Transplant Coordinator

About the role

How You Will Make An Impact At LifeNet Health, as the Transplant Coordinator, you will make an impact by leveraging your expertise, collaboration, and commitment to excellence to help advance our mission of Saving Lives, Restoring Health, and Giving Hope. Through your daily work, you will contribute to innovative solutions, operational excellence, and meaningful outcomes that support donors, patients, healthcare providers, and our communities. Whether driving strategic initiatives, improving processes, supporting customers, advancing research, developing talent, or ensuring quality and compliance, your contributions will help strengthen our ability to transform lives and shape the future of regenerative medicine.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates organ and tissue donor referrals for suitability in accordance with LNH, OPTN/UNOS, AOPO, CDC, and other regulatory guidelines, ensuring timely and efficient organ allocation and maximizing donor utilization.
• Conducts comprehensive donor assessments, including medical and social history review, hemodynamic evaluation, and physiological management to optimize organ function, while recognizing brain-death sequelae and identifying risk factors.
• Manages the full donation process by preserving organs and tissues to national standards, coordinating logistics and communication with transplant centers and hospital teams, supporting next-of-kin with sensitivity during donation decisions, and completing accurate and timely donor EMR documentation.
• Provides training and mentorship by modeling advanced clinical practice, guiding new staff in competencies, and demonstrating strong leadership, communication, ethical decision-making, and critical-thinking skills.

Requirements

• 2 years critical care experience in either Medical, Surgical Trauma, Thoracic Cardiovascular, Cardiac, Pediatric or ER
• 2 years clinical experience as a RN
• Valid Driver's License
• Valid RN License - Active and in good standing with the issuing state board of nursing. Must be maintained throughout tenure in position