Heart Transplant Coordinator

Heart Transplant Coordinator

Requirements

• Bachelor’s: RN with BS degree
• Minimum of 3yrs clinical nursing experience
• Medical/Surgical and/or ICU experience strongly preferred
• Heart/VAD: Minimum 1 year prior clinical experience as a cardiovascular, transplant, or LVAD coordinator or minimum 1 year prior LVAD and transplant experience as an ICU nurse
• Kidney: Medsurg, ICU, Dialysis and/or Transplant experience required
• Liver: Medsurg, ICU, Dialysis and/or Transplant experience required
• Hepatology: 3 years RN experience (Medsurg, Hepatology, ICU preferred)
• Neuro GI: 3 years RN experience (Medsurg, GI Lab, ICU preferred)
• Inpatient: Transplant experience required (Medsurg, ICU preferred)
• Proficient Writing & Computer Skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating all aspects of the pre and post-transplant and disease management patients
• Patient medical management
• Immediate pre-operative assessment/management
• Post-operative assessment/management
• Discharge planning
• Participating in providing educational programs regarding transplantation to hospitals, medical specialty units, patient groups and the bay community throughout Northern California.

Preferred Qualifications

• Medical/Surgical and/or ICU experience strongly preferred
• 1 year prior clinical experience as a cardiovascular, transplant, or LVAD coordinator or minimum 1 year prior LVAD and transplant experience as an ICU nurse preferred
• Medsurg, ICU, Dialysis and/or Transplant experience preferred for Kidney and Liver programs
• 3 years RN experience (Medsurg, Hepatology, ICU preferred) for Hepatology
• 3 years RN experience (Medsurg, GI Lab, ICU preferred) for Neuro GI
• Medsurg, ICU preferred for Inpatient services