Registered Nurse (RN), Transplant Coordinator, Heart, Full Time, First Shift

UC Health • Cincinnati, OH

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This Heart Transplant RN Coordinator is a hybrid clinical and regulatory role within a high-performing transplant program. In this position, the coordinator will manage patient care across the transplant continuum, including evaluation, waitlist management, transplant coordination, and post-transplant follow-up. The role partners closely with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless communication, patient education, and continuity of care for heart transplant candidates and recipients.

In addition to clinical responsibilities, this role plays a key part in supporting regulatory compliance and audit readiness, ensuring alignment with standards from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This includes maintaining accurate documentation, supporting process consistency, and contributing to ongoing quality and performance improvement efforts within the transplant program.

The RN Transplant Coordinator is a licensed professional nurse responsible for managing and coordinating all aspects of care for solid organ transplant patients and living donor candidates across the continuum—from referral and evaluation through waitlist management, inpatient care, surgery, and post-transplant/post-donation follow-up. The coordinator ensures patient-centered, regulatory-compliant, and efficient delivery of care by serving as a central liaison among patients, living donors, families, referring providers, and the multidisciplinary transplant team. Coordinators are assigned a focus area (Pre-Transplant, Waitlist, Post-Transplant, Inpatient, Outreach, or Living Donor) while maintaining accountability to the broader transplant program’s quality goals and compliance standards (UNOS/OPTN, CMS, Joint Commission, and institutional policies). This role supports high-quality, safe, and ethical care for both transplant recipients and living donor candidates.

Requirements

• Licensed professional nurse

Responsibilities

• Manage patient care across the transplant continuum, including evaluation, waitlist management, transplant coordination, and post-transplant follow-up.
• Partner closely with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless communication, patient education, and continuity of care for heart transplant candidates and recipients.
• Support regulatory compliance and audit readiness, ensuring alignment with standards from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, United Network for Organ Sharing, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Maintain accurate documentation.
• Support process consistency.
• Contribute to ongoing quality and performance improvement efforts within the transplant program.
• Manage and coordinate all aspects of care for solid organ transplant patients and living donor candidates across the continuum—from referral and evaluation through waitlist management, inpatient care, surgery, and post-transplant/post-donation follow-up.
• Ensure patient-centered, regulatory-compliant, and efficient delivery of care by serving as a central liaison among patients, living donors, families, referring providers, and the multidisciplinary transplant team.
• Maintain accountability to the broader transplant program’s quality goals and compliance standards (UNOS/OPTN, CMS, Joint Commission, and institutional policies).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed