LOCATION: Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
SPECIALTY/DEPARTMENT: Post Lung Transplant
SHIFT/SCHEDULE: Full-time days, Monday-Friday: can be five 8-hour days; four 9-hour days with one day off every other week; or four 10-hour days
There is a rotating on-call among the team.

ABOUT US

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values are:

• We serve faithfully by doing what’s right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

JOB SUMMARY

As a Transplant Coordinator RN, utilize a nursing model for quality patient care. Assess patient needs and create personalized care plans. Watch how patients respond to personalized care. Ensure patients have smooth transitions through healthcare. Prevent complications or delays by understanding needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Associate’s degree level.
• (2) Two years of professional experience
• An (RN) Registered Nurse License.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) skills required or obtain within (30) thirty days if not already held.

• Assessing transplant eligibility for patients involves interviewing them and their families.
• You will coordinate tests for transplant candidates, identify issues in results, and arrange necessary care. You’ll work closely with patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers during this time.
• Manage recipient’s post-transplant care.
• Arrange admissions, lab tests, clinic visits.
• Coordinate with referring, primary care. Understand test results, identify irregularities.
• Set up needed care as directed.
• Teaching candidates, families, caregivers about evaluation, organ allocation, waiting, post-operative, immunosuppression effects, complications, and psychological impact of transplant.
• Using insurance knowledge to help with post-transplant prescriptions. Assisting patients with coverage issues.
• Maintaining long-term prescriptions.
• Complying with various regulatory policies and maintaining records on the transplant waitlist through different online programs.
• Coordinating recipient transplants includes using the donor website and communicating with potential recipients. Assessing their health status and notifying hospital departments are important tasks. Updates are also sent to the team.