Transplant Nurse Outreach Coordinator

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Transplant Nurse Outreach Coordinator assists in the planning, implementing, and direction of outreach endeavors in the respective programs, and conducts education initiatives, facilitating collaborative relationships with the multidisciplinary team, and serves as a community resource. This position is responsible for integration of technological support with clinical care. Additionally, this position would provide assessment and analysis of the market in relation to specialty care areas and strategic program growth in collaboration with the Center for Transplant Leadership.


Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Educate:
• Demonstrates ability to instruct and share knowledge all levels of nursing staff, providers, and collaborative healthcare partners, including dialysis center staff
• Demonstrate ability to educate transplant candidates, transplant recipients, living donors candidates, living donors and their respective care givers
• Plans, performs, and assesses transplant education programs for the community, including collaborative partners and transplant team.
• Coordinate and Communicate:
• Identifies requirements for candidate evaluation. Act as a liaison between the referring healthcare partners and the multidisciplinary transplant team to facilitate referral and evaluation for potential transplant candidates
• Communicates candidate and/ or recipient status and care needs to referring and collaborative healthcare teams for continuity of care
• Demonstrates effective working relationships
• Models purposeful, direct, and effective communication with staff, peers, managers and administration.
• Is a professional resource to the community and is actively involved in community awareness activities
• Partners with other like agencies (such as the Pipeline/the ESRD Network, the NKF, Gift of Life, etc.) to promote health and advocate for organ donation and transplant
• Monitors clinical outcomes and system issues related to quality of care delivered thru external benchmarking monthly & on-demand
• Demonstrates proficiency and continual growth in the knowledge of transplantation, including regulatory requirements and best practices.
• Reviews and integrates into practice the current professional literature in the field of transplant.
• Attends practice-related conferences. Participates in professional transplant/procurement organizations.
• Demonstrates understanding and the ability to assume responsibility for individual judgments to achieve the highest quality of care for the transplant candidate, recipient, family and living donor.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 5 or more years of relevant transplant specific clinical experience

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master Degree Nursing
• Experience in customer service, outreach, and strategic analytical planning for program growth and development

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing State of Kansas
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

Preferred Licensure and Certification

• Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC) - American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC)

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.