Procurement Transplant Coordinator

Req #:

Category: Nurses

Status: Per Diem

Shift: Day

Facility: Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

Department: Organ Transplants

Pay Range: $ $ per hour

Location:

94 Old Short Hills Road, Livingston, NJ 07039

Job Title: Procurement Transplant Coordinator (Registered Nurse), Per Diem, Day

Location: Cooperman Barnabas Medical Ctr

Department Name: Organ Transplants

Req #:

Status: Hourly

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $99, $145,113.65 per hour

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated hourly wage range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The Transplant Procurement Coordinator is a registered nurse trained in the evaluation of deceased donor organ offers, waitlist review, patient selection, post-transplant patient management and donor-recipient matching. The ability to coordinate, plan, and follow-up organ offers, procurement schedules/organ perfusion/organ transport, and timely communication with patients, Transplant Physicians, Transplant Surgeons, Transplant APPs/other team members, as well as hospital OR personnel and Logistics/Bed Management is required. Functions to effectively review organ offers and maximize acceptance of organs for transplantation in compliance with local, regional, and national policies, in a responsible and professional manner. This unit is in operation for 24 hours, 7 days per week.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Registered Nurse in the state of New Jersey
• Clinical experience in the Medical-Surgical Unit, Emergency Room, ICU, OPO and/or transplantation preferred.
• The ability to apply knowledge of the Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN), and Centers for Medicate/Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoP) for Transplant Programs, and RWJBH Transplant Programs Policy and Procedures is required to ensure hospital and transplant program adherence to all regulations.
• Receives all organ offers through the OPTN system, requiring disposition of an organ offer to include acceptance or turn down with refusal codes within 60 minutes of the electronic offer.
• Review and interpret the organ match run to identify the appropriate RWJBH transplant program recipients.
• Understands and effectively communicates waiver information on each organ offer, understanding the type of waiver, and implications for