Baystate Health, western Massachusetts’s premier healthcare provider, and home to Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence is looking for a full-time day shift Registered Nurse Transplant Coordinator to join our team!

At Baystate Health, RN means more. It stands for our deep respect for nursing professional practice that is essential to our mission. It also stands for Baystate’s many opportunities for growth and learning in the region’s only academic medical center and within our community hospitals, and it stands for our commitment to taking care of all those in the community who need us.

SCHEDULE:

• Full-time, day-shift
• Mon - Fri 8AM - 430PM
• Location: Baystate Medical Center Springfield

The transplant nurse coordinator, in collaboration with the transplant program and in-patient leadership, identifies learning needs and facilitates the provision of provider and nursing education, including outreach education to dialysis centers and nephrology offices.

Requirements

1) Partners with identified medical leaders to develop and implement expert clinical care delivery systems for a defined patient population or service.  Utilizes the nursing process to promote quality, safe and attentive patient care.

2) Demonstrates outstanding clinical and service delivery and utilizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and expert knowledge to identify and facilitate systems improvements with a strong focus on health promotion, risk reduction, and population-based health care.

3) Assumes leadership role in planning and implementing clinical initiatives and quality improvements that demonstrate effective positive progress in key performance metrics such as patient satisfaction, LOS, cost/case, and staff engagement or others as defined by program goals

4) Collaborates with inter-professional team members to enhance outcomes across the continuum of care by utilizing, critiquing, and/or conducting research to promote evidenced based practice, including publication in professional journals and poster abstracts/presentations.

5) Identifies high-risk patient care issues and trends and implements interventions to achieve optimal/benchmark quality outcomes.  Participates in program process improvement activities and is familiar with unit-based measurement data.  Works with the program to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of patient care.

6) Assumes leadership role in population-based clinical strategic planning and participates on key committees related to that planning.

7) Establishes collaborative relationships with regional providers (primary care, post-acute) and local community organizations to advance population health across the region.

8) Develops and provides clinical education to direct care, clinical staff, cross-continuum inter-professional team members as well as patients and families. 

9) Participates in community education and awareness campaigns to advance population-based health initiatives.

10) Knowledgeable about health care/payment reform and its impact on a given population.  Participates in creating novel delivery models to meet changing regulations and mandates.

11) Develops and/or utilizes appropriate teaching tools for recipients, families, and nursing colleagues.

12) Collaborates with nursing and physician leadership in establishing policies and procedures for the transplant program.

13) Maintains a high level of professional standards by participating in continuing education, professional organizations, and community outreach.

14) Delegates work appropriately and provide direction and guidance to nursing and support staff.  Demonstrates effective communication skills throughout the continuum of patient care.

15) Respects the values (religious/spiritual, ethnic, cultural) of the patient and family.

16) Documents relevant clinical issues in the patient’s medical records.

17) Adheres to required transplant regulations as put forward by OPTN and CMS

Required Experience

3 years of relevant nursing experience

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Employees hired prior to 1/1/23 are exempt from the Bach