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Job Description

Are you ready to bring your clinical proficiencies to a premier facility recognized as top ten in the United States for transplant services? Do you have a passion for the highest quality and patient satisfaction? Then please respond to this dynamic opportunity available with one of the best places to work in California! We would be happy to hear from you!

With expert surgical and medical proficiency in lung, heart, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center is one of the most successful facilities of its kind. Here, patients find a conscientious environment and hope for a longer, healthier life!

Cedars-Sinai is among the few medical centers in Southern California with Medicare certification for lung transplants. The center blends the multidisciplinary expertise of an experienced team of surgeons, pulmonologists, diagnostic imaging specialists and specially trained transplant nurses to provide groundbreaking care for patients who can benefit from lung transplantation.

Lung transplant patients at Cedars-Sinai have access to all of the services and programs for which the Medical Center is renowned. These include the S. Mark Taper Imaging Center, with groundbreaking diagnostic technologies; innovative surgical suites; and the latest in new techniques such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, lung volume reduction surgery and minimally invasive surgical techniques and interventional pulmonology.

Essential Job Duties:

• The Lung Transplant Coordinator is responsible for the planning and coordination of all aspects of care for the patients throughout the continuum of services—from initial referral to follow-up care

• The Transplant Coordinator I is involved with the planning and coordination of routine to moderately sophisticated perioperative and intra-operative transplant process. The Transplant Coordinator I support the donor offers and coordinates with the interdisciplinary services to determine viability..

• Serves as the primary coordinator for the interdisciplinary team, including: physicians, nurses, social workers, dietitians, pharmacists, financial analysts, case managers, and support staff.

• Develops, coordinates, implements, and evaluates educational programs/projects for patients, personnel, and the community.

• Collects/documents data to meet clinical, financial, and regulatory requirements.

• Participates in the development of guidelines, protocols, pathways, and other performance improvement and research activities.

• Serves as a patient advocate throughout the patient care process.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree Bachelors of Science in Nursing

Licenses:

Basic Life Support (BLS) Basic Life Support Upon Hire

RN State License Registered Nurse License, California Upon Hire

Experience:

3 years Critical Care or Acute Care Nursing experience

Physical Demands:

Stand dynamically to perform a function and move to perform another.

Stand statically in one place to perform a function without changing location.

Sit at a desk or table with some walking, standing, bending, stooping, or carrying of light objects.

Perform continuous operation of a personal computer for four hours or more.

Use hands and fingers to handle and manipulate objects and/or operate equipment.

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Applicant_Accommodation@cshs.org and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu). For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through March each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment.

Req ID : 6474

Working Title : Registered Nurse -Lung Transplant Coordinator - 10 Hour Days

Department : Lung Acquisition

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category : Clinical Operations

Job Specialty : Clinical Operations

Overtime Status : EXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 10 hour

Base Pay : $57.80 - $92.48

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.