Clistha Tucker-Spencer
La Vergne
Summary
Dedicated healthcare professional with a proven track record of achieving company objectives through consistent and methodical practices. Demonstrates ability to thrive in high-pressure environments and quickly adapt to new situations and challenges, effectively enhancing the organization's brand. Highly organized and reliable, successfully managing multiple priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. Willing to go above and beyond to take on additional responsibilities to contribute to team goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Referral Optimization Charge
Donor Network Of Arizona
Remote
09.2025 - Current
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Acts as shift leader and provides real time logistical direction of referral monitoring resources
- Determines and communicates shift plan for deployment and case assignments to scheduled staff.
- Reviews obtained information and advises on the assessment of potential organ donors
- Collaborates with other advisors on referral progression and activation of appropriate staff to facilitate donation conversations and donor management
Organ Recovery Coordinator
Tennessee Donor Services
Nashville, TN
04.2025 - Current
- Coordinated organ recovery processes to ensure timely and efficient transplant procedures.
- Collaborated with medical teams to assess donor eligibility and manage logistics of organ procurement.
- Developed training materials for new staff on recovery protocols and best practices in organ donation.
- Streamlined communication channels between healthcare providers and donor families to enhance support services.
- Coordinated logistics for organ transport, ensuring prompt delivery to transplant centers while minimizing ischemic time.
Organ Donator Coordinator
Self Employed Contractor
Nashville, TN
10.2023 - 04.2026
- Responsible for evaluation and clinical management of potential donors, evaluation, and allocation of organs, and assisting in the operating room during recovery of organs
- Assists with family conversations about potential organ donation
- Supports families throughout donation process
- Completion of all documentation associated with donation as required by internal policy and regulatory agencies
- Assists local transplant programs by traveling to distant locations to bring back (import) organs for local recipients
- Gathered and organized materials to support operations.
Organ Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Services
Remote
06.2023 - 04.2024
- Screen potential donors to ensure their organs are healthy and viable for a new recipient
- Respond to organ offers via DonorNet in a timely manner
- Communicate potential organ offer with surgeons
- Set up travel logistics for transplant team
- Notified recipient of organ acceptance and facilitate admission to hospital for transplant
- Facilitate communication between recovery team and transplant team during recovery
Organ Donation Coordinator
Midsouth Transplant foundation
Memphis, TN
04.2023 - 10.2023
- Evaluates medical suitability of potential donors
- Oversees clinical management of donor utilizing various protocols and policies
- Arranges for appropriate labs, tests and consults for organ-specific evaluations
- Arranges for serology testing and tissue typing of donor
- Inputs appropriate information into computer database related to local and import donors
- Accesses UNOS computer, identifies potential recipients, conveys donor information to respective transplant program and acts upon their decision
- Coordinates surgical recovery with donor hospital OR and organ recovery teams, both local and from distant centers
- Coordinates recovery of organs for research, as appropriate
- Arranges for ground transportation for out-of-town recovery teams
- Communicates routinely with Administrator On-Call
- Retrieves necessary supplies and solutions for organ preservation in donor operating room (OR)
- Assists with donor surgery and donor maintenance in OR, as necessary
- Packages organ(s)/ tissue typing materials per UNOS guidelines
- Delivers/arranges delivery of recovered organs to transplant hospital(s)
- Completes administrative documentation responsibilities
- Arranges for transportation and communicated arrangements for surgical recovery team to donor location and coordinates timing with referring OPO according to established protocols.
- Accompanies surgical retrieval team and provides necessary supplies and solutions for organ preservation if local team recovery is necessary
- Upon arrival at donor hospital, obtains written donor documentation and confirms donor data (ABO, consent, medical/ social history, serologies, brain death declaration, if appropriate)
- Communicates with transplant hospital as needed
- Supported local families in crisis by advocating for needed donations.
- Evaluated records and risk assessment information for preliminary donor eligibility.
Referral Response Coordinator
DCI Donor Services
Nashville, TN
12.2021 - 04.2023
- Provides referral call and referral response to hospitals on potential organ donors, document referral information, and collaborate with hospital staff
- Evaluates medical suitability of potential organ donors, utilizing information from medical records, history and physical examination and current health status
- Review hospital charts and current records of potential donors
- Collaborates with hospital staff (bedside nurse, charge nurse, Attending Physician) to ensure that the option of donation is maintained
- Arranges for appropriate labs, tests and consults for organ-specific evaluations
- Arranges for serology testing and tissue typing of donor
Respiratory Therapist
Acension Health System
Nashville, TN
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Draw and analyze blood gasses (needle sticks & Art line draws)
- Participated with trauma team (Level II Trauma Center)
- Responded to all codes (manage airway and perform CPR)
- Performed intubations and arterial line placements.
- Participate in training and mentoring new respiratory staffand associated department's staff as assigned.
- Aided physicians with various procedures such asbronchoscopies, ventilator management and intubations
- Delivered treatment for patients experiencing chronic and acute respiratory illnesses by conducting assessments andproviding diagnoses.
- Managed and operated mechanical ventilators to deliverairway management.
- Maintained patient charts and information, strictly adheringto HIPAA laws and privacy guidelines.
Agency Respiratory Therapist
Krucial Staffing
Mt. Pleasant, TX
01.2021 - 03.2021
- Intensive Care Unit
- Perform duties of professional respiratory therapist in contracted hospital setting
- Delivering care and treatment consistent with individual treatment plans for patients
- Worked within applicable standards, policies, and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
- Provided comprehensive care to improve and strengthen clients' respiratory functions.
- Managed and operated mechanical ventilators to deliver airway management to COVID positive patients.
- Provided antibiotics, bronchodilators, and anti-inflammatory medications with hand-held nebulizers, metered-dose inhalers and positive pressure equipment.
- Monitored patient reactions to drugs and carefully documented findings.
- Monitored patient's physiological responses to therapy such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, and blood chemistry changes.
- Cooperated and communicated with physicians to deliver patient satisfaction and meet compliance with set standards.
Respiratory Therapist
Tri Star Skyline Medical Center
Nashville, TN
02.2014 - 01.2021
- Draw and analyze blood gasses (needle sticks & Art line draws)
- Participated with trauma team (Level II Trauma Center)
- Responded to all codes (manage airway and perform CPR)
- Performed intubations and arterial line placements
- Participate in training and mentoring new respiratory staff and associated department's staff as assigned
- Aided physicians with various procedures such as bronchoscopies, ventilator management and intubations
- Delivered treatment for patients experiencing chronic and acute respiratory illnesses by conducting assessments and providing diagnoses
- Managed and operated mechanical ventilators to deliver airway management
- Maintained patient charts and information, strictly adhering to HIPAA laws and privacy guidelines
Respiratory Therapist
Sumner Regional Medical Center
Gallatin, TN
11.2012 - 01.2014
- Draw and analyze blood gasses (needle sticks & Art line draws)
- Participated with trauma team (Level II Trauma Center)
- Responded to all codes (manage airway and perform CPR)
- Performed intubations and arterial line placements.
- Participate in training and mentoring new respiratory staff and associated department's staff as assigned.
- Aided physicians with various procedures such as bronchoscopies, ventilator management and intubations
- Delivered treatment for patients experiencing chronic and acute respiratory illnesses by conducting assessments and providing diagnoses.
- Managed and operated mechanical ventilators to deliver airway management.
- Maintained patient charts and information, strictly adhering to HIPAA laws and privacy guidelines.
Education
Associate of Science - Respiratory Therapy
Miller Motte College
Clarksville, TN08.2012
Skills
- ACLS
- BLS
- Epic
- Cerna
- Meditech
- Powerchart
- Itransplant
- UNET
- Transnet
- Microsoft Office
Additionalinformation - Licenses
Respiratory Care Therapist
Timeline
Referral Optimization Charge
Donor Network Of Arizona
09.2025 - Current
Organ Recovery Coordinator
Tennessee Donor Services
04.2025 - Current
Organ Donator Coordinator
Self Employed Contractor
10.2023 - 04.2026
Organ Transplant Coordinator
Buckeye Transplant Services
06.2023 - 04.2024
Organ Donation Coordinator
Midsouth Transplant foundation
04.2023 - 10.2023
Referral Response Coordinator
DCI Donor Services
12.2021 - 04.2023
Respiratory Therapist
Acension Health System
05.2021 - 12.2021
Agency Respiratory Therapist
Krucial Staffing
01.2021 - 03.2021
Respiratory Therapist
Tri Star Skyline Medical Center
02.2014 - 01.2021
Respiratory Therapist
Sumner Regional Medical Center
11.2012 - 01.2014
Associate of Science - Respiratory Therapy
Miller Motte College