Transplant Coordinator (RN) - VAD

About the role

A dynamic professional clinician focused on population management with demonstrated capability to provide relationship-based care within a collaborative multidisciplinary team. This registered nurse utilizes advanced critical thinking to develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized plan of care that educates, empowers and optimizes patient outcomes throughout all transitions within the continuum of care. In addition, this position requires clinician provide afterhours/weekend coverage to serve as primary point of contact for pre and post-transplant patients and internal and referring providers.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes advanced critical thinking to develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized plan of care that educates, empowers and optimizes patient outcomes throughout all transitions within the continuum of care.
• Provides afterhours/weekend coverage to serve as primary point of contact for pre and post-transplant patients and internal and referring providers.
• Telephone assessment using strong clinical knowledge base, complex care coordination and treatment based on comprehensive assessment and strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Calls in patients for transplant, ensuring all multidisciplinary members of the transplant team are kept informed of clinical decisions and patient response to interventions in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited nursing program required.
• Experience: 2 years of relevant experience.
• Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.
• Relevant specialty board certification strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrates knowledge of and actively participates in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations.
• Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work.
• Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.

Skills

• Relationship Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Understands and educates patients/family/legal guardian as applicable about: Living donation options, Evaluation process, OPTN regulations, Organ allocation, Waiting phase, Transplant phase, Risks / benefits, including utilization of expanded donors, increased risk donors, if applicable, Post-operative phase including immunosuppressive therapy and effects, Potential research protocols of the transplant program, Candidate/family/legal guardian responsibility throughout the transplant process, Monitoring and regulation of immunosuppression regimens post-transplant.
• Addresses the availability and accessibility of specialized care required for transplant patients and families.
• Considers factors related to safety, efficacy, cost, and impact in the planning and delivery of care.
• Provides consultation and education to healthcare providers and the community.
• Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Has achieved and maintains national specialty certification. Maintains membership in an external professional healthcare organization. Maintain active involvement in professional organizations and Transplant specialty certification.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings
• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Certification and education support
• Generous Paid Time Off

Pay

$94,952.00 - $125,465.60 annually

Schedule

TBD