RN Post Kidney Transplant Coordinator

About the role

Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. We strive to provide exceptional experiences and support our patients and their families through every step of their journey.

Shift/Schedule

Full-time days, Monday-Friday, five 8-hour days or four 10-hour days. Required "after hour on call" approximately three days a month.

Essential Functions of the Role

• Assessing transplant eligibility for patients involves interviewing them and their families.
• Cooking tests for transplant candidates, identifying issues in results, and arranging necessary care.
• Working closely with patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers during this time.
• Managing recipient's post-transplant care.
• Arranging admissions, lab tests, clinic visits.
• Cooking with healthcare providers to coordinate with referring, primary care.
• Understanding test results, identifying irregularities.
• Scheduling needed care as directed.
• Teaching candidates, families, caregivers about evaluation, organ allocation, waiting, post-operative, immunosuppression effects, complications, and psychological impact of transplant.
• Using insurance knowledge to help with post-transplant prescriptions.
• Assisting patients with coverage issues.
• Maintaining long-term prescriptions.
• Complying with various regulatory policies and maintaining records on the transplant waitlist through different online programs.
• Cooking recipient transplants includes using the donor website and communicating with potential recipients.
• Assessing their health status and notifying hospital departments are important tasks.
• Updating the team with these changes.

Key Success Factors

• Comprehensive skills in nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
• Knowing rules, laws, regulations, standards, guidelines, certifying bodies, accrediting bodies relevant to our department is important.
• Knowledge of medical terms, health practices, disease control, medication specs, and side effects is essential for healthcare professionals.
• Respecting, and diligently observing, professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written, for clear transmission of ideas.
• Basic computer skills: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling systems, payroll systems, electronic medical records, and email use.

Qualifications

• A (2) two-year associate's degree level.
• An (RN) Registered Nurse License.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) skills required or obtain within (30) thirty days if not already held.