JHH Heart Transplant Coordinator RN

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and coordinating care by providing evidence-based care based on the nursing process, policies, procedures, and protocols of the Johns Hopkins Health System.
• Providing direction to/management of other team members to promote quality, safety, and excellence in care.
• Working collaboratively with and providing leadership for a multidisciplinary health care team to support program initiatives that support quality, safety, and excellence in care.
• Participating in promoting improvement initiatives (clinical, financial, operational) that support, protect and promote area of specialty.
• Implementing initiatives in the area of specialty as directed by nursing and medical leadership.
• Fostering a clinical environment of service excellence.
• Absorbs responsibility for on-call activities that include organizing transplants and triaging patient problems.
• High level of skill in patient triage, able to triage simple and complex problems by telephone.
• Ability to use a computer keyboard to input and obtain data.
• Ability to document legibly using a writing instrument.

Requirements

• The Transplant Nurse Coordinator prepares patients for transplantation through arranging and monitoring required testing, providing education, and ensuring that internal and external activities are coordinated.
• Help to coordinate care and clinically manage post-transplant recipients. This includes prescription refills, clinics, triaging calls, medication reconciliation, reviewing charts, and collaboration with other transplant disciplines like pharmacy, social work, and nutrition.

Qualifications

• Must Have:
• Current registered nurse license in the state of Maryland, or licensed in a compact state.
• Current CPR certification.
• Preferred:
• EPIC experience.
• Experience with heart transplant coordination.

Skills

• Strong Med-Surg/ICU experience and transplant experience.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

Pay

$60/hr

Schedule

3 days per week - The days of the week are flexible; the nurse will be on site, in person, and will attend clinics. M-F; 8-4:30