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While transplant recipients often meet their surgeons and bedside nurses, few realize that life-saving transplant surgery begins with a specialized team of nurses working behind the scenes to coordinate the complex logistics that make transplantation possible!

The University Health Transplant Institute (UHTI) is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join our highly specialized Organ Placement team—an elite group of transplant professionals who coordinate the complex process of matching life-saving donor organs with transplant recipients across our nationally recognized transplant programs.

This is not a traditional bedside nursing position.

As an Organ Placement Nurse, you will serve at the center of one of the most time-sensitive and impactful processes in healthcare. Working closely with transplant surgeons, physicians, procurement, operating room teams, and multidisciplinary partners, you will help ensure that every donor organ opportunity is evaluated, coordinated, and advanced efficiently from donor offer through transplantation.

For nurses who thrive in high-stakes environments, enjoy critical thinking, and want to play a direct role in saving lives through transplantation, this position offers a rare and rewarding opportunity.

About the University Health Transplant Institute (UHTI)
The University Health Transplant Institute is one of the nation's leading transplant centers and home to the #1 performing liver transplant program in the United States, recognized by Interlink for three consecutive years.
More than 1,700 kidney transplants performed, building upon a transplant legacy dating back to 1970

• Dedicated multidisciplinary transplant teams including surgeons, hepatologists, nephrologists, pharmacists, nurse coordinators, social workers, and case managers
• As an Organ Placement Nurse, you will serve as a critical operational and clinical resource responsible for coordinating and collaborating on recipient organ offers to support successful transplantation.

Coordinating with organ procurement, transplant surgeons, operating room staff, laboratory teams, and ancillary departments throughout the organ placement process

• Managing multiple priorities simultaneously while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational efficiency
• Serving as an autonomous nursing professional in a role that requires adaptability, accountability, and exceptional attention to detail
• Assisting with coverage needs across the transplant coordination team to ensure uninterrupted patient care and transplant operations

This position is identified as rotating, it offers a unique mid-shift schedule designed to support transplant operations during peak organ placement activity with occasional coverage of night shift for PTO coverage
Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in good standing

• Five or more years of nursing experience
• Previous transplant nursing experience
• Experience in critical care, organ procurement, transplant coordination, or other high-acuity clinical environments
• Why Join University Health Transplant Institute?

Few nursing roles offer this level of impact on such a large scale.
Collaborate daily with transplant surgeons, physicians, coordinators, procurement, and multidisciplinary specialists dedicated to delivering life-saving care.