Organ Placement Clinical Coordinator RN, Transplant Donor Desk, Full Time, Nights 12 hour Shift

Organ Placement Clinical Coordinator RN, Transplant Donor Desk, Full Time, Nights 12 hour Shift

Jackson's Miami Transplant Institute

Department: Miami Transplant Institute (MTI)- Transplant Donor Desk

Address: 1801 NW 9th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136

Shift Details: Full Time, Nights 12 hour shift

Why Jackson's Miami Transplant Institute: 

The Miami Transplant Institute is the only center in Florida that performs all types of organ transplants—heart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multi-visceral transplants. Since opening in 1970, the Miami Transplant Institute has been dedicated to offering patients the best possible surgical, medical, and rehabilitation care. Miami Transplant Institute has been doing liver transplants for almost 50 years with more than 4,000 livers since 1988. We perform more than 125 liver transplants a year, one of the highest volumes in the country. Most importantly, our programs for both children and adults consistently rank among the nation's best in terms of patient outcomes.

Job Summary:

The Organ Placement Clinical Coordinator is a registered nurse trained in the evaluation of deceased donor organ offers, waitlist review and patient selection, donor-recipient matching, informed consent procedures for organ offers and acceptance, and all aspects of the coordination, planning, and follow-up on organ offers, procurement, and transplantation procedures. Ability to apply knowledge of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/ Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Condition of Participation (CoP) for Transplant Programs, and the Joint Commission governing organ donation and transplantation in the U.S. is required to ensure hospital and transplant program adherence to all regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receives all organ offers through the OPTN/UNOS Donor Net Online Portal. 
• Requires disposition of organ offer to include an acceptance or turn down with refusal codes within 60 minutes of electronic offer. 
• Reviews and interprets the organ match run to identify the appropriate FLJM recipients, identify when to select recipients from local versus national match-run, identify when offer must by-pass FLJM or when FLJM has secured local back-up. 
• Understands and communicates effectively waiver information on each import organ, understanding the type of waiver and implications for payment of the organ. 
• Presents critical aspects of the organ offers to the Transplant Surgeon focusing on donor history, hospital course, medications and major treatment interventions, laboratory review including serology, and blood type. 
• Requires clarifying communication between the offering Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) and the OPTN to obtain complete clinical, psychosocial, infectious disease, laboratory, and logistical information on the organ donor and specific organ offer. 
• Provides advanced patient selection assistance to the transplant surgeon and assists in reviewing, screening, selecting, and recommending transplant candidates based on organ specific criteria. 
• Coordinates the transplant event process which includes: patient hospital admission set up, clinical team notification to include surgery, OR, on-call resident, ICU Team, Blood Bank, transplant histology lab, Infectious Disease, etc. 
• Coordinates start times of organ recovery and organ transplant. 
• Detailed documentation of all communications and decisions are required on a case worksheet. 
• Coordinates the recovery of the organ to include transportation logistics (ground and air), timing, and retrieval team selection including Surgeon, Preservationist, and Fellow. 
• Reviews organ specific information that may impact patient decision making, provides education and answers questions, and obtains patients informed consent to accept a specific offer understanding the risks-benefits. 
• Performs a nursing assessment of potential candidates to determine readiness and medical, psychosocial, and financial suitability to undergo transplantation at time of organ offer. 
• Provides guidance to the transplant team on donor-recipient matching criteria such as infectious disease screening, and other factors critical to the patient pre and peri-operative care plan. 
• Add patients to the OPTN/UNOS organ transplant waiting list at the request of the Transplant Physician May also update Model of End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores, Lung Allocation Scores (LAS), heart, kidney, or other organ priority status online in UNet at the direction of the Transplant Coordinator/transplant physician. 
• Attends the organ specific listing committee meetings and / or waitlist management meetings to better familiarize themselves with patients toward the top of the organs transplant lists that will be presented with an organ offer. 
• Reviews and distributes deceased donor cultures to the appropriate clinical care teams. 
• Receives, evaluates, and triages all pre and post-transplant patient calls after hours. 
• Performs nursing assessment by phone and provides directions to patients. Consults with MD/ARNP as clinical protocols determine. Uses the OTTR database and MIRACLE as appropriate to document organ offers and acceptances. 
• Insures pertinent data from transplant event are recorded accurately in the database. 
• Will cross train to provide organ preservation coverage as needed to cover transplant center volumes Participates in quality assessment and performance improvement activities including but not limited to data entry, data abstraction, data analysis, report compilation, QAPI Committee presentations, participation in improvement teams, and waitlist management. 
• Accepts special project assignments related to transplant patient care, patient safety, data analysis, and quality improvement. 
• Follows and performs all related unit specific policies and procedures, as detailed on the unit specific competency check-list. 
• Utilizes job and unit specific equipment as required. 
• Role models behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise). 
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualification:

Experience

• Generally requires 3 to 5 years of related experience.

Education

• Associate's degree in Nursing is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing is preferred.

Credentials

• Valid Florida RN license is required. 
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment. 
• Must meet and maintain current all unit specific and organizational skills/competencies, certifications/licensures, as required by the nursing area.

Unit Specific Credential

• FL-BLS

Jackson Health System is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.