Registered Nurse - Abdominal OnCall Transplant Coordinator

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Posted: 11-Apr-24

Location: Los Angeles, California

Salary: Open

Categories:

Academic/Faculty

Internal Number: 1708

Job Description

Are you ready to bring your clinical skills to a world-class facility recognized as top ten in the United States for transplant services? Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient satisfaction? Then please respond to this dynamic opportunity available with one of the best places to work in Southern California! We would be happy to hear from you.

With world-class surgical and medical proficiency in lung, heart, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center is one of the most successful facilities of its kind. Here, patients find a compassionate environment and hope for a longer, healthier life.

As a Kidney Transplant Coordinator you will be responsible for the planning and coordination of all aspects of care for patients throughout the continuum of transplant services. The Transplant Coordinator will oversee donor offers and coordinate with all interdisciplinary services to determine viability.

Summary of Essential Duties:

• Serves as the on-call coordinator for the interdisciplinary team, including: physicians, nurses, social workers, dietitians, pharmacists, financial analysts, case managers, and support staff.
• Communicates with the Organ Procurement Organizations, exhibits knowledge and ability to facilitate the transplant process when organ becomes available to the transplant candidate.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill in managing donor and transplant recipient care
• Responds to patient calls and clinical concerns and appropriately documents in patient???s medical record.
• Collects/documents data to meet clinical, regulatory (OPTN/UNOS/MCS), financial requirements
• Participates in the development and implementation of practice guidelines, protocols, pathways, performance improvement and research activities.
• Develops, coordinates, implements, and evaluates educational programs/projects for patients, personnel, and the community. Represents the Medical Center at regional and national meetings/conferences.

This is a 24-hour on-call position. You can expect to be scheduled to work seven or eight 24-hour days each month. A six-week schedule would consist of 3/24-hour shifts in a pay period with a rotating 4th 24-hour shift every 3rd pay period.

Qualifications

Education:

• BSN (Bachelor of Science, Nursing) required

License/Certifications:

• Current, unrestricted California RN license required
• BLS from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required
• CCTN specialty certification required

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of nursing experience in acute care setting required
• Organ transplantation experience preferred
• At least 1 year of ICU experience required

Req ID : 1708
Working Title : Registered Nurse - Abdominal OnCall Transplant Coordinator
Department : Kidney Acquisition
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Clinical Operations
Job Specialty : Clinical Operations
Overtime Status : EXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 12 hour
Base Pay : $56.14 - $89.82

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Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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