Go Blue!
As many of you know I have accepted an amazing opportunity at Duke University Hospital. I will be joining the lung transplant program as a nurse coordinator. I am SO excited about this career move. As a transplant coordinator I will be assigned my own group of patients who are post-transplant. I will follow these patients for life. I will be responsible for watching their labs,biopsy results, and medications. I will be their primary contact when they go home. I will also be responsible for doing all their post-transplant education. The coordinators also see patients in the clinic. Duke has lung transplant clinic 4 days a week. I will see not only my patients in clinic but I will also see the other coordinator's patients too. We do have to be on-call every couple of days. When I am on-call I will field all off-hour emergencies for any of the lung transplant patients and I will help facilitate the donation process when lungs become available (I get to make some really cool phone calls!) I will also round on my patients while they are in the hospital and if they get re-admitted. I will get to work very closely with the physicians in a very collaborative setting. (MUCH different than the bedside nurse-doctor relationship) . It's going to be a bit of s shock to the system to work 5 days a week (9-5:30) and to be on-call but I am ready and excited for the change! I will have A LOT to learn and I am told it will take me one year to really feel comfortable. I think it's a little ironic b/c Duke's mascot is the blue devil and Chatham school's mascot is the blue devil. Funny.
As many of you know I have accepted an amazing opportunity at Duke University Hospital. I will be joining the lung transplant program as a nurse coordinator. I am SO excited about this career move. As a transplant coordinator I will be assigned my own group of patients who are post-transplant. I will follow these patients for life. I will be responsible for watching their labs,biopsy results, and medications. I will be their primary contact when they go home. I will also be responsible for doing all their post-transplant education. The coordinators also see patients in the clinic. Duke has lung transplant clinic 4 days a week. I will see not only my patients in clinic but I will also see the other coordinator's patients too. We do have to be on-call every couple of days. When I am on-call I will field all off-hour emergencies for any of the lung transplant patients and I will help facilitate the donation process when lungs become available (I get to make some really cool phone calls!) I will also round on my patients while they are in the hospital and if they get re-admitted. I will get to work very closely with the physicians in a very collaborative setting. (MUCH different than the bedside nurse-doctor relationship) . It's going to be a bit of s shock to the system to work 5 days a week (9-5:30) and to be on-call but I am ready and excited for the change! I will have A LOT to learn and I am told it will take me one year to really feel comfortable. I think it's a little ironic b/c Duke's mascot is the blue devil and Chatham school's mascot is the blue devil. Funny.
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