Transplant Nurse Coordinator (RN) - Liver

Kansas Health System; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kansas Health System, Bell Hospital, is seeking a Transplant Nurse Coordinator (RN) for liver transplant programs. This full-time on-site role focuses on coordinating donor evaluation, recipient care, and post-transplant management within a multidisciplinary team.

The Nurse Coordinator provides education to patients and families, organizes pre- and post-transplant processes, and ensures alignment with transplant center protocols to optimize outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive management of end-stage organ diseases and oversee the patient journey through the transplant process.
• Coordinate living donor evaluation and transplantation and manage living donor care and education.
• Coordinate outpatient transplant care to optimize physical, social and emotional rehabilitation and communicate lab data and treatment changes.
• Maintain candidate listing status and ensure all screening and communications with patients, physicians, payers, and team members.

Skills

Transplant coordination

End-stage disease management

Patient education

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Job description

Position Title

Transplant Nurse Coordinator (RN) - Liver

Days - Full Time

Bell Hospital

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Organ Transplant Nurse Coordinator plans, directs, and provides specialized nursing care with the primary emphasis on the treatment of The Organ Transplant Nurse Coordinator plans, directs, and provides specialized nursing care with the primary emphasis on the treatment of individuals who have advanced or end stage disease and are in need of a transplant. Provides continuity and coordination of patient care; conducts patient and professional education initiatives; collaborative relationship with multidisciplinary teams, community resources and agencies.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrate ability to provide comprehensive management of end-stage organ diseases and oversee the patient's journey through the transplant process.
• Demonstrate knowledge and ability to facilitate living donation/transplantation and will utilize that knowledge to coordinate the care of the living donor for evaluation and live donation. Identifies appropriate live donor candidate upon referral and interacts with appropriate staff.
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to coordinate the care of the transplant recipient in the outpatient setting to achieve optimal physical, social and emotional rehabilitation. Identifies and responds to recipient/family/legal guardian's educational, psychosocial and economic needs in post-transplant phase. Reinforces post-operative teaching if applicable. Collects and reviews data pertinent to recipient's health and organ function. Communicates lab data and diagnostic results to transplant physician/healthcare provider. Implements changes in drug/treatment therapy as ordered by physician(s) and/or health care provider. Arranges for consultations, diagnostic procedures and hospitalization when indicated. Reinforces and facilitates need for well care (i.e., periodic mammography, pap smears and colonoscopy). Ensures recipient is screened annually for malignancy. Assesses recipient's need for immunizations.
• Demonstrates knowledge and the ability to monitor and coordinate care of the candidate awaiting organ transplantation. Develops and institutes a teaching plan addressing transplant candidate/family/legal guardian's learning need. Maintains/ensures communication with patient, referring physicians, payers, other health care providers and transplant team members. Ensures all screening is obtained regularly per transplant center protocols. Maintains routine health maintenance and surveillance for malignancy during the waiting period. Exhibits ability to maintain and update candidate listing status per regulations. Identifies the need for candidate re-evaluation and initiates when appropriate. Provides and maintains comprehensive documentation of candidate progress.
• Demonstrates proficiency and continual growth in the knowledge of transplantation. Reviews and integrates into practice the current professional literature in the field of transplant. Attends practice-related conferences. Participates in professional transplant/procurement organizations. Examines current transplant-related research. Shares knowledge through mentoring/precepting newly hired staff. Demonstrates understanding and the ability to assume responsibility for individual judgments to achieve the highest quality of care for the transplant candidate, recipient, family and living donor.
• Demonstrates understanding and ability to facilitate/coordinate evaluation of potential transplant candidates. Identifies appropriate candidate upon referral and interacts with appropriate staff. Identifies requirements for candidate evaluation. Coordinates with multidisciplinary team the evaluation process for potential transplant candidate
• Demonstrates understanding of post-transplant management including medications, complications, interventions and discharge planning in the coordination of recipient care. Demonstrates the ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary team. Monitors patient progress post-transplant. Identifies complications and considers interventions with the transplant team. Communicates recipient's status to referring physician, health care providers and payers. Identifies and responds to the educational, psychosocial and economic needs of recipient/family/legal guardian during hospitalization. Educates recipient/family/legal guardian regarding care and responsibilities after transplantation.
• Educates candidate/family/legal guardian about living donation options, evaluation process, regulations, organ allocation, waiting phase, transplant process, risks/benefits, including utilization of expanded donors, high-risk donors, if applicable, post-operative phase including immunosuppressive therapy and effects, potential research protocols of the transplant program, candidate/family/legal guardian responsibility throughout the transplant process.
• Exhibits knowledge and ability to fa