Clinical Transplant Coordinator, MTI, Kidney Acquisition, Full Time, Days

Jackson Health•Miami, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Transplant Coordinator is a professional member of the transplant health care team responsible for coordinating clinical care. The coordinator works with patients and families from transplant evaluation through and after transplantation, helping facilitate access to and continuity of care with compassion and tact. The role also coordinates with physicians, surgeons, nurses, social workers, financial coordinators, and administrative staff. The coordinator works independently and seeks support or direction as needed, and provides care appropriate to patients’ ages, developmental stages, and individual needs. The position is in the Miami Transplant Institute’s Kidney Acquisition department in Miami, Florida. The schedule is full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The institute performs a broad range of organ transplants and provides care to both children and adults. Responsibilities span candidate and living-donor evaluation, inpatient transplant or donation care, and post-transplant or post-donation follow-up. The coordinator supports patient and donor education, monitoring, clinical coordination, quality improvement, and compliance with applicable transplant program requirements. The role may also involve organ procurement coordination, clinical research, and professional and public education.

Requirements

Generally 3 to 5 years of related experience.
Associate’s degree in Nursing.
Valid Florida RN license.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and any additional applicable life-support certification for Healthcare Providers upon hire, with at least six months’ validity; certifications must be maintained during employment.
Meet and maintain current unit-specific and organizational competencies, certifications, and licensures required by regulation or nursing standards of practice.
Ability to analyze, organize, and prioritize work accurately while meeting multiple deadlines.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure, understand and follow instructions, and exercise sound independent judgment.
Knowledge and skill in using job-appropriate technology and software applications.
Ability to understand, respect, and accommodate patients’ preferences, beliefs, customs, and practices; communicate clearly with doctors, nurses, patients, and families; and demonstrate compassion, patience, and a nonjudgmental approach.
Clinical knowledge, skill, and ability to complete all required unit competencies.
Knowledge of business and management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, human-resources modeling, leadership, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Skill in monitoring and assessing performance, applying logic and reasoning to evaluate alternatives, and identifying when corrective action or improvement is needed.
Ability to plan, implement, and evaluate programs; establish goals and objectives; and recognize, analyze, and solve problems.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify absolute and relative contraindications to transplantation or donation.
Interpret abnormal diagnostic and laboratory testing for pre-transplant patients and living donors, and maintain program criteria and protocols for transplant candidacy and living donation.
Educate patients, living donors, and families; assist with evaluation and selection; review informed-consent information and confirm understanding.
Monitor patients during evaluation and while on the deceased-donor waiting list or pending donation; manage listing and waitlist processes in accordance with applicable requirements.
Maintain follow-up and monitoring for large patient loads, including clinic management, laboratory orders, diagnostic testing, communications, and paperwork.
Participate in multidisciplinary selection committee meetings and provide clinical coordination feedback during multidisciplinary discussions.
Lead patient, donor, and family education during the inpatient phase; communicate with referring physicians and serve as a transplant and living-donation resource for nursing staff.
Act as liaison among patients, donors, families, and health care team members; prepare patients and living donors for discharge and outpatient follow-up; participate in daily rounds.
Manage post-transplant medication and immunosuppression-related follow-up, monitor diagnostic studies and health status, triage urgent concerns, and communicate issues to transplant physicians.
Identify symptoms and concerns related to long-term immunosuppression, PTLD, infections, transplant complications, and complications of living donation.
Coordinate post-transplant and post-donation follow-up, including medication refills, laboratory orders, diagnostic testing, prior authorizations, paperwork, and care with other team members.
Monitor for postoperative complications after living donation; educate donors and families about post-donation care and the importance of follow-up with the transplant team.
Conduct or support clinical research studies, public and professional education, and completion of data required by UNOS, as assigned.
When involved in organ procurement, take organ-offer calls, dispatch the procurement team, and arrange hospital admission for potential organ recipients.
Attend educational webinars, quality meetings, patient and living-donor selection committee meetings, and other program meetings as indicated.
Assist with specialty quality metrics, serve on a process-improvement team, participate in at least one performance-improvement project during the calendar year, and follow up on project outcomes.
Participate in professional organizations and maintain active membership in NATCO and other related organizations as required.
Contribute to development of the Multi-Organ Transplant Center and its operations-improvement and patient-quality plans; participate in relevant committees and identify, report, and resolve quality issues according to institute protocol.
Actively pursue and maintain CCTC certification within three years of hire.
Follow unit-specific policies and procedures, maintain required competencies, use required job- and unit-specific equipment, and perform other related duties as assigned.