Transplant Coordinator

This team member, usually a registered nurse, will have two key responsibilities:

• First, he or she will coordinate all the events leading up to and following surgery. These may include scheduling pretransplant testing, locating donor kidney, testing for donor compatibility, contacting the patient once a kidney has been found, and making sure that the patient has proper follow-up care.

• Second, the coordinator will teach the patient how to take care of himself before and after transplantation, including how to take medication and when to return to the transplant center for follow-up visits. He or she can put the patient in touch with community services that will make life easier for him and his family.

• Makes all communications between patients, hospital, clinics and doctors.