Location: Chicago, Illinois
Business Unit: Rush Medical Center
Hospital: Rush University Medical Center
Department: Liver Transplantation
Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)
Shift: Shift 2
Work Schedule: 12 Hr (3:00:00 PM - 11:00:00 PM)
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Pay Range: 31.14 - 53.94
Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may very depending on the circumstances of each case.
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.
Other Information
Required Job Qualifications:
- BSN or MSN required.
- Current RN licensure required in the state of Illinois.
- At least one year of nursing experience required.
- Analytical ability.
- Communication skills in order to lead and teach.
- Ability to interact effectively with others in difficult situations.
- The ability to check documents for errors, use a keyboard to enter or retrieve data and closely examine specimens, images, or reports.
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 30 minutes of electronic offer.
- Reviews and interprets the organ match run to identify the appropriate Rush recipients, identify when to select recipients from local versus national match-run, identify when offer must by-pass Rush or when Rush 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 perioperative care plan.
- Add patients to the OPTN/UNOS organ transplant waiting list at the request of the Transplant Physician.
Performs nursing assessment by phone and provides directions to patients. Consults with MD/ARNP as clinical protocols determine. 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.
- Role models behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise).
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
