Organ Transplant Nurse Coordinator- Heart

About the position

The Heart Organ Transplant Nurse Coordinator plans, directs, and provides specialized nursing care with the primary emphasis on the treatment of individuals with end stage organ disease that are designated to have a solid organ transplant. Provides continuity and coordination of patient care; conducts patient and professional education initiatives; collaborative relationship with multidisciplinary teams, community resources and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge and ability to facilitate living donation/transplantation, and will utilize that knowledge to coordinate the care of the living donor for evaluation and live organ donation.
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to coordinate the care of the transplant recipient in the outpatient setting to achieve optimal physical, social and emotional rehabilitation.
• Demonstrates knowledge and the ability to monitor and coordinate care of the candidate awaiting organ transplantation.
• Demonstrates proficiency and continual growth in the knowledge of transplantation.
• Demonstrates understanding and ability to facilitate/coordinate evaluation and OPTN/UNOS listing of potential transplant candidate.
• Demonstrates understanding of post-transplant management including medications, complications, interventions and discharge planning in the coordination of recipient care.
• Educates candidate/family/legal guardian about living donation options, evaluation process, OPTN regulations, organ allocation, waiting phase, transplant process, risks/benefits.
• Exhibits knowledge and ability to facilitate transplant process when organ becomes available to transplant candidate.
• Identifies and responds to the psychosocial and economic needs of the transplant candidate/family/legal guardian during evaluation.
• Interprets serological results of the potential transplant candidate and their implications for transplant.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Associate Degree Nursing
• Bachelor Degree Nursing within five years of hire/transfer.
• 2 or more years acute clinical experience.
• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Multi-State - State Board of Nursing Registered Nurse in State of Kansas
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) or obtained within 14 days

Nice-to-haves

• Must have current active multistate state Register Nurse (RN) license in good standing in state in which you live OR active single state RN license in good standing in the state you will be working with proof of application of a multistate RN license in the state in which you live.
• Staff hired prior to 2/1/2024 are required to obtain a multistate state RN license from the state in which they live at the time of their next RN license renewal by 3/31/2026.