Solid Organ Transplant TPIAT Coordinator

Coordinates the care of the patient with chronic pancreatitis through all phases’ pre, peri, post.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates patient care across the care continuum pre and post-TPIAT for adult patients.
  • Collaborates with MD, interdisciplinary team members, community members, patients, families, and significant others to plan, manage, evaluate care systems and resources.
  • Serves as liaison with physicians to implement medical management of condition changes, diagnostic test results, lab results, based on knowledge of patient and patient condition.
  • Provides triage and makes patient care decisions. Responds to patient phone calls about condition changes. Directs medical care and evaluation as appropriate.
  • Coordinates and identifies the need to include other professional expertise; makes arrangements, both local and national, to include care provides in a multi-disciplinary treatment plan.
  • Provides direct patient assessment and evaluation:
  • obtains patient history
  • provides physician with information on patient status
  • outpatient follow-up visits
  • maintains appropriate records of patient care activities
  • performs assessment of appropriate system function on patients.
  • Acts as liaison with community MD and pharmacists/home care/IV to ensure continuum of care is provided.
  • Meets all role-related and age specific competencies
• Provides patient, MD, community and professional nurse education.
  • Coordinates and participates in patient, staff, MD and community education.
  • Educates patients on the medical management protocols for necessary compliance.
  • Provides on-going patient education through the life of patient.
  • Provides on-going education to families/S.O. who are in supporting roles to patients.
  • Provides clinical data to local networks and insurance companies as requested.
  • Acts as a role model for other areas of nursing by demonstrating care coordination and arrangement, problem solving skills and efficient utilization of resources across all care settings.
  • Serves as a preceptor in student learning situations.
  • Orients new staff to the role of care coordinator
• Research.
  • Completes data for FDA reports on islet cell cultures.
  • Review and respond to patient care issues in returned QOL surveys.
•  Provides program development.
  • Helps develop and maintain clinical care guidelines for the TP-IAT program
  • Develops new approaches to assist patients in management of their health care over the course of a lifetime.
  • Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
  • Serves on committees.
  • Identifies need in assist in writing and implementing new policies.
•  Professional development.
  • Keeps current of new developments in pancreatitis and TPIAT through reading, attending seminars and networking with other coordinators across the nation.
  • Attends, presents and membership in nursing work groups.
  • Demonstrates value and upholds team building principles.
  • Serves as professional role-model.

Required Qualifications

· BS/BS in Nursing

Experience

· 3 years acute care experience in ICU, CCU, Acute Care Med-Surg caring for complex pancreas patients or other relevant nursing experience

License/Certification/Registration

· RN License

Fairview offers a generous benefit package including but not limited to medical, dental, vision plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement, early access to earned wages, and more! Please follow this link for additional information: https://www..fairview.org/careers/benefits/noncontract

The posted pay range is for a 40-hour workweek (1.0 FTE). The actual rate of pay offered within this range may depend on several factors, such as FTE, skills, knowledge, relevant education, experience, and market conditions. Additionally, our organization values pay equity and considers the internal equity of our team when making any offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical. If your role is eligible for a sign-on bonus, the bonus program that is approved and in place at the time of offer, is what will be honored.