![]() ![]() Together, the two go to each patient room to help with various tasks, including taking vitals, checking blood sugar levels, perform additional insulin checks, assist in administration of blood products, transport patients to procedures and help with showers. ![]() She’s partnered with colleague Wendy Scholl, who is also a transplant coordinator. In early November, her fellow transplant coordinators assumed care of her patients and Theis began working three 12-hour shifts each week. “I thought that would be a good fit for me,” she says. Hunter advised there was a nurse rover position available on SOTU. Theis knew SOTU nurses were floating to COVID-19 units and that they were also short patient care technicians. She left Nebraska Medicine for a brief stint at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center before returning in 2018 to work in the Kidney Transplant Program. During her time at Donate Life, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Clarkson College. Her training was as a heart and lung perfusionist. She came to Nebraska Medicine in 2006 to work for Donate Life Services as an organ procurement coordinator. Theis has never worked in an inpatient unit. “I talked to Vicki Hunter to see how I could help,” Theis says. Nancy Theis, a transplant coordinator who follows patients after their kidney transplant, knew the staffing shortages were adding stress on her friends and colleagues who worked on the Solid Organ Transplant Unit, located on level five of Clarkson Tower. Source: Extension Educator Susan Harris-Broomfield – or was looking for a way to help. It is a meaningful random act of kindness that most any human can do! Visit Nebraska Organ Recovery at learn more and register as a donor. Suggest it to your friends, educate your teen, remind yourself. Talk to your doctor, spiritual advisor, and family. Do what can be done now to save lives later. Perhaps this holiday season, consider giving the greatest gift – the gift of life. It creates the strongest sense of gratitude imaginable, whether the donor chooses to be known or remain anonymous. Those who have witnessed the life of a loved one saved will most certainly argue there is nothing creepy about it. To some, the thought is “creepy” or disturbing. ![]() It is something “other people” must deal with, until it happens to us. We never dream that this can affect our own lives. One donor can save up to eight lives with organ donations of a heart, two lungs, two kidneys, liver, small intestine, and pancreas. ![]() From just one person’s decision to become a donor, up to 100 people in need can benefit from receiving things like heart valves, tendons, bone, and skin. Even those over 80 years of age can become donors. More people than ever before can be donors, due to recent advances in medical technology. Individuals with millions of dollars have their place on the waiting list the same as anyone else. Under federal law, all organs recovered for transplant from deceased donors in our country have tight control to ensure equal access without any group or person having an unfair advantage. If you have been on the fence regarding organ donation, or if you are a bit fearful of the process and legality/moral issues, rest assured that today’s laws and procedures create a respectful, ethical flow of events before and after death. One may also change a status of “registered” to “non-registered”, if so desired. Those who have not done that but wish to become an organ, tissue, and/or eye donor may visit the Nebraska Organ Recovery website at. Anyone age 16 or over can consent to be a donor by simply choosing the option when getting his or her driver’s license. Registering to donate organs is a quick and easy thing to do, yet many of us just have not taken the time to do so. Statistically, 50 of them will die without receiving their needed life-saving procedure.Įven though 95% of adults in the United States support organ donation, only 54% actually sign up to do it, according to the U.S. Nearly 500 of those people live right here in Nebraska. Each year, that number on the waiting list continues to grow much larger than the number of donors. Over 114,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. ![]()
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