RN Transplant Coordinator, Jewish Hospital, Heart and Lung Pre-Transplant

About the role

• Primary Location: JHHS - Jewish Hospital - UMC
• Address: 200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202
• Shift: Salary Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary

UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with eight hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and more than 1,000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana. Additional access to UofL Health is provided through a partnership with Carroll County Memorial Hospital.

With more than 13,000 team members - physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly-skilled health care professionals, UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.

About the role

Responsible for the coordination of the care and management of the referrals into advanced organ disease programs and pre-transplant candidate. This includes the initiation and completion of the evaluation, coordination, and timing of testing to determine candidacy for transplant or advanced therapies. Must be able to function with considerable independence in the management of the referrals and pre-transplant patient.

Responsible for promoting the health and safety by ensuring the ongoing communication and collaboration providers and other multidisciplinary team members.

• Coordinates referrals and follow-up evaluation of each patient. Collaborates with the multidisciplinary to assure appropriate evaluation per protocol and policies.
• Is educated and understands general management protocols for organ specific evaluation.
• Schedule laboratory tests, X rays, biopsy, etc. according to the established protocols. Monitors laboratory results for each patient and knows normal values for the labs, follows patient trends. If abnormal result or trend noted, coordinator responds per protocol or notifies transplant provider of abnormalities and coordinators follow up as directed.
• Promptly notifies patient (and consultants and other treaters) when patient care issue noted
• Phone triage of patient calls and MD calls with ongoing education to patients, shares information regarding protocols and general knowledge with PCP's or other community treaters.
• Communicates with other team members problems that are occurring so that continuity of care is maintained.
• Communicates the results of lab tests and biopsies to the patient and their families.
• Communicates on an ongoing basis with patients.
• Documents in Transplant Data Base and appropriate hospital and clinic EMR's conversations with patient, uses To-Do function.
• Works with multidisciplinary team members in assuring that the psychosocial and financial needs of the patient are being addressed.

Maintains accurate and current data base on each patient recording all laboratory, diagnostic tests, biopsy results and changes in medications.

• Staffs the outpatient transplant clinic.
• Schedules all clinic visits according to established protocols and the needs of the patients.
• Staffs the outpatient transplant clinic with providers and other members of multidisciplinary team, prepares nursing assessment, prepares appropriate documents and reports for clinic and documents clearly each encounter when patient seen in clinic (changes to medications, procedures to be scheduled for follow up on, laboratory schedules changes, etc.).
• Discuss findings with the transplant provider and appropriate members of multidisciplinary team and carries out the follow-up that is indicated.
• Maintain compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct.
• Active involvement in program specific quality and selection meetings, protocol development, and educational programs for community, patients, and staff.
• Other duties as assigned, including but not limited to cross coverage training.

Required Qualifications

• Licensed or eligible for license in Kentucky
• Basic Life Support (BLS) accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Associate's degree from accredited college or University
• Four years of experience in a clinical setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from accredited college or University

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Pay & Benefits Options
• Paid Vacation, Sick days, and Holidays
• Free tuition to UofL for Part- and Full-time employees for Child/Spouse/Domestic Partner
• 401K with Employer Match