Transplant Nurse Specialists
The Transplant Nurse Specialists are Eiddwen Glyn and Sharon Warlow.
Eiddwen and Sharon provide education and support to patients following transplant surgery. Their role includes:
- developing educational material for patients to promote health following surgery,
- providing a link between the community, hospital and primary care teams,
- participating in the transplant clinic and supporting patients,
- providing a phone link to patients for information,
- co-ordinating numerous investigations and treatments such as Cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis, and immunosuppression medication regimes.
Recipient Nurse Specialists
The Recipient Nurse Specialists are Kymm O’Connor and Tracy Hopkins.
Both Kymm and Tracy provide education, support, information and counselling to potential renal and pancreas recipients throughout South and West Wales. Their role has two further main areas of focus: communication, and the maintenance and monitoring of the transplant waiting register.
Recently Kymm and Tracy have assumed the additional role of Transplant Recipient Co-ordinators, and work with three other colleagues in providing an on call service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their main role is to support patients awaiting organ donation. This includes facilitating the retrieval of organs and tissues from donors in intensive care units, contacting the recipient, and arranging the transplant process.
Kymm can be contacted as follows:
Telephone 029 2074 2453
Pager 07623 905744.
E-mail Kymm.O'Connor@.wales.nhs.uk.
Tracy can be contacted as follows:
Telephone 029 2074 4857
Pager 07623 940303
E-mail Tracy.Hopkins@.wales.nhs.uk.
UK Transplant Organ Donor Register
