Conference Materials
Available Presentations:
- A Year in Review
- Empowering Your Patient to Achieve Transplant
- Navigating the Wait
- Are You a Transplant Genius
- Help Your Patient Find a Living Donor
- Transplant Basics for the Surgeon Designee
- Frontiers in Transplantation
Transplanting Kidneys, Transforming Lives: The 29th Annual Transplant Surgeon Designee Symposium for Chronic Kidney Professionals
Thursday, April 4, 2019
7:30 am - 3:45 pm
Iplay America Event Center
110 Schanck Road
Freehold, NJ 07728
This symposium is designed to provide the necessary knowledge and skills for renal health care professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge of kidney and pancreas transplantation as a treatment modality for their CKD patients. It is specifically designed for dialysis nurses, patient care technicians, dialysis social workers and dietitians. The symposium will also provide initial and recertification for Transplant Surgeon Designees. Nurses and social workers will be certified as transplant surgeon designees.
Objectives
- Identify the various roles of transplant team members and how they work with candidates to get them ready for transplant
- Identify two strategies to empower your patient to consider transplantation
- Describe how cultural stereotypes might negatively influence an individual’s experience in the healthcare setting
- Discuss key components of Blood group incompatible and high risk transplants, Hep C+ donor kidneys to Hep C- candidates and the Hope Act
- Identify key concepts in kidney transplant selection criteria
- Identify strategies to help patients find a living kidney donor
- Describe the transplant center’s approach to the identification, referral and evaluation of prospective transplant candidates
- Describe one update in the development of alternative sources for organ transplants
- Identify at least two key considerations in the psychosocial evaluation and management of transplant patients and living donors
Symposium Agenda
Moderators: Francis Weng, MD, MSCE & Marie Morgievich, MS, RN, APN.C, CCTC
| 7:30 am – 8:00 am | REGISTRATION |
| 8:00 - 8:45 am |
Transplanting Kidneys, Transforming Lives: A Year in Review
Francis Weng, MD, MSCE Marie Morgievich, MS, RN, APN.C, CCTC |
| 8:45 – 9:30 am |
Empowering Your Patient to Achieve Transplant
Casey Warren, RN, BSN, CNN, CCTC Colleen Dowling, MS, RN, APN.C, CCTC |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am |
Culturally Competent Care: A Personal Journey
Anne L. Koch, DMD President & CEO, Koch Consulting & Management |
| 10:30 -10:45 am | BREAK |
| 10:45 – 11:30 am |
Navigating the Wait: How to Decrease Transplant List Waiting Time
Anup Patel, MD |
| 10:45 – 11:30 am |
Optional Breakout Session for Social Workers Transplant Basics for the
Surgeon Designee
Dana Davila, RN, BSN, CCTC, CCM Luz Molina-Morales, RN, BSN, CNN |
| 11:30 am-12:15 pm |
Are You a Transplant Genius: You Asked, We’ll Answer
Francis Weng, MD, MSCE Marie Morgievich, MS, RN, APN.C, CCTC Anup Patel, MD |
| 12:15 – 1:30 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm |
Help Your Patient Find a Living Donor
Katie Szucs, MS, RN, APN.C, CCTC |
| 2:30 – 3:30 pm | BREAKOUT SESSIONS |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm |
Experienced RNs, PCTs & Dietitians
Frontiers in Transplantation: Innovation in the Development of Alternative Organ Sources Harry Sun, MD New RNs & PCTs Transplant Basics for the Surgeon Designee Dana Davila, RN, BSN, CCTC, CCM Luz Molina-Morales, RN, BSN, CNN Social Workers Psychosocial Issues in Transplant and Living Donation – Complex Case Studies Debbie Morgan, MHA, MSW, LCSW Marcia Garcia, MSW, LCSW Marie Gerace, MSW, LCSW Adriane Shaw, MSW, LSW Lauryn Weinshank, MSW, LSW |
| 3:30 – 3:40 pm | EVALUATIONS and CERTIFICATION |
Contact Hours
For Nurses
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American
Nephrology Nurses’ Association – Approver, an accredited approver
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
For Social Workers
This course, Transplanting Kidneys, Transforming Lives: The 29th Annual Transplant
Surgeon Designee Symposium for Chronic Kidney Disease Professionals, Approval
#190104-1240, provided by Saint Barnabas Medical Center Renal & Pancreas Transplant
Division Approved is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work
Continuing Education Approval Collaborative, which is administered by NASW-NJ. CE
Approval Collaborative Approval Period: March 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020. New
Jersey social workers will receive (6.25) Clinical & Social and Cultural Competence,
General & Social/Cultural Competence credits continuing education hour for participating
in this course.
For Dietitians
This activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration
(CDR) for approval to award 6.0 contact hours to dietitians.
For questions, please contact:
Christina Psathas Outreach Coordinator, Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
973.322.2285 /
christina.psathas@rwjbh.org