RN Clinical Services Nurse Specialist

Socket.dev; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Red Cross is seeking an experienced nurse to provide therapeutic apheresis care across hospitals and Red Cross sites. You will work with physicians and other health care professionals to ensure safe, high-quality patient care while supporting a mission that saves lives.

This role involves performing procedures like plasma exchange, red cell exchange, photopheresis, and collection, with travel to various sites.

Qualifications

• Current RN license in the state.
• Experience with therapeutic apheresis preferred.
• Ability to travel to different hospitals and Red Cross sites.
• Excellent communication with patients and care teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform apheresis procedures autonomously in multiple settings.
• Perform venipuncture and access central venous catheters when needed.
• Oversee all phases of apheresis procedures and explain procedures to patients and families.
• Act as a consultant to external health care personnel about clinical apheresis.
• Assess patient status using nursing process and labs during procedures.
• Coordinate care with physicians and nurses across hospitals for treatments.
• Evaluate medications for compatibility and safety with procedures.

Skills

Apheresis procedures

Venipuncture

Patient assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or RN-equivalent

Job description

By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?

Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!

Job Description:

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview):

At the American Red Cross, you have a direct impact on a meaningful mission. When you join our team, you can help save lives every day. You’ll be part of a like-minded team that shares a passion for making a difference and a work environment that supports growth, learning, and success.

This position is a unique opportunity to provide 1-on-1 care to patients in a specialty area (Therapeutic Apheresis). Our nurses get to work collaboratively with physicians and act as the go-between for the physician and the patient. You will get to travel to different hospitals and Red Cross sites. We do the following procedures: plasma exchange, red cell exchange leukapheresis, stem cell harvests, photopheresis, therapeutic phlebotomies, platelet reductions, and white blood cell depletion.

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD (Key Responsibilities):

• You will perform Apheresis procedures autonomously in multiple settings, including critical care, emergency room, and freestanding outpatient centers.
• Perform venipunctures, access central venous catheters, and access vortex and bard ports.
• Perform all phases of therapeutic apheresis procedures (plasma exchange, red cell exchange, platelet, and white cell reduction, photopheresis, and hematopoietic progenitor cell collection), to ensure safe and appropriate care of the patient and explain, as needed, the procedures for patients and their family and other attending healthcare professionals.
• Act as a consultant to external health care personnel about clinical apheresis.
• Assess patient status relative to therapeutic apheresis, prior to and during procedures, utilizing the nursing process, laboratory testing results, and other clinically significant procedures.
• Coordinate closely with physicians and nurses at a variety of hospitals to arrange therapeutic apheresis treatments and facilitate coordinated care.
• Evaluate patient medication for compatibility and safety of apheresis procedure and determine when to contact the physician.
• Assemble, restock, QC, and maintain supplies and equipment in a state of readiness to maintain a clean, safe, and efficient work environment.