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ForwardTransplant Class August 2026
This course was designed because participants are new to caring for abdominal transplant patients and receive education and hands-on skills practice and demonstration in this course.
Target Audience
Registered Nurse
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the learner will be able to:
- Define intestinal failure
- Describe potential complications of liver, intestine and kidney transplant
- Define specific labs values for liver, intestine and kidney recipients
- State functions of the liver
- Describe the aspects of nursing care of the post-operative transplant recipient.
- List the different drugs of maintenance immunosuppression used to prevent rejection in the transplant recipient
- Discuss the different roles of members of the transplant psychosocial care team
Course summary
- 6.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 6.00 Attendance
Transplant Class – Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Time | Topic | Speaker |
7:00 – 7:05 | Welcome/Intro
| Merel Duursma BSN, RN – Clinical Nurse Educator, 7B |
7:05 – 8:00 | Care of the Child with Intestinal Failure | Kimmy Ackerman MSN, RN, CRNP – Nurse Practitioner, ICare |
8:00 – 8:35 | Nursing Care of the Intestinal Transplant Patient | Merel Duursma BSN, RN – Clinical Nurse Educator, 7B |
8:35 – 8:50 | Break |
|
8:50 – 9:25 | Nursing Care of the Liver Transplant Patient | Merel Duursma BSN, RN – Clinical Nurse Educator, 7B |
9:25 – 9:55 | Nursing Care of the Kidney Transplant Patient | Merel Duursma BSN, RN – Clinical Nurse Educator, 7B |
9:55 – 10:00 | Brain Break |
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10:00 – 11:00 | Intro to Transplant Labs
| Tammy Fazzolare-Martin DMSc, PA-C – Physician Assistant, Transplant |
11:00 – 11:45 | Intro to Transplant Medications | Ann Carl BCPPS – Clinical Pharmacist, ICare, Transplant, Nephrology, GI
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11:45 – 12:30 | LUNCH |
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12:30 – 1:15 | Psychosocial Aspects of Transplant | Mikaela Freeman CCLS – Child Life Specialist, 7B |
1:15 – 1:30 | Break |
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1:30 – 2:30 | Transplant Nursing Skills Sessions | Jessica Adams MSN, CPNP-AC – Nurse Practitioner, Transplant |
2:30 – 2:45 | Wrap-Up / Post-survey | Merel Duursma BSN, RN – Clinical Nurse Educator, 7B
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Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 6.0 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 6.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 6.00 Attendance