Organ Placement & Preservation Coordinator, Transplant Donor Desk, Full Time, Nights 12 hour Shift

Organ Placement & Preservation Coordinator, Transplant Donor Desk, Full Time, Nights 12 Hour Shift

Jackson's Miami Transplant Institute

Department: Miami Transplant Institute (MTI)- Transplant Donor Desk

Address: 1801 NW 9th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136

Shift Details: Full Time, Nights 12 hour shift

***Certified surgical technologist or foreign trained physician highly preferred and OR experience Highly preferred***

Why Jackson's Miami Transplant Institute:

The Miami Transplant Institute is the only center in Florida that performs all types of organ transplantsheart, lung, heart-lung, kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas, liver, intestinal, and multi-visceral transplants. Since opening in 1970, the Miami Transplant Institute has been dedicated to offering patients the best possible surgical, medical, and rehabilitation care. Miami Transplant Institute has been doing liver transplants for almost 50 years with more than 4,000 livers since 1988. We perform more than 125 liver transplants a year, one of the highest volumes in the country. Most importantly, our programs for both children and adults consistently rank among the nation's best in terms of patient outcomes.

Job Summary

The Transplant Organ Placement and Preservation Coordinator is a professional trained in the evaluation of deceased donor organ offers, waitlist review and patient selection, donor-recipient matching, and all aspects of the coordination, planning, and follow-up on organ offers, procurement, and transplantation procedures. Also provides organ preservation support to surgeons during organ procurements outside of local donation service area (DSA). Ability to apply knowledge of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/ Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Condition of Participation (CoP) for Transplant Programs, and the Joint Commission governing organ donation and transplantation in the U.S. is required to ensure hospital and transplant program adherence to all regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receives all organ offers through the OPTN/UNOS Donor Net Online Portal.
• Requires disposition of organ offer to include an acceptance or turn down with refusal codes within 30 minutes of electronic offer.
• Reviews and interprets the organ match run to identify the appropriate FLJM recipients, identify when to select recipients from local versus national match-run, identify when offer must by-pass FLJM or when FLJM has secured local back-up.
• Understands and communicates effectively waiver information on each import organ, understanding the type of waiver and implications for payment of the organ. Presents critical aspects of the organ offers to the Transplant Surgeon focusing on donor history, hospital course, medications and major treatment interventions, laboratory review including serology, and blood type.
• Requires clarifying communication between the offering Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) and the OPTN to obtain complete clinical, psychosocial, infectious disease, laboratory, and logistical information on the organ donor and specific organ offer.
• Provides advance patient selection assistance to the transplant surgeon and assists in reviewing, screening, selecting, and recommending transplant candidates based on organ specific criteria.
• Coordinates the transplant event process which includes: patient hospital admission set up, clinical team notification to include surgery, OR, on-call resident, ICU Team, Blood Bank, transplant histology lab, Infectious Disease, etc.
• Coordinates start times of organ recovery and organ transplant.
• Detailed documentation of all communications and decisions are required on a case worksheet.
• Coordinates the recovery of the organ to include transportation logistics (ground and air), timing, and retrieval team selection including Surgeon, Preservationist, and Fellow.
• Provides guidance to the transplant team on donor-recipient matching criteria such as infectious disease screening, and other factors critical to the patient pre and peri-operative care plan.
• May also update Model of End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores, Lung Allocation Scores (LAS), heart, kidney, or other organ priority status online in UNet at the direction of the Transplant Coordinator/transplant physician.
• Attends the organ specific listing committee and / or waitlist management meeting to better familiarize themselves with patients toward the top of the organs transplant lists that will be presented with an organ offer.
• Reviews and distributes deceased donor cultures to the appropriate clinical care teams.
• Receive and triage all pre and post-transplant patient calls after hours, in consultation with Transplant Organ Placement Clinical Specialist (RN).
• Uses the OTTR database and MIRACLE as appropriate to document organ offers and acceptances.
• Insures pertinent data from transplant event are recorded accurately in the database.
• Responsible for coordinating the procurement surgical staff with the clinical recovery, preservation and transportation of organs to be used in clinical transplantation. Coordinates staff in the operating room for non-local procurements with clinical recovery and preservation of organs for transplantation, and undertakes extensive communications with transplant center, according to established guidelines Assesses organ function under preservation and preservation parameters and provides data to surgeon.
• Provides medical / technical assistance to the excising surgeon in the removal of organs and tissues.
• This assistance consists of exposure, hemostasis, and perfusion of the organs as they are procured.
• In addition, provides clinical guidance on organ preservation characteristics in terms of flush amounts, medicinal additives, to help ensure optimization of organ function in recipients.
• Retrieves blood / tissue specimens necessary for tissue typing and ensures timely delivery to the appropriate laboratory.
• Assists host OPO in the packaging of the organ(s) and transports according to protocol to recipient facility.
• This includes the retrieval of organs from the airport and transporting them to the operating room for cases that the organ is procured by a local surgeon and sent to JMH.
• Assists in the maintenance of preservation / perfusion laboratory including the maintenance of an adequate inventory and availability of all supplies and medications. Responsible and accountable for assigned procurement equipment and supplies.
• Participates in quality assessment and performance improvement activities including but not limited to data entry, data abstraction, data analysis, report compilation, QAPI Committee presentations, participation in improvement teams, and waitlist management.
• Accepts special project assignments related to transplant patient care, patient safety, data analysis, and quality improvement.
• Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise).
• Other duties as assigned.

Generally requires 1 to 3 years of related experience.

OR experience is preferred.

Experience as surgical recovery coordinator in OPO setting preferred.

Associate's degree in related field is required.

Certified surgical technologist or foreign trained physician highly preferred.

Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work accurately while meeting multiple deadlines.

Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form.

Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure.

Ability to understand and follow instructions.

Ability to exercise sound and independent judgment Knowledge and skill in use of job appropriate technology and software applications.

Certified Transplant Preservationist (CTP) is preferred.

American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers is required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.

Basic Life Support (BLS)