Donation Champion Learning Sessions
This is a one day, highly interactive program that focuses on the role of critical care staff in utilizing and sharing best-demonstrated practices for referring potential organ donors to the organ procurement organization, providing support for families of potential organ donors, and maximizing clinical donor management.
Attendees will be given focused information to allow them to become Donation Champions, someone who role-models and shares key information to assist colleagues in carrying out best demonstrated practices in real time.
Program Objectives
- Discuss strategies to increase the number of available transplantable organs and meet the needs of patients waiting for organ transplants.
- Describe transplant recipients' and donor family members' perspectives on organ donation.
- Discuss best demonstrated practices related to timeliness of potential organ donor referrals, family support, and approaching families about organ donation opportunities.
- Describe the clinical testing used to determine brain death and how it is communicated to families.
- Compare and contrast the process for donation after brain death with donation after cardiac death.
- Discuss donor management strategies that impact the number and quality of organs available for transplant.
Who Should Attend? ICU and ER Nurses, Nurse Leaders, Respiratory Therapists, and Anyone Who May Care for a Potential Organ Donor.
2010 Donation Champion Schedule (click date link for more information a session)
Thursday, April 15, 2010 Wilkes Barre, PA
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Harrisburg, PA
Thursday, July 22, 2010 Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, August 26, 2010 Allentown, PA
Thursday, October 28, 2010 Philadelphia, PA
To register for an upcoming session, contact Gift of Life's Hospital Services department...
Allison Baldwin, e-mail
(215) 557-8090, ext. 1212
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Explore the online quilts to view the quilt squares provided by the loved ones of those who died and gave the gift of life. The actual quilts are available for display in public places throughout the region to promote donor awareness.
