The End of the Second Week

Well, the last I heard, the transplanted kidney was working fine.
I ended my second week as living donor coordinator by visiting the operating room where I used to work and helping my friends remove a kidney from my patient. There was the a little O.R. drama during the surgery but overall it was a quieter [...]

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A Little Bit Hard to Fathom

I’m now the new Living Donor Transplant Coordinator RN for my hospital and it’s the biggest responsibility I’ve ever had in my life.
My job will be to increase the number of living donor kidney transplant cases we do in our department.  Put another way, it’s up to me to walk people through the process of [...]

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