Registered Nurse Transplant Coordinator – Heart Transplant

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Organization:

Heart Transplant Program

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Facilitates and coordinates the evaluation of potential transplant and/or living donor candidates. Assists with coordination of care and discharge process for recipients hospitalized for transplantation and living donation and post-operative complications. Provides clinical management transplant recipients and/or living donors, who are followed as outpatients, in collaboration with the transplant team (attending physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical transplant pharmacists, social workers).

This program is #2 in the nation for heart transplant volumes. The person selected for this position will have an autonomous work environment with great team collaboration.

In addition, the person selected will perform but is not limited to the following:

- Pre-transplant Coordinator: responsible for coordination of care for the patient during the referral, evaluation and listing phases of care. This includes education with patients and caregivers on their upcoming evaluation and potential surgery. Monitors the patient's evaluation tests, lab work, and appointments and provides pertinent instructions. This role includes management of the patient while they are on the waitlist and caring for their cardiac needs until they receive a transplant.

Preferred Education, Skills, and Experiences:
- 2+ years of nursing experience.
- Transplant or cardiology nursing experience is a plus

Hours:
This is a Full-Time position. DAYS. Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. This is a hybrid position after the candidate selected is fully trained. Training will occur in the Nashville office for the first several weeks (approximately eight weeks or thereabouts).

Department Summary:
Vanderbilt Health is a leading provider of organ transplantation in the United States, giving hundreds of people new hope and longer life each year. For more than six decades, the Vanderbilt team has been committed to providing lifesaving transplants to people from all over the world. As Tennessee’s only full-service transplant center, we offer the most advanced care for end-stage organ failure in children and adults. Our transplant specialists also perform lifesaving dual-organ transplants, including heart-kidney, heart-liver, heart-lung, kidney-pancreas and liver-kidney.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Coordinates the evaluation process of potential transplant candidates and/or living donors in collaboration with physicians and other health care professionals. • Educates patients and families about the transplant process, evaluation and waiting phases, and long-term follow-up and care, as well as, living donation when applicable. • Monitors patient progress and provides clinical management during post-transplantation and post living donation. • Ensures the most current practices of transplantation nursing are utilized, and providing system improvements to support optimal transplant outcomes. • Ensures referring physician is kept informed about all phases of the transplant process. • The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned. TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES • Transplant Coordination (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery of transplant coordination in practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering coordination services without requiring support and instruction from others. Possess sufficient knowledge to provide interventions that maintain or improve physiology, psychological and social health and interventions that facilitate and optimize behavioral changes and treatment adherence with complex, lifelong therapies. Advocates supporting patients and families in planning, implementation and evaluation of care. Able to train and educate by s