Registered Nurse Pediatric Kidney Transplant Coordinator

• Facilitates care of the end stage organ failure patient referred to transplant program.
• Coordinates patient entry and introduction to the transplant program
• Coordinates medical, surgical, financial, psychosocial, nutrition, and pharmaceutical evaluation and on-going care needs of transplant and living donor patients.
• Participates in patient care planning and selection conference.
• Lists patients for transplant in a timely manner to facilitate access to donated organs.
• Registers living donors for directed and non-directed donation in a timely manner to facilitate matching in the transplant program and paired exchange registries, if applicable.
• Maintains the UNOS waiting list according to program policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, and national guidelines.
  Remains knowledgeable of all listed patients' status to ensure patient safety and facilitate organ placement in collaboration with transplant physicians.
• Facilitates patient care as case manager for transplant patients and living donors pre-operatively, inpatient, discharge planning and discharge, post-discharge, and for an indefinite period of time as determined by the multidisciplinary transplant team
• Functions as part of the multidisciplinary transplant team; communicates patient needs to transplant team members.
• Must be able to provide age-specific care and intervention.
• Assesses, plans, and advocates for the patient and families in coordination of care along the continuum with the transplant team, support personnel, community physicians, and outside agencies.
• Provides accurate and timely documentation of care.
• Demonstrates ability to independently make complex care decisions within established protocols.
• Uses critical thinking skills through the process, and involves the patient, family, community physicians and ancillary providers, and the multidisciplinary team to establish and update the plan of care appropriately.
• Provides coordination of patient care and facilitates organ acquisition and transplantation through effective performance of on-call responsibilities in collaboration with transplant physicians.

• Participates in on-going transplant and organ donation education through attendance at professional meetings, webinars, and literature review.
• Serves as a pathfinder and clinical expert by participating in, coordinating, developing, and implementing transplant program initiatives while monitoring and ensuring effective outcomes.
• Models professional behavior and acts as a resource, consultant, and mentor within their specialty area.
• Utilizes current research to create and improve evidence based nursing practice and to guide the development of standards for nursing care in their specialty area.

• Clinical Certification of Transplant Coordinators (CCTC).
• Three years acute care or charge nurse experience.
• Two years organ transplant coordination experience.

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess patient needs.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, etc.

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

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