Transplant Nurse Outreach Coordinator

Transplant Nurse Outreach Coordinator

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 5 or more years of relevant transplant specific clinical experience
• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) – Single State – State Board of Nursing State of Kansas
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) – American Heart Association (AHA)

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ability to instruct and share knowledge all levels of nursing staff, providers, and collaborative healthcare partners, including dialysis center staff
• Demonstrate ability to educate transplant candidates, transplant recipients, living donors candidates, living donors and their respective care givers
• Plans, performs, and assesses transplant education programs for the community, including collaborative partners and transplant team.
• Identifies requirements for candidate evaluation. Act as a liaison between the referring healthcare partners and the multidisciplinary transplant team to facilitate referral and evaluation for potential transplant candidates
• Communicates candidate and/ or recipient status and care needs to referring and collaborative healthcare teams for continuity of care
• Demonstrates effective working relationships
• Models purposeful, direct, and effective communication with staff, peers, managers and administration.
• Is a professional resource to the community and is actively involved in community awareness activities
• Partners with other like agencies (such as the Pipeline/the ESRD Network, the NKF, Gift of Life, etc.) to promote health and advocate for organ donation and transplant
• Monitors clinical outcomes and system issues related to quality of care delivered thru external benchmarking monthly & on-demand
• Demonstrates proficiency and continual growth in the knowledge of transplantation, including regulatory requirements and best practices.
• Reviews and integrates into practice the current professional literature in the field of transplant.
• Attends practice-related conferences. Participates in professional transplant/procurement organizations.
• Demonstrates understanding and the ability to assume responsibility for individual judgments to achieve the highest quality of care for the transplant candidate, recipient, family and living donor.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master Degree Nursing
• Experience in customer service, outreach, and strategic analytical planning for program growth and development
• Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC) – American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC)