Pre Lung RN Transplant Coordinator

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retail Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

Job Duties

• Performs and documents physical, psychosocial, and emotional assessments.
• Takes all assessments into consideration age specific criteria.
• Anticipates patient's and/or patient's family's expectations and needs and utilizes them in conjunction with assessment to develop appropriate plan of care for patient.
• Maintains and utilizes competencies per unit expectations.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills in planning and prioritizing nursing care.
• Identifies and implements appropriate nursing interventions based on assessment.
• Completes documentation of interventions.
• Captors with members of health care team, sharing information and observations of patient and/or patient's family, to ensure optimal patient care.
• Prioritizes nursing interventions based upon assessment.
• Identifies changes in condition as evidenced by assessment, labs, x-rays, etc.
• Reports changes and takes follow-up action as appropriate.
• Evaluates implemented interventions and modifies care according to evaluation.
• Documents interventions and modifications to plan of care.
• Adheres to appropriate policies, procedures, clinical pathways, and nationally accepted standards of nursing practice while delivering care to patients.
• Suggests practices to enhance nursing care based on current literature and research.
• Provides answers and/or education to patients and/or patients' families.
• Completes documentation of all education provided.
• Obtains feedback and evaluation of understanding from patient and family.
• Ensures comfort level of post-discharge care.
• Demonstrates effective communication with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults.
• Welcomes and orients patient and family to unit.
• Encourages patient and family participation in care.
• Reviews plan of care with patient and family.
• Explains special diets, tests, procedures, and medications.
• Makes rounds on patients.
• Reports errors promptly and takes appropriate follow-up action to rectify errors.
• Provides supervision of, and direction to, unlicensed support personnel and nurses new to unit.
• Delegates duties appropriately and within legal parameters.
• Responds to patient's and/or family's complaints in appropriate and effective manner.
• Reports complaints to Clinical Nurse Manager or designee in timely manner.
• Utilizes chain of command to resolve issues.
• Serves as advocate to patient and family.
• Participates in performance improvement activities as directed.
• Attends at least 80% of scheduled staff meetings and 100% of mandatory educational sessions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.