NP/PA: Nephrology (Casual) - Northwestern WI
Posted Jul 16, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 4, 2026
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About your past
The posting asks for experience in complex chronic disease management. Tell me about a patient with several chronic conditions you helped manage.
What they are checking: Whether they can balance diabetes, heart failure and kidney disease together, which is common in nephrology.
You'll see about 12 to 15 dialysis patients a day with variable travel times. How do you organize a day like that?
What they are checking: Whether they can run a high-volume rounding day across sites with long drives and still be thorough.
How do you work with the dialysis unit's nurses and dietitians on a patient whose phosphorus stays high?
What they are checking: Whether they lead a team-based approach rather than just changing binder doses on their own.
What would you do
A patient on dialysis wants to stop treatment. How do you approach that conversation?
What they are checking: Whether they can handle goals-of-care discussions with honesty and compassion and involve the right people.
This is a casual role up to 0.4 FTE. How would you stay connected with the team and patients when you aren't there often?
What they are checking: Whether they have a plan for continuity and communication despite part-time hours.
About the work
About 90 percent of this role is dialysis rounding. Walk me through what you assess when you round on a hemodialysis patient.
What they are checking: Whether they check volume status, access, labs, dry weight and adequacy, which is the core of dialysis rounding.
A dialysis patient's potassium comes back 6.4. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they recognize dangerous hyperkalemia and know the immediate steps, including an EKG and adjusting the dialysis bath.
How do you manage anemia in a patient with end-stage kidney disease?
What they are checking: Whether they understand iron studies, ESA dosing and hemoglobin targets in chronic kidney disease.
How do you adjust a patient's dry weight when they keep cramping and dropping their blood pressure during treatment?
What they are checking: Whether they can reason through intradialytic hypotension and fluid goals instead of making blind changes.
What do you check when assessing a fistula or graft, and what would worry you?
What they are checking: Whether they can spot signs of access stenosis, clotting or infection before the access is lost.
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