Transplant Team in your OR?

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Hi everyone. This is my first post. I'm curious to see if other hospitals have teams for liver and kidney transplants. Our hospital does and we take call and also do these cases when they happen during the work week as well. If your hospital has a special team for transplants, are the members compensated differently than those taking regular call? I appreciate your input. Thanks.

my hospital does have a team for liver transplant. They do not receive any difference in pay and take a lot of call.

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Specializes in Peri-Op.

One place I worked at we got a $500 bonus per case we did. plus the call back pay regardless of when it happened.

Another place was $10 more an hour differential for being on the specialty team...

Other places did nothing for the teams.

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Specializes in Pedi Surg, Liver/Kidney Transplant.
One place I worked at we got a $500 bonus per case we did. plus the call back pay regardless of when it happened.

Another place was $10 more an hour differential for being on the specialty team...

Other places did nothing for the teams.

Wow Argo that's amazing. The highest bonus our director heard was $200. Do you mind telling me where this was and if it was all transplants including lung and heart? You can PM me if you prefer. Thanks.

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The only nurses who took call in my career of 30 years (currently) have been on the recepient side of the donation process. Individuals who are involved in the retrieval of organs are either on duty or the transplant team waits for an available room. If the patient progresses into a condition such as Diabetes insipidus, the call team is activated and the donor is brought to the OR as soon as possible. If there is a need for another room to open in addition to the rooms that are running, I would pull the scrub from the donation team, have the supervisor call down the list for another circulator to come in, or else, put someone into the room who can run for what they need while I ovesee it. While this is stretching it a bit, the donor is not going to suffer adverse effects post-surgery as will the patient who is not clinically brain dead or who has impending cardiac death.

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Specializes in Pedi Surg, Liver/Kidney Transplant.
The only nurses who took call in my career of 30 years (currently) have been on the recepient side of the donation process. Individuals who are involved in the retrieval of organs are either on duty or the transplant team waits for an available room. If the patient progresses into a condition such as Diabetes insipidus, the call team is activated and the donor is brought to the OR as soon as possible. If there is a need for another room to open in addition to the rooms that are running, I would pull the scrub from the donation team, have the supervisor call down the list for another circulator to come in, or else, put someone into the room who can run for what they need while I ovesee it. While this is stretching it a bit, the donor is not going to suffer adverse effects post-surgery as will the patient who is not clinically brain dead or who has impending cardiac death.

i should clarify that our transplant team is strictly for the recipient.

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