Therapeutic Aphereis Practice

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000170026
Category: Nursing
Status: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services
Department: Lab - Blood Mgmt. - NB

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Registered nurse with New Jersey licensure.
• Phlebotomy or IV certification. Current
• CPR certification.
• Minimum 3 years R.N. licensure

Preferred:

• Apheresis and/or automated medical instrumentation expertise desirable
• Background in whole blood separation techniques helpful

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS:

• Full Time
• Day Shift

• Determines the suitability of whole blood and apheresis blood component donors and patients according to established standards,
• Collection of HPCs-Stem Cells including immune effector cells, and therapeutic products from suitable donors and patients using automated and non-automated procedures,
• Performs clinical apheresis and photopheresis procedures,
• Possesses knowledge of blood collection theory and practice in order to diagnose, educate and treat donor, patient, and responses to actual or potential problems,
• Provide medical screening of stem cell donors and patients,
• Handles patient and blood donor reactions