Pre Kidney Waitlist Transplant Coordinator, 40 hours, Days

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Boston, MA

3d•$79,269 - $204,318

About The Position

The transplant nurse coordinator provides nursing care, education, and support to organ donors and transplant candidates, patients on the pre-transplant waiting list, and post-transplant patients in the hospital and community. The role works under the general direction of the Chair, Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Diseases, the Administrative Director, and the Associate Chief, Ambulatory Nursing Practice, and follows the Lahey Clinic Professional Practice Model, Massachusetts Nurse Practice Act, and ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. The coordinator collaborates with multidisciplinary health care professionals and community partners; assesses patients in clinic; participates in developing treatment plans; provides telephone triage; and educates patients, families, and nursing colleagues. For the assigned waitlisted population, the coordinator tracks readiness and outstanding requirements, coordinates reassessments and testing, monitors clinical changes, and manages authorized listing-status actions and related communications and documentation. The position requires a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, an unrestricted Massachusetts RN license, current BLS certification, and two years of transplant-related nursing experience. The coordinator must obtain CCTC certification within one year of meeting ABTC eligibility requirements. This is a 40-hour-per-week day position. The stated annual base salary range is $79,268.80–$204,318.40.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from an accredited school of professional nursing.
Current, unrestricted Massachusetts Registered Nurse (RN) license.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Two years of transplant-related nursing experience.
Obtain Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC) certification within one year of meeting eligibility requirements established by the American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC).
Effective interpersonal, communication, and documentation skills.
Ability to problem solve and think critically.
Ability to motivate, plan, organize, and direct individuals and groups.
Attention to detail.
Ability to organize and work in a multitask environment.
Computer skills, including database and word-processing skills.
Clinical skills and technical knowledge to provide patient care according to nursing policies and procedures and unit-specific competencies.
Ability to cross-train to other clinical areas.

Responsibilities

Manage an assigned population of active and inactive waitlisted patients using an organized tracking system and individualized follow-up plans.
Coordinate periodic reassessments, laboratory testing, diagnostic studies, specialty consultations, and transplant clinic visits; track outstanding requirements and escalate delays that may affect eligibility or readiness.
Review inactive patients, identify barriers to reactivation, and coordinate completion of approved plans.
Confirm that patient contact information, caregiver support, transportation arrangements, and readiness for transplant admission remain current.
Assess reported symptoms, hospitalizations, emergency visits, infections, procedures, medication changes, and functional-status changes; communicate concerns affecting candidacy to transplant providers.
Review clinical results within nursing scope and follow established escalation pathways for abnormal findings.
Coordinate care with referring providers, dialysis facilities when applicable, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, community partners, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
Provide nursing advice and implement provider orders and approved protocols within RN scope of practice.
Coordinate the transition from transplant approval to waitlist management and confirm required documentation and listing prerequisites.
Enter and verify candidate information in designated transplant systems; implement and document authorized listing, activation, inactivation, reactivation, and removal actions.
Communicate waitlist-status changes, reasons, and next steps to patients, caregivers, and providers; track patient notifications and maintain consistent records across systems.
Coordinate organ-specific laboratory updates, candidate data updates, and exception-related documentation as assigned.
Use the nursing process to promote quality patient care and maintain therapeutic relationships and continuing involvement with patients.
Develop teaching tools for transplant candidates, recipients, living donors, families, social supports, and nursing colleagues.
Act as a nursing consultant on evidence-based transplantation practice and participate in education for inpatient nursing colleagues about organ function, transplantation, organ donation, and nursing problems.
Participate in nursing service and hospital committees, conduct nursing research, and prepare articles for professional journals.
Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team on treatment decisions and with nursing and physician leadership on transplant-program policies and procedures.
Participate in unit quality-improvement activities and maintain familiarity with unit-based metrics.
Maintain professional standards through continuing education, professional organizations, and community outreach; achieve and maintain CCTC certification according to organizational or departmental standards.
Protect confidential staff and patient information in accordance with department and institutional policy.
Delegate work appropriately and provide direction and guidance to nursing and support staff.
Document relevant clinical issues in transplant databases, inpatient and outpatient medical records, and other required regulatory database systems.
Collaborate with pharmacy, social work, nutrition, radiology, physical therapy, laboratory, case management, and other care-team members to support continuity of care and address barriers to transplantation.