Transfusion Nurse Coordinator Jobs

Overview:Responsibilities:

• Gather and review transfusion and transplant history to establish the patient transfusion profile.
• Gather clinical data regarding transfusion reactions and facilitate appropriate changes to transfusion profile.
• Review patient records for individual patient clinical issues related to transfusion.
• Prepare reports to communicate individual patient transfusion profiles to the blood bank serving the patient and patient care teams.
• Evaluate, track and process blood bank laboratory reports.
• Help develop and communicate a transfusion plan of care to patient care teams.
• Serve as a liaison between partner patient-care areas for transfusion issues.
• Provide transfusion educate members to care team and patients with mismatched transplants.
• Facilitates and tracks the response of HLA-selected platelets and granulocyte transfusions.
• Consult and collaborate with inpatient and outpatient care teams.
• Review reports to verify transfusion profile across multi-institutional systems.
• Facilitate consultation with the SCCA Transfusion Medicine Attending.

Qualifications:

• Additional certification may be required dependent upon department.
• Ability to communicate effectively by looking and listening for cues, asking open-ended questions, exploring cues, using pauses, screening responses, and clarifying response.
• Ability to develop clinical judgment.
• Ability to effectively listen by using reflecting, acknowledging, summarizing, empathizing, and paraphrasing skill.
• Current Washington State nursing license.
• BLS is a required and must be obtained within 30-days from the hire date, from an approved entity as outlined in the Basic and Advanced Life Support Training Verification Policy
• Nursing degree
• Critical thinking; the ability to practice the cognitive skills of analyzing, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge
• Ability to effectively provide information by checking what information the person knows already, giving small amounts of information at a time, using clear terms and avoiding jargon, avoiding detail unless it is requested, checking for understanding, and pausing and waiting for a response.
• Time Management skills; the ability to organize and manage time and tasks independently

• Two years of nursing experience
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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