Registered Nurse (RN) - Renal PCU - Progressive Care Unit
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
5x8 hrs

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. When determining base pay, we take a comprehensive approach that considers your skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and other critical factors. The pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications, but it does not encompass all the elements that contribute to your total compensation package.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. G raduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts. BSN required. 2. M inimum two years of experience (within the last 5 years) with renal medicine-focused patient care required. 3. M inimum two years of experience (within the last 5 years) with abdominal surgery or transplant-focused patient care required. 4. T riage experience (telephone-based clinical assessment technique) required. 5. C omprehension with the ability to educate patients regarding immunosuppressants, rejection, and infection treatments strongly preferred. 6. P rior experience (1+ years) as a Clinical Transplant Coordinator strongly preferred. 7. F amiliarity with complex medication regimens and management preferred. 8. R ecent experience (within 3 years) in ambulatory nursing preferred. 9. ABTC C ertified Clinical Transplant Coordinator preferred. Skills, Competencies, and Abilities: 0. D ecision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies, and objectives. 1. P roblem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied and complex, often requiring staff input, innovation, creativity, often understanding and utilizing diagnostic results to resolve issues or care plan. 2. O ral communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex information in English to multidisciplinary care team members, patients, caregivers, and outside providers, including presentations during weekly program meetings. 3. T eam Work: Ability to create a collaborative and respectful team environment while constantly improving workflows and exhibiting skills of flexibility, organization, and communication skills in a small group. 4. A utonomy: Ability to be self-directed, work independently and be accountable for responsiveness to patient and program needs. 5. M ust be able to function well in a busy environment, and to juggle multiple responsibilities. STAFF NURSE -RENAL/ PANCREAS TRANSPLANT - COORDINATOR/ 40 Hours/ Variable/ Rotating Shift/ BWH Boston / Ambulatory nursing Excellent Care to Patients and Families • The Best Staff • In the Safest Environment The Transplant coordinator will primarily serve in Post - Renal / Pancreas Transplant, caring for kidney or pancreas transplant recipients. The coordinator will need an understanding of both pre - and post-renal / pancreas transplant care. Based on department needs, care may extend to living kidney donor patients, pre-transplant potential candidates, and waitlisted candidates. The nurse coordinator schedule will vary weekdays, based on patient care needs and when functioning successfully independently. Post-Transplant: - Accountable for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating a plan of care for our post operative renal and pancreas transplant patient population. - Provides in-patient teaching for renal and pancreas transplant recipients and support person/caregiver,coordinated with the inpatient nursing staff to ensure consistency and collaborates with the multidisciplinary inpatient transplant team rounds. - Provides ongoing education to transplant patients and family members regarding important aspects of care, including but not limited to activity, diet, medication adherence and healthcare follow-up. Helps to maintain current supply of patient/family education materials. - Responsible for medical management care coordination for patients in collaboration with Transplant Nephrologists and Surgeons. Responsible for revising plan of care as needed. - Attends post-transplant clinic sessions and provides appropriate teaching, emotional support, medication administration, wound care, drain care, and other duties as needed. - Coordinates renal transplant medicine clinic visit follow-up, including review of same day and faxed labs results with transplant nephrologist, leading to a revised care plan. - Facilitates interactions of the multidisciplinary team members, including physicians, social work, finance coordinator, transplant pharmacist, nutritionist and outside consultants. - Telephone contact with patients to assess clinical status, monitor response to therapy, adjust medications in consultation with clinical providers, and organize outpatient or inpatient follow-up as needed. - Working closely with transplant nephrologists, coordinates all outpatient care follow-up for post-transplant patients, including but not limited to prescription refills and medication changes, assisting/obtaining prior authorizations, arranging for testing and treatment services, and facilitating admissions as necessary within Brigham & Women’s or a patient’s local treatment facility. - Participate in interdisciplinary post-transplant meetings, provide current information regarding patients, relaying any new developments to the multi-disciplinary team, which may impact the care plan. - Sets priorities when organizing care for patients with varying acuity. - Maintain continuity of care through clear and concise (verbal and written) communication. - Other duties as assigned. Pre-Transplant: - Effectively manage patients through referral, evaluation, and waitlist phases toward transplant. - Meet potential transplant recipients and living donors (patients) in the clinic setting. Provide an overview of transplantation. - Communicate with living donor or recipient's PCP, referring nephrologist or endocrinologist, and other specialists as applicable to request records or coordinate testing and further care. - Maintain records on potential recipients. Professional Attributes - Establishes effective professional relationships with other members of the healthcare team. - Serves as role model and resource for other staff, providing assistance with the care coordination process, clinical skills and patient teaching. - Maintains communication with other organ transplant programs at Brigham & Women’s and other transplant centers, as needed, in order to keep abreast of current information. - Maintains professional relationships with appropriate professional organizations. - Regularly incorporates new scientific findings in specific area of expertise into clinical practice. Maintains awareness of new developments in the specialized area and participates in research activities. Participatory Management - Utilizes time and materials effectively. - Participates in the orientation of new staff members, students and others as appropriate. Provides input into the evaluation of other staff as appropriate. - Adheres to hospital and departmental policies. Recommends changes in policies and procedures through appropriate channels. - Participates in determining and implementing goals and objectives for the transplant program, and in the periodic review of the program.

Recruiter: Boyd, Michael