Transplant Nurse

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate high-quality care that truly impacts our patients well-being and recovery.

Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized comprehensive care making critical assessments performing skilled procedures and meticulously implementing patient care plans. Youll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

• Utilizes the nursing process to ensure appropriate patient care is provided in a cost effective quality driven and patient focused manner. Collects pertinent social psychological developmental and spiritual data from the patient significant others and other health care team members.
• Performs as ongoing assessment formulates nursing diagnosis and goals plans appropriate interventions and evaluates the outcome of the interventions.
• Consistently documents in the patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements.
• Provides appropriate teaching and information to patients and families including information on Pain Management Nutrition Skin Integrity Fall prevention Diabetes Disease Process Smoking Cessation and Discharge instructions.
• Demonstrates commitment to the goals and values of the patient Hospital community and nursing profession through cost containment measures maintaining confidentiality appropriate ethical decision making and ensuring patient safety.
• Uses interventions substantiated by research as appropriate in the patient population Participates in research activities identifies opportunities for research and collaborates with the Outcomes managers and department.

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Nursing
• Registered Nurse: TX
• 1 year of direct nursing experience
• Previous CAR-T/BMT experience
• Oncology certified
• ACLS
• BLS

Where Youll Work

Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center is an 1045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine Baylor St. Lukes is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care neuroscience oncology transplantation and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experiencemodeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients visitors staff and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care research and education.

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