Registered Nurse – Ambulatory Blood and Marrow Transplant Coordinator – Cancer Center
| Company | The University of Kansas Hospital |
|---|---|
| Location | Kansas City, MO, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Associate’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- High School Graduate
- Associate Degree Nursing
- Bachelor Degree Nursing within five years of hire/transfer.
- 2 or more years acute clinical experience.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate knowledge and ability to facilitate living donation/transplantation, and will utilize that knowledge to coordinate the care of the living donor for evaluation and live organ donation.
- Demonstrates knowledge and ability to coordinate the care of the transplant recipient in the outpatient setting to achieve optimal physical, social and emotional rehabilitation.
- Demonstrates knowledge and the ability to monitor and coordinate care of the candidate awaiting organ transplantation.
- Demonstrates proficiency and continual growth in the knowledge of transplantation.
- Demonstrates understanding and ability to facilitate/coordinate evaluation and OPTN/UNOS listing of potential transplant candidate.
- Demonstrates understanding of post-transplant management including medications, complications, interventions and discharge planning in the coordination of recipient care.
- Educates candidate/family/legal guardian about living donation options, evaluation process, OPTN regulations, organ allocation, waiting phase, transplant process, risks/benefits, including utilization of expanded donors, high-risk donors, if applicable, post-operative phase including immunosuppressive therapy and effects, potential research protocols of the transplant program, candidate/family/legal guardian responsibility throughout the transplant process.
- Exhibits knowledge and ability to facilitate transplant process when organ becomes available to transplant candidate.
- Identifies and responds to the psychosocial and economic needs of the transplant candidate/family/legal guardian during evaluation.
- Interprets serological results of the potential transplant candidate and their implications for transplant.
Preferred Qualifications
- Must have current active multistate state Register Nurse (RN) license in good standing in state in which you live OR active single state RN license in good standing in the state you will be working with proof of application of a multistate RN license in the state in which you live.