Registered Nurse (RN), Transplant Coordinator, Kidney, Full Time, First Shift

About the role

At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering. As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for not only our community, but patients from all over the world. Join our team and you'll be able to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with your peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.

Location: Cincinnati, OH, United States

Responsibilities

• Living Donor Coordinator: Conduct initial screening of all living donor candidates through review of questionnaires, medical history, and referral documentation.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Coordinate and track all phases of donor evaluation, including labs, imaging, specialty consults, and psychosocial assessments.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Provide comprehensive education to donor candidates and families regarding donation risks, benefits, evaluation steps, surgery, recovery expectations, and NKR options.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Serve as the primary point of contact for donors throughout the evaluation and donation process, ensuring timely and compassionate communication.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Collaborate closely with transplant surgeons, physicians, ILDA, social workers, behavioral health providers, HLA labs, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure donor safety and alignment with clinical standards.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Manage coordination and documentation requirements within UNOS/OPTN, CMS, The Joint Commission, and NKR systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Facilitate donor case presentation for multidisciplinary living donor meetings and liver selection committee discussions.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Oversee NKR processes including donor registration, preselect reviews, match offers, crossmatch logistics, organ transport coordination, and serology kit management.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Coordinate donor operative scheduling, pre-operative preparation, and post-operative follow-up, including required UNOS donor follow-up at 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Monitor donor recovery, identify complications or concerns, and coordinate appropriate follow-up testing or clinical intervention.
• Living Donor Coordinator: Support ethical donor advocacy, autonomy, and safety, escalating concerns and collaborating with the Independent Living Donor Advocate as needed.
• Patient Population (CLINICAL ONLY): Engages in population appropriate communication; has knowledge of growth and development milestones and tasks; gives clear instructions to patients/family regarding treatment; involves family/guardian in assessment, initial treatment and continuing care; identifies any physical limitations and deploys intervention when necessary; recognizes and responds appropriately to patients/families with behavioral health problems; interprets population related data and plans care appropriately; identifies and responds appropriately to different needs resulting from unique psychological needs or those associated with religious / cultural norms; performs treatments, administers medication