Organ Placement Coordinator (RN)

Company: Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

DescriptionSHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time

Methodist Hospital - Specialty and Transplant
RN Organ Plancement Coordinator

Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment? Jump-start your career in our Renal Transplant Clinic department. Submit your application today!


Benefits:

We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and student loan repayment. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.
As a RN Organ Placement Coordinator you are responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the nursing care for patients suffering from chronic and end stage organ disease and potential transplant patients and live donors. You will coordinate care delivered by other members of the transplant team to affect positive outcomes for the patient.

What you will do in this role:

• You will assure the performance of necessary studies to determine a patient's candidacy.
• You will assume lead in directing responsibility of all patient and family education; you will act as the resource person regarding transplantation for all staff nurses.
• You will assist in the evaluation and selection of potential recipients and living donors.
• You will maintain appropriate monitoring of patients' status throughout work-up and while on the deceased donor organ transplant waiting list.
• You will coordinate comprehensive care with other team members and monitors live donor post donation for clinical/social/emotional issues and routine follow up visits; You will prepare patients for discharge and outpatient follow-up.
• You will communicate all patient post donations issues and concerns to other transplant team members and maintains communication with patients' referring physicians.
  
  QualificationsWhat Qualifications You Will Need:
  • You must be a graduate of a nursing program: diploma, associate degree, or baccalaureate program.
    • You have have at least 1 year RN experience and must meet ALL requirements of a RN
      • You must have a valid and current Texas License - Registered NurseMethodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant has been nationally recognized for its record setting kidney, liver and pancreas transplant programs. It is home to the Texas Transplant Institute and is the largest living donor kidney transplant program in the US. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing database, the center reached a major milestone in 2019 by performing 231 living donor kidney transplants in a single year setting a new national record - that's 65 more transplants than the second center on the list.In addition to transplant care, Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant is a full service hospital with over 260 beds that provides specialized services for liver cancer care, hepatobiliary surgery, emergency care, weight loss surgery, urology surgery, vascular surgery, inpatient rehabilitation, colorectal surgery and behavioral health care. Our surgical expertise extends to robotics, with four da Vinci surgical robots in use. It has been recognized as a Center of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Excellence from the American Society for Bariatric Surgery since 2008. Our Sexual Assault Response Team provides a compassionate environment for sexual assault survivors ages 13+, serving as a model for hospitals and agencies all over the world. Specialty and Transplant prides itself on providing the highest quality of patient care possible as proven by their five consecutive Grade A scores from the Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Grade survey. For more information, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant under Locations.Be a part of an organization that invests in you. We are actively reviewing applications. Qualified candidates will be promptly contacted by our hiring managers for interviews. Submit your application today and help us raise the bar in patient care!We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.NoticeOur Company's recruiters are here to help unlock the next possibility within your career and we take your candidate experience very seriously. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Gmail or Yahoo Mail. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by clicking here.For questions about your job application or this site please contact HCAhrAnswers at 1-844-422-5627 option 1.

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