Pediatric Liver Transplant NP?

[KMFRN5]

Hi everyone,

I'm a new grad acute care PNP looking at job options, and although I haven't interviewed for it, yet, there is a position open for a PNP in liver transplant. Anyone have experience with this area and have any thoughts or advice about the patients, care required, potential for job satisfaction, etc.? I have no experience in this area since the hospitals I have worked in were not transplant facilities.

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank you!

K.

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Hi everyone,

I'm a new grad acute care PNP looking at job options, and although I haven't interviewed for it, yet, there is a position open for a PNP in liver transplant. Anyone have experience with this area and have any thoughts or advice about the patients, care required, potential for job satisfaction, etc.? I have no experience in this area since the hospitals I have worked in were not transplant facilities.

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank you!

K.

The job really depends on how the program is structured. I work on the adult side with some work on the peds side. In the adult side most of our work is intra and post op. The PAs and NPs handle the inpatient work and work with the transplant coordinators on managing the outpatients.

Our peds program is smaller (30 vs 150 per year). However their list turns over more frequently. They have less pre transplant management. Most of their work in managing the outpatient post transplant patients with some inpatient management. We have a new position posted which will also include first assisting, pre, and post transplant management.

As far as work, most of it is managing immunosuppression as well as infectious problems post transplant.

David Carpenter, PA-C