Job Description

The Transplant Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of general program and patient care activities. The Transplant Coordinator establishes and promotes liaison relations with referring facilities and provides program information, patient follow up and education programs. The Transplant Coordinator serves as a consultant to AC staff as well as follow-up service providers and as a liaison to governmental and other regulatory agencies. The Transplant Coordinator maintains the necessary data bases relative to organ recipients, tissue typing, patient status, etc. Responsibilities include serving as a liaison between patients and their family members, transplant team, nursing and laboratory personnel and other support personnel; coordinating activities associated with evaluation for transplantation; being on call for solid organ or donor cell availability and responding to transplant calls within 20 minutes; coordinating procurement and care of the transplant patient pre and post transplant; assisting with long-term post transplant patient assessment and management in the clinics; making rounds on transplant service patients to observe patient progress, identify actual or potential problems and initiate problem solving actions; performing or assisting with patient procedures including venipuncture for laboratory studies or intravenous infusions, care and dressing of wounds; evaluating psychological response to both illness and medical/nursing interventions and providing support, comfort and encouragement to patient/family/significant other as indicated; responsible for pre-transplant testing and collaboration with applicable organ/cell matching organizations and participation in pertinent on-site inspections/audits; responsible for ongoing input and analysis of benchmarking data into appropriate national databases; coordinating and evaluating living donor workup/follow-ups; collaborating with team to provide patient/family education pre and post transplantation and in the planning, organizing and implementation of the orientation program for all personnel on the nursing units and team; conducting nursing research and collaborating in medical research programs; identifying and actively participating in quality improvement initiatives for the transplant program; maintaining data bases relevant to specialty areas and areas of investigation in collaboration with primary investigator; and performing other duties as assigned.

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