(NP) Nurse Practitioner - Cardiac Transplant Coordinator
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
San Diego, CAJob$74.51–102.45/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Transplant Coordinator/Nurse Practitioner manages pediatric heart transplant candidates and recipients from initial referral through outpatient follow-up. The role coordinates interdisciplinary care, serves as a liaison among patients, families, clinicians, referring physicians, and insurers, and provides patient and family education. It also includes transplant-list maintenance, data and documentation support, quality activities, protocol development, community education, and rotational on-call coordination for donor and recipient transplants.
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JOB SUMMARY:
The Transplant Coordinator/Nurse Practitioner responsibilities include all phases of the transplantvprocess from initial referral through outpatient follow up. This position will be responsible forvproviding comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation tovpediatric heart transplant candidates and recipients. The responsibilities include: Coordination of anvinterdisciplinary medical care delivery system under the direction of the Medical Director; Serving asva liaison between patients, family, medical staff, referring physicians, and insurance companies;vDeveloping and providing individualized patient/family teaching; Providing ongoing assessment of
appropriate nursing interventions for effective use of resources and quality assurance. Demonstrates knowledge of, and compliance with, OPTN policies and CMS regulations. Organizes and participates in quality meetings and QAPI activities. Maintains transplant list for internal and external purposes. Supports data entry for various data bases. Additional responsibilities include rotational on call duties for donor/recipient heart transplant coordination and liaison function with organ procurement agencies; data collection and documentation for clinical management and certification requirements; developing educational/teaching materials and protocols; development of clinical protocols, policy, and procedures; community education and public relations.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Master’s Degree
1 year of experience
California RN License
Nurse Practitioner
Nurse Practitioner Furnisher
NP Furnishing, CA CS II
Medicare Billing number (NPI - National Provider Identifier); upon hire but no later than 3 months of employment
BLS for Healthcare Providers, issued by American Heart Association
Ped Adv Life Support Provider (PALS)
Completion of a mandatory RCHSD critical care NP orientation
PREFERRED QUALIFICATION:
2 years of experience
2 years of NP experience in specialty area
DEA Controlled Substance II, IIn, III, IIIn, IV, V
Drug Enforcement Agency
Controlled Substance II privileges
Formal education and/or lecturing skills
National Certification in specialty area as a Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric NATCO certification and Cardiac Transplant experience
The current salary range for this position is $74.51 to $102.45
Rady Children’s Hospital is committed to compensation that is externally competitive and internally equitable. We demonstrate this commitment by conducting regular market reviews to remain competitive with organizations of similar size in the nonprofit, healthcare sector. The range listed above does not represent the full salary range for the position but is the expected hiring range for qualified candidates. Compensation decisions consider a variety of factors including experience, education, licensure, unique skillsets, organizational need, and internal equity. This posting will remain open from the “date posted” until the hiring manager has determined there is a sufficient applicant pool or until the position is filled.
EOE including disability/vet
How this job compares
Set against the 9,989 open Nurse Practitioner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$74.51–102.45/hr
- California median$92–115/hr134 hourly ranges
- US median$46–85/hr2,523 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $88.48/hr, is 12% below the California median midpoint ($100/hr) — in the middle half of Nurse Practitioner hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 388 open Nurse Practitioner jobs in California and 9,989 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health42 open
- Kaiser Permanente29 open
- Providence23 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Nurse Practitioner postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (2,913 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 3,084 of the 9,989 open Nurse Practitioner jobs (31%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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