JHH Kidney Transplant Coordinator RN

Johns Hopkins Medical Management Corporation•Baltimore, MD

1d•$60 - $60

About The Position

Johns Hopkins Intrastaff is the internal staffing agency for the Johns Hopkins Health System and partner hospitals, providing temporary support to a variety of Johns Hopkins locations. Our employees are the strength of our service. Intrastaff is unique because it's one of the very few agencies where a person has the benefit of being a temporary employee and also feels like a member of a large organization. Working at Hopkins means joining a culturally diverse team that includes some of the best nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals in the world. Directly or indirectly, you'll have exposure to cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking medical research. The Transplant Nurse Coordinator prepares patients for transplantation through arranging and monitoring required testing, providing education, and ensuring that internal and external activities are coordinated. Help to coordinate care and clinically manage post-transplant recipients. This includes prescription refills, clinics, triaging calls, medication reconciliation, reviewing charts, and collaboration with other transplant disciplines like pharmacy and social work.

Requirements

Current Nursing License
BLS
2 years of current strong Med Surg experience and Transplant experience

Nice To Haves

EPIC experience
experience with kidney transplant coordination

Responsibilities

Facilitating and coordinating programs that may include hospital inpatients, outpatients, families, community, and employees of both the hospital and the university by providing evidence-based care based on the nursing process, policies, procedures, and protocols of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Providing direction to/management of other team members to promote quality, safety, and excellence in care.
Working collaboratively with and providing leadership for a multidisciplinary health care team to support program initiatives that support quality, safety, and excellence in care.
Participating in promoting and identifying quality improvement initiatives (clinical, financial, operational) that support, protect, and promotes area of specialty.
Initiating and participating in the research activities relevant to the specialty area.
Implementing initiatives in the area of specialty as directed by nursing and medical leadership.
Fostering a clinical environment of service excellence.
Assumes responsibility for on-call activities that include organizing transplants and triaging patient problems.
High level of skill in patient triage, able to triage simple and complex problems by telephone
Ability to use a computer keyboard to input and obtain data
Ability to document legibly using a writing instrument