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Location: Temple, Texas
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Internal Number: 24018069
Location: Temple, TX
Facility: BSWH Temple Medical Center
Department: Heart Transplant
Hours: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Preferred: Previous Experience with Cardiology, ICU or Cath lab
About Us
At Baylor Scott & White Health, we focus on the well-being of people, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is Texas' biggest nonprofit healthcare system, helping you live well.
Our Core Values are:
- We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
- We never settle by constantly striving for better.
- We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
- We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.
Benefits
Our competitive benefits package empowers you to live well and provides:
- Eligibility on day 1 for all benefits
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match, up to 5%
- Debt-free tuition assistance, offering access
to many no-cost and low-cost degrees, certificates and more - Immediate access to time off benefits
At Baylor Scott & White Health, your well-being is our top priority.
Note: Benefits may vary based on position type and/or level
Job Summary
As a Transplant Coordinator RN, utilize a nursing model for quality patient care. Assess patient needs and create personalized care plans. You'll watch how patients respond to personalized care. Ensure patients have smooth transitions through healthcare. Prevent complications or delays by understanding needs.
What You'll Do
- Assessing transplant eligibility for patients involves interviewing them and their families.
- You will coordinate tests for transplant candidates, identify any issues in results, and arrange necessary care. You'll work closely with patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers during this time.
- Manage recipient's post-transplant care.
- Arrange admissions, lab tests, clinic visits.
- Coordinate with referring, primary care. - Understand test results, identify irregularities.
- Set up needed care as directed.
- Teaching candidates, families, caregivers about evaluation, organ allocation, waiting, post-operative, immunosuppression effects, complications, and psychological impact of transplant.
- Using insurance knowledge to help with post-transplant prescriptions. Assisting patients with coverage issues.
- Maintaining long-term prescriptions.
- Complying with various regulatory policies and maintaining records on the transplant waitlist through different online programs.
- Coordinating recipient transplants includes using the donor website and communicating with potential recipients. Assessing their health status and notifying hospital departments are important tasks. Updates are also sent to the team.
What Will Make You Successful In The Role
- Comprehensive skills in nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
- Knowing rules, laws, regulations, standards, guidelines, certifying bodies, accrediting bodies relevant to our department is important.
- Knowledge of medical terms, health practices, disease control, medication specs, and side effects is essential for healthcare professionals.
- Respect for, and diligent observance of, professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
- Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written, for clear transmission of ideas.
- Basic computer skills: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling systems, payroll systems, electronic medical records, and email use.
Belonging Statement
We believe everyone should feel valued, supported, and welcomed. Our workforce should reflect our communities.
Qualifications
- Associate's degree level.
- (2) Two years of professional experience
- A RN License.
- Basic Life Support skills required or obtain BLS certification within 30 days if not already held.