Registered Nurse - Transplant

Location: Winston Salem, NC

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 3 months
• Pay Rate: $45.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: 8-Hour Days;
  Monday Friday, 08:00 16:30
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This is a Transplant Coordinator role within a Cellular Therapy Clinic, supporting peripheral blood transplant and cellular therapy programs. Transplant Coordinators follow patient cases from candidate identification through workup/evaluation, cell harvest, and cellular therapy infusion or cell transplant. The patients are in different phases of this process, and a coordinator could have an assignment of 8 patients at one time. Coordinators meet with patients several times and schedule all their appointments according to a required timeline there is not a daily census or visits per day in the traditional sense.

Coordinators attend meetings with doctors and other staff throughout the week and must be organized and able to work autonomously. Patient diagnoses include hematologic malignancies.

• Coordinate all patient care needs before, during, and after transplantation
• Follow patient cases from candidate identification through workup/evaluation, cell harvest, and cellular therapy infusion or cell transplant
• Schedule all patient appointments according to required timelines and track pre- and post-transplant testing
• Conduct pre-transplant evaluation and assessment of candidates
• Interpret lab results and diagnostic tests related to transplant
• Review medical history of potential/actual donors
• Monitor vital signs, weight, fluid balance, and graft function
• Review and interpret relevant diagnostic and laboratory data
• Attend meetings with doctors and other staff throughout the week
• Manage a patient case assignment of up to 8 patients at one time across different phases of the transplant process
• Uphold Patient Confidentiality/HIPAA standards
• Provide Patient/Family Education
• Apply transplant center protocols and collaborate with transplant team
• Support understanding of post-transplant health maintenance and long-term care
• Apply universal precautions
• Maintain knowledge of waitlist criteria

• Hematology/oncology experience REQUIRED (MUST HAVE)
• Work Setting:
  Acute Hospital & Outpatient Clinic experience required
• Pre-transplant evaluation and assessment
• Interpretation of lab results and diagnostic tests related to transplant
• Review of medical history of potential/actual donors
• Monitoring of vital signs, weight, fluid balance, and graft function
• Review and interpretation of relevant diagnostic and laboratory data
• Patient Confidentiality/HIPAA
• Patient/Family Education
• Scheduling and tracking of pre- and post-transplant testing
• Transplant center protocols
• Transplant team collaboration
• Understanding of post-transplant health maintenance and long-term care
• Universal precautions
• Waitlist criteria

• Navigator/case manager experience
• Pre-Transplant/Candidates
  
  Skills:
  
  Absolute contraindications to transplant
• Assists with organ offers, acceptance, and recipient preparation
• Organ allocation process
• Relative contraindications to transplant
• Post-Transplant/Recipients
  
  Skills:
  
  Coordinates post-transplant care with team
• Monitors post-transplant patient progress
• Offers psychosocial support and education on lifestyle adjustments to patient and family
• Teaches medication adherence and post-op care plans
• Clinical Assessment:
  Familiarity with organ-specific diseases (e.g., ESRD, cirrhosis, heart failure)
• Identifies signs/symptoms of transplant complications (infection, rejection, etc.)
• Performs comprehensive physical and psychosocial assessments
• Recognition and management of transplant complications (infection, rejection, etc.)
• Medication Administration:
  Coordinates medication adjustments post-transplant with provider
• Reviews pre-transplant medication regimens for contraindications
• Teaches medication adherence and self-administration
• Understanding of pharmacology relevant to transplant patients
• Regulatory & Administrative Compliance:
  Tracks patient outcomes and reports per regulatory standards
• Professional Knowledge:
  Assisting with scheduling of the OR

• BLS certification required
• Chemo certification (ONS/ONCC) preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience required

• Minimum 2 years of RN experience required
• Hematology/oncology experience required

• Navigator/case manager experience preferred

• Work setting:
  Acute Hospital & Outpatient Clinic
• Unit systems in use:
  Pyxis, EPIC
• Scheduling type:
  Per the Clinic Needs
• Unit orientation: 40 hours basic; ongoing throughout assignment
• Scrubs:
  Not provided
• Call requirement:
  None
• Float requirement:
  None
• Weekend requirement:
  None
• Daily census could be 8 patients; visits could be approximately 20 if counting all interactions with all…