-care providers and the community at large. Focus is placed on health promotion and disease prevention. High-risk communities are strategically targeted.
To become a Renal Health Nurse, most nurses will have completed the MNNC and practised as a Hemodialysis Nurse and/or a Peritoneal Dialysis Nurse for a period of time. Equivalent education and experience may be considered.
Educates and teaches patients about vascular access, coordinates with vascular access surgeons and provides clinical support.
Nurse educators work as part of a dialysis program in hospital and regionally. They train, educate and support staff to perform nephrology nursing tasks. This can include facilitating the Nephrology Nursing Course, helping implement new policies and procedures, aiding in introduction of and training on new equipment and supplies and more. Nurse educators help uphold standardized approaches to safe, quality patient care throughout the program and units.
Many nephrology nurses become patient care managers who oversee staff and patient care in dialysis units and programs. Patient care managers schedule and monitor unit nursing staff, help implement policies and procedures, guide and inform planning and changes within the units, help inform regional approaches to care and planning and support patients as needed. Care managers help oversee a variety of programs including the kidney health clinic, home dialysis programs and the dialysis units.
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How to Apply
Apply for a dialysis nurse or other position through the job posting boards of your desired health region.
Manitoba Nephrology Nursing Course
The MNNC is a nine-week course that prepares nurses to care for patients during their hemodialysis