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When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Under the direction of the Transplant Quality Manager, Transplant Nurse Manager, Chair, Transplantation and other Department of Transplantation leadership, the Transplant Quality Nurse is responsible for ensuring that transplant-related data is accurate, complete, timely, and compliant with federal regulations and organizational standards. This role blends clinical nursing knowledge with data management and regulatory reporting, and is foundational for maintaining transplant program accreditation.

Job Description:

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities** including but not limited to:

1. Responsible for accurate and timely reporting of UNOS/OPTN required data including but not limited to:

a. Wait-listing patients in UNET

b. Completing TEIDI registry forms (TCR/TRR)

c. List status 1 justification forms

d. Explant pathology Tiedi forms

2. Maintain regulatory documentation and correspondence while listing liver and kidney transplant candidates

3. Assist with updating MELD scores for liver transplant candidates, optimizing data for risk adjustment

4. Monitors post liver transplant patient population to identify candidates eligible for priority kidney transplant points

5. Completes UNOS graft failure and death forms in Tiedi

6. Collaborates with LHMC Quality to conduct data validation of SRTR risk adjusted variables

7. In collaboration with the Transplant Quality Manager, develops, manages and assists with auditing corrective action plans

8. In collaboration with the Transplant Quality Manager, performs medical chart reviews to analyze quality trends

9. Assists the Transplant Quality Manager with the RCA process for transplant patient deaths and graft failures.

10. Working with the Transplant Quality Manager, responds to specific data requests and develops data collection plans, conducts chart review, analyzes and summarizes quality improvement project data for review by the transplant team as well as key stakeholders

11. Audits transplant protocols and policies to ensure adherence and identify potential areas of improvement

12. Assists with reviewing safety reports submitted in the STARS module; tracking, following up and collaborating on corrective action plans

13. Serves as an active participant in the Transplant continuous quality improvement work through various efforts including creation, distribution, and presentation of data

14. Interacts with various members of the multidisciplinary care team to ensure accurate data capture reviewed at the Transplant Quality meetings

15. Escalates concerns to department leadership to problem solve when needed

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS or BSN required with preference for expertise in nursing

• Needs to hold Massachusetts RN license

• 3 plus years of healthcare experience required. Some experience in the fields of transplantation is preferred

Key Relationships: Transplant Quality Manager, Chair, Division of Transplantation; Vice Chair, Division of Transplantation, Transplant Executive Director, Transplant Administrator, Transplant Nurse Manager

Pay Range:

$35.15 - $90.60

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled