PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL PARTNERS

The success of organ and tissue donation hinges on our partnership with healthcare professionals in the 84 hospitals in this region and our dual commitment to support donor families and transplant recipients.

Early referrals and the management of the patient by hospitals allow IDS staff to quickly evaluate the patient's ability to become a donor. Hospital staff and IDS work together to help the potential donor's family understand what brain death means while providing emotional support and detailed information on organ donation. Transplant centers recover and transplant the needed donations to the patients in their care.

All of these coordinated efforts carefully carried out by hospitals, IDS, and transplant centers lead to more lives being saved by the donor, and by all of us honoring the wish to give the gift of life.

Click here to download brochure - Critical Elements of Brain Death & Catastrophic Brain Injury

EDUCATION

Donation & Transplantation Symposium - See AGENDA

September 29, 2011 - Salt Lake City, Utah

Our symposium was designed to educate and update health care professionals in the area of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, attendees were exposed to best practices and current ethical, legal, and medical issues related to donation and transplantation. This conference was tarted towards critical care nurses, OR nurses, ER nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, palliative care specialists, pastoral care, hospital administrators, and physicians.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the symposium, the participant were able to:

Identify current ethical, legal, and medical issues related to the care of critically ill or injured patients who are canditates for organ and tissue donation.
Articulate an accurate undertanding of the referral, recovery, and allocation process.
Identify best practice guideines for effective donor management prior to and after brain death declaration.
Identify the key roles of the ICU nursing staff, the Intermountain Donor Services staff, and the critical care medical staff in the management of potential organ and tissue donors.
Articulate an accurate understanding of the issues related to when a person is really dead and organ donation after circulatory death (DCD).
Describe the methods being used to decrease the number of deaths on the waiting list.
Describe the unique differences between the determinations of brain death in adults vs. children.
Develop an better understanding of the donation process from both the donor family's and the recipient's point of view.

Symposium presentations. Click on title to view PowerPoint presentation. Video presentations also available.

Historical Perspective - Tracy Schmidt, IDS Click here for video.

How the Yes Designation on Driver Licenses Affects Donation - Alex McDonald, IDS

Declaration of Brain Death in Adults and Pediatric Cases - Thomas Nakagawa, MD - Brenner Children's Hospital

Respecting Donor Families - the Chris Henry story

What's My Role - Helen Bottenfield, The Organ Donation and Transplant Alliance and Craig Myrick, IDS

Why Are You Cluttering Up Our Nurses Stations? - Tamela Crockett, IDS

Donor Family/Recipient Panel - (click on specific name below for their PowerPoint presentation)

Debbie Bernhisel - Donor Mom

Molly Jackson - Donor Mom

Courtney Robinson - Recipient

Corrine Turner - Donor Mom