Clinical Transplant Coordinator, On Call​/Pool

Miami, FL On Call/Pool Heart Acquisition

The Clinical Transplant Coordinator is a professional designated member of the transplant health care team who will be assigned primary responsibility for coordinating clinical aspects of care. The coordinator will work with patients and their families beginning with the evaluation for transplantation and continue through and after transplantation, in a compassionate and tactful manner in order to facilitate access to and provide continuity of care.

The coordinator will also work with other members of the transplant team, including physicians, surgeons, nurses, social workers, financial coordinators, and administrative personnel at the transplant program. The Clinical Transplant Coordinator performs independently and seeks support/direction as needed. The Clinical Transplant Coordinator must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of their patients;

demonstrate knowledge of growth and development; assess data reflective of patient's status; and identify each patients requirements relative to age specific needs.

• Candidate/Living Donor Phase
• Identifies absolute and relative contraindications to transplantation/donation.
• Knowledge of abnormal diagnostic and laboratory testing in pre-transplant patient/living donor population and ability to interrupt results and maintain program criteria protocols for inclusion for transplant candidacy/living donation.
• Participates in both patient/living donor, and family education.
• Assist in the evaluation and selection of transplant candidates/potential living donors.
• Assist transplant candidates/living donors with reviewing informed consent information/education and confirm patient understanding.
• Maintains appropriate monitoring of patients' status throughout evaluation and while on the deceased donor organ transplant waiting list/pending donation;
• Knowledge of UNOS and CMS regulations for pre transplant evaluation/living donation.
• Communications, listing and waitlist maintenance/management
• Knowledge of listing criteria for specific organs, upgrades, appeals and extensions/knowledge of donor selection criteria.
• Knowledge of UNOS/CMS policy related to transplant candidacy, organ procurement agencies, types of organs offer, recipient and donor matching and communication to facilities to accomplish transplant goal/knowledge of all policies and by paws related to living donation
• Knowledge of hepatitis and HIV co infection protocols and impact on candidacy requirements and Knowledge and experience in the special needs of children being evaluated for transplant
• Ability to maintain follow up and monitoring of large patient load (450-500 patients), clinic management, laboratory orders, diagnostic testing, communication and paperwork
• Participates in multidisciplinary selection committee meeting.
• Transplant/Donation Inpatient Phase:
  Assumes lead in directing responsibility of all patients, donor and family education
• Maintains communication with patients' referring physicians
• Contributes to the education and acts as the resource person regarding transplantation and living donation for all staff nurses.
• Acts as liaison between patients, donors, families, and other health care team members
• Prepares patients and living donors for discharge and outpatient follow-up
• Member of multidisciplinary team;
  Daily rounds with team on all patients.

• Knowledge of immunosuppression management and protocol adjustment of medications related to specific transplant type, co‑morbid factors and time from transplant;
• Experience of emergency triage of post‑transplant patients/living donors over the phone to assess and evaluate care needs and course of action needed;
• Monitors and follows all diagnostic studies;
• Evaluates patient health status on a regular basis;
• Communicates all patient/living donor issues and concerns to appropriate transplant physicians;
• Ability to identify symptoms and issues related to long term immunosuppression, PTLD, infections, and complications of living donation.
• Knowledge of monitoring and assessment of post‑transplant patients with co infection…