Registered Nurse (RN) – Organ Transplant Coordinator

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Transplant Coordinator – RN. 

We are home to New Hampshire’s only transplant center, offering kidney transplant services to children and adults. Our first transplant was performed in 1992 and during the past 30 years we have performed over 1000 transplants.

In coordination with transplant physicians and surgeons, the Transplant Coordinator – RN provides care to transplant recipients and live donors throughout all phases of transplantation or donation including evaluation, pre-transplant/donation, the transplant/donation surgery and post-transplant/donation. Serves as the primary contact for patients; provides ongoing education to the patient, monitors the patient status throughout the process and coordinates care with all members of the transplant team. Ensures that the responsibilities associated with the role coordinator are carried out in a manner that meets all regulatory requirements for a transplant program. 

This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position. 

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000.
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular “earned time” plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock’s Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing. education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the “Upper Valley” of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

Read more about Dartmouth Health and why YOU should work here.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry, and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth Health Children’s; 4 member hospitals, and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

Please visit:  https://dhnursing.org/nursing-careers/

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities

1. Evaluates appropriate candidates for solid organ transplantation. In cooperation with the transplant physicians and surgeons, initiates diagnostic testing and appropriate medical consultation. Obtains and monitors dietary, social work, and financial service evaluations.
2. Develops, and maintains on-going involvement with patient, living related donor, and family before, during and after transplantation therapy.
3. Facilitates living related donor work-up. Coordinates the evaluation process, collates and distributes laboratory data, coordinates social, dietary, and medical services, and initiates and screens appropriate candidates for referral to the transplant team.
4. Maintains a list of all patients awaiting cadaver organ donation.
5. Reviews, updates, and reports changes on medical status of patients with the transplant team weekly.
6. Communicates with members of the transplant team, referring nephrologists and physicians and dialysis personnel to facilitate the initial treatment evaluation. Ensures continuity of post-operative care of transplant recipients
7. Develops and maintains teaching tools for patients, donors, families and MHMH nursing personnel.
8. Ensures program/patient compliance with UNOS, HCFA, and NEOB and Medicare.
9. Performs the following inpatient post-transplant functions: Assesses/reinforces education with patient and family, assists in preparation for patient discharge, maintains detailed data surrounding transplant patients, serves as consultant/resource for the nursing staff in the development of a nursing care plan for each patient, reinforces treatment protocols through staff education and evaluation of appropriateness of processes, participates in daily transplant patient rounds, and educates patients concerning discharge medications.
10. Performs the following outpatient post-transplant functions: Assesses health status through interviewing, physical examination, and medical record review. Assesses patient knowledge and compliance of medical regime, updating pharmacies and renewing medications, coordinates necessary follow-up testing and visits. Reviews, analyzes and presents data, collaborates and coordinates treatment decisions with appropriate staff, monitors status changes in patient condition and report to surgeon and medical director, reviews charts/test results and maintains transplant flow chart surrounding transplant patients, reinforces protocol of treatments/research studies, coordinating as appropriate, directs efforts to assure compliance with the data reporting necessary for regulatory agencies and national data collection institutes (UNOS, HCFA, Medicare, and NEOB), coordinates and/or performs treatment procedures under the direction of the transplant physicians and surgeons, and communicates with primary care physician and referring nephrologists.
11. Assists with the education of nursing staff in the areas of normal renal function, transplant and renal donation with emphasis on identifying nursing problems. Acts as preceptor to nursing students and staff to develop their expertise in the area of renal transplant nursing.
12. Participates in the development of both internal and external educational programs related organ transplantation involving outside dialysis centers, hospitals and other referral groups.
13. Participates in the development and updating of policies and procedures for the Kidney Transplant Program.
14. Performs data collection functions.
15. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) with 3 years of clinical experience required.
• 2 years of nephrology nursing experience preferred.
• Demonstrated clinical competence in the area of organ transplantation.

Required Licensure/Certifications

Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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