Staff Nurse - Organ Transplant Center (100%)

**Sign-on incentive: Qualified candidates are eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $10,000**

Duties to include: 

• ·         Collaborates and integrates contributions of patients and families into multidisciplinary patient care plan

  ·         Implements nursing interventions according to department, division, and/or unit policies, procedures, and protocols to maintain safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff. Follows universal precautions

  ·         Implements emergency care procedures in potential or actual emergencies according to departmental policies, procedures, and protocols

  ·         Maintains skills/competency related to special equipment, medications, and procedures common to the patient population of the program

  ·         Assumes responsibility for care provided by self and other staff members under the nurse’s direction

  ·         Train to access central lines for clinic lab draws as needed

  ·         Educate and assist patients in clinic seen for vascular access procedures, including pre-and post-operative PD catheter placement, AV graft revisions, etc.

  ·         Assist with minor room procedures on transplant patients

  ·         Assist with peripheral lab draws and lab draws from IV's in clinic

  ·         Complete pre-operative education for non-hepatobiliary (HPB) and other non-living donor surgeries. Ex: hernia repairs, nephrectomies, feeding tube placement, etc. on pre- and post-transplant patients

  ·         Complete required PEC (Presurgical Evaluation Clinic) screening calls, including for living donors, pre-kidney living donor recipients, vascular access patients, HPB patients, other pre-surgical patients (nephrectomy, feeding tube, hernia repair, etc).

  ·         Complete pre-operative Infection Screening calls for all patients

  ·         Complete bladder scanning and catheterization as needed on patients in clinic

  ·         Assist in giving medications and immunizations in clinic as needed

  ·         Complete suture removal and wound care in clinic as needed

  ·         Complete and send FMLA paperwork for patients, including pre- and post- transplant recipients, HPB patients, vascular access patients, etc.

  ·         Assist with clinic patient check-in workflow as needed

  ·         Collaborate with transplant multidisciplinary team including medical assistants, transplant nurse coordinators, social workers, medical doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, and financial coordinators to provide excellent patient care

  ·         Appropriately document clinical care provided in clinic using Iowa Health Care, Department of Nursing, and Organ Transplant Center policies and procedures