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An Introductory
Course for the NEW
Transplant Professional
& Procurement
Professional
NATCO'S
ONLY
June 12-15, 2015
Tempe Mission Palms Hotel
Tempe, Arizona
Register 3 ways: Online, Fax or Mail
Hotel Deadline: May 22, 2015
Meeting Registration Deadline:
March 27, 2015 (Early Bird) or May 29, 2015
INTRODUCTORY
COURSE
SCHEDULED
FOR 2015!
Concurrent Courses:
The Care of the Transplant
Recipient
The Organ & Tissue
Recovery Process
www.natco1.org
General Information
Target Audience
The Introductory Course is designed to provide basic information to the new procurement or transplant professional. Due
to the intense nature of the course, faculty members suggest
that participants have at least one month of on-the-job experience in transplantation or donation before attending the
course.
The course curriculum follows the content outlines for the
American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC) CCTC and
CPTC examinations. However, it is not designed as a preparatory course for the examinations. ABTC is a certification board
of and for transplant professionals. If you would like further
information on the ABTC examinations, please call the ABTC
Executive Office at (913) 895-4603 or visit the ABTC website
at www.abtc.net.
Location & Accommodations
The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel is five miles from the Phoenix Sky
Harbor International Airport. The hotel is located in downtown
Tempe and within walking distance of more than 170 shops, galleries and restaurants. The hotel is a certified conference center, creating a high-quality learning experience. Tempe Mission Palms offers
many amenities, including an outdoor swimming pool with two
whirlpools, complimentary fitness center and tennis courts. To learn
more about the hotel, please visit www.missionpalms.com. NATCO
has reserved a block of rooms at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel
for course participants at a rate of $149 plus tax and hospitality fee
per night for a single or double room. To make your hotel reservations, contact the hotel directly at 480-894-1400 or 800-547-8705
or make your reservations online at http://bit.ly/NATCOJuneHotel.
In order to receive this room rate, you must make your
hotel reservation no later than midnight Friday,
May 22, 2015.
An additional $12.95 per
night hospitality fee will
be charged to each
guestroom.
NATCO
Membership
The fee includes local and toll-free telephone calls, daily newspaper delivered to each guestroom, in-room coffee service, airport
transportation, wireless high-speed Internet access, valet parking,
bell staff and maid gratuities and access to the fitness center.
Transportation
Each attendee receives complimentary ground transportation
to and from the airport with a room reservation at the conference hotel. The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel provides shuttle service every half hour from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Once you have
arrived at Sky Harbor International Airport, pick up your luggage at
the baggage claim, then call the Tempe Mission Palms operator at
480-894-1400 using your personal cell phone or airport pay phone
and indicate in which terminal you are located. The shuttle should
arrive within a few minutes. The travel time to the hotel is approximately 10 minutes.
Please let the hotel bell staff know that you need to take the next
shuttle to the airport approximately 15 minutes prior to your
departure time. The shuttle leaves every half-hour.
Taxi: Cab fares to and from the airport are a flat fee of $18 one-way.
Parking: Complimentary valet parking is available at the hotel.
Metered parking is also available at $2 per hour or $12 per day.
Attire
Business casual attire is suggested for all sessions. In June the average temperature in Tempe is 103 degrees Fahrenheit during the
day, and it cools into the upper 60s in the evening. Be sure to bring
a sweater or jacket to the meeting rooms (although it is hot outside, the meeting rooms are ALWAYS cold).
Course Fees
The course registration fee includes all course sessions, instructional materials, continuing education record keeping, daily continental breakfasts, continuous morning and afternoon refreshment breaks, lunch buffets and a reception. To ensure that you
may attend the course, you must remit your completed registration form, along with the course fee, by March 27 for discounted
registration or by May 29, 2015. NATCO accepts course registration
payments by check or by credit card, payable in U.S. funds drawn
on a U.S. bank to NATCO. Confirmation of registration will be sent
by email. If you have not received a confirmation within one week
of the meeting, please call the NATCO Executive Office at 703-4839820 to confirm receipt of your registration.
Join NATCO today and take advantage of the discounted $140
NATCO membership fee (normally $165). You can apply for membership now and pay the member course fee. Membership is
effective at the end of the course through December 31, 2015.
Please complete the enclosed membership form. You must
complete separate applications for the course and NATCO
membership, which are included in this brochure. Course
registrations and NATCO membership fees should be
made payable to NATCO and sent to the NATCO Executive Office.
Cancellation Policy
Join NATCO today and take advantage of the discounted $140
NATCO membership fee (normally $165). You can apply for membership now and pay the member course fee. Membership is
effective at the end of the course through December 31, 2015.
Please complete the enclosed membership form. NOTE: You
must complete separate applications for: 1) the course and 2)
NATCO membership, which are included in this brochure. Course
registrations and NATCO membership fees should be made payable to NATCO and sent to the NATCO Executive Office.
A refund of the registration fee, less a $50 processing fee, will be made if written cancellation (and
request for reimbursement or substitution) is
received by May 29, 2015. Substitutions are permitted, but must be submitted in writing and received
by May 29. You may submit a written cancellation
and request for reimbursement or substitution via
email at [email protected]. Please include refund
information and the reason for the cancellation.
An Introductory Course
for the NEW Transplant
& Procurement
Professional
Continuing Education
NATCO will award continuing education certificates to participants who attend the program and return the CE form
and completed evaluation. CE records are maintained by
the NATCO Executive Office for a period of seven years.
Certificates are provided to attendees after the course.
Full objectives for each session will be provided on NATCO’s
website at www.natco1.org.
This activity has been submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91) for approval to award contact hours.
The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of
continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
This program has been approved by the American Board
for Transplant Certification (ABTC) for Category 1 CEPTCs.
TRANSPLANT FOCUS
CARE OF THE TRANSPLANT
RECIPIENT
PURPOSE & GOALS
To provide basic instruction to the transplant professional.
The course provides a common background of knowledge
and skills among transplant professionals that will promote high standards of care for the transplant recipient.
The ultimate goal of the course is to promote high-quality
care for the patient population served by the transplant
professional.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Discuss the roles of the federal government and the
OPTN/UNOS in transplantation.
• Identify the key concepts in immunology as related to
transplantation.
• Discuss the evaluation process, wait list management,
peri-operative and post-operative care of the transplant recipient.
• Identify current immunosuppressive protocols utilized
in the transplant population.
• Review the short-term and long-term complications
for the transplant recipient.
• Discuss the selection process, evaluation and postoperative care of the living donor.
• Discuss the rehabilitation process of the transplant
recipient.
• Examine the roles of the transplant professional.
• Identify techniques utilized in teaching the adult
learner.
PROCUREMENT FOCUS
THE ORGAN & TISSUE RECOVERY
PROCESS
PURPOSE & GOALS
To provide basic instruction to procurement professionals on the recovery of organs and tissue for transplantation. The content provides a
common background of knowledge and skills to promote high standards of quality in organ and tissue procurement, preservation and distribution. The ultimate goal of the course is to promote increased organ
and tissue donation and to accelerate the recovery of organs and tissue
for transplantation.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Discuss the roles of the federal government and the OPTN/UNOS in
organ and tissue donation.
• Identify the important concepts in histocompatibility as related to
organ procurement, preservation and transplantation.
• Explore the organ and tissue donation process.
• Describe the role of the coordinator in the evaluation and documentation of brain death.
• List serologic methods used to identify infectious diseases in potential organ donors.
• Discuss the correct preservation, utilization and distribution of
organs for transplantation.
• Identify components of the informed authorization process.
• Discuss the role of the coordinator in the referral process, donor
evaluation and management.
• Describe methods to increase a hospital’s organ donation conversion rates.
• Describe the role of the coordinator in the operating room during
an organ recovery.
• Define donation after cardiac death (DCD), including controlled and
uncontrolled scenarios and considerations surrounding DCD.
• Discuss donor management considerations in the pediatric
population.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
NATCO
P.O. Box 711233 • Oak Hill, VA 20171
Phone: 703-483-9820 • Fax: 703-879-7544
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.natco1.org
To review a complete list of objectives for each session,
visit www.natco1.org.
Introductory
Course
Schedule
Afternoon refreshment break provided on Friday. Continental breakfast,
lunch and refreshment breaks provided on Saturday and Sunday.
Continental breakfast and refreshment break provided on Monday.
Friday, June 12, 2015
PLENARY SESSIONS
*
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Welcome &
Opening Remarks
Walt Nickels, RN, BSN, CCRN, CPTC, NATCO
President
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Speed Networking
Course Participants
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Walk the Walk…Transplant Timeline
Gail Stendahl, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, CCTC
Angela Ortega, RN, CPTC
Cecile Aguayo, RN, BSN
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Pearls of the Profession: Work-Life
Balance
F. Danyel Gooch, RN, MSN, CCTC
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Refreshment Break
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Investing in Donation & Transplantation P.J. Geraghty, EMT-P, CPTC, MBA
Melissa Blevins, RN, MS
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Introduction to Transplant Ethics
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Carrie Lindower, RN, MBA, CCTC, CPTC
Saturday, June 13, 2015
NATCO, The Organization
for Transplant Professionals
purchased a Laerdal
SimMan® to enhance
offerings at various NATCO
meetings to augment
the donor management
curriculum. SAM, NATCO’s
SimMan®, will be available
as part of the Procurement
Track to provide a handson experience in donor
management at the
Introductory Course.
SimMan® photo courtesy of Laerdal
Medical
Schedule subject
to change.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
TRANSPLANT TRACK
7:15 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Open Forum: Question
& Answer Session & CCTC Review
Information
Course Consultants
8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Immunology & Histocompatibility
Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Infectious Diseases in Transplantation
Joanna M. Schaenman, MD, PhD
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Transplant Evaluation
Speaker TBD
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Group Luncheon
Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Mechanisms of Rejection
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Care of the Heart Transplant Recipient
Gail Stendahl, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, CCTC
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Care of the Lung & Heart-Lung
Transplant Recipient
F. Danyel Gooch, RN, MSN, CCTC
5:00 p.m.
Networking Event
PROCUREMENT TRACK
Joanna M. Schaenman, MD, PhD
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Infectious Disease Assessment in the
Organ Donor
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break
9:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Pediatric Donor Management & Case
Study Application
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Group Luncheon
1:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Authorization for Donation: If Only They Gena Mayer, PhD, EMT-P, CPTC
All Said Yes
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Research & Tissue
5:00 p.m.
Networking Event
Thomas A. Nakagawa, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Jeremy Brown, MBA
Sunday, June 14, 2015
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
TRANSPLANT TRACK
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast Open Forum: Question & Answer Session
Course Consultants
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Skin Cancer & Transplant
Jordan B. Slutsky, MD, FAAD
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Drug Therapy in Transplantation
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Group Luncheon
12:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Liver Transplantation
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Kidney Transplantation
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Dine-Around
Jeanne Chen, PharmD
Stacee Lerret, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, CCTC
Carrie Lindower, RN, MBA, CCTC, CPTC
PROCUREMENT TRACK
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Donor & Recipient Histocompatibility
Jonah Odim, MD, PhD, MBA
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Donor Management
John Belcher, BS, CPTC
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Donor Physical Assessment
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Group Luncheon
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Open Forum: Question & Answer Session
Course Consultants
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Quality of Hospital Services
Hedi Aguiar, RN, MSN
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Refreshment Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Operating Room & Organ Preservation Techniques
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Dine-Around
Speaker TBD
Angela Ortega, RN, CPTC
Monday, June 15, 2015
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
TRANSPLANT TRACK
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast Open Forum: Question & Answer Session
Course Consultants
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Pediatric Transplantation
Gail Stendahl, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, CCTC
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Pancreas Transplantation
Douglas Lahr, BA, RN, CCTC
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Refreshment Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Organ Allocation & Recipient Issues
Lori Gore, BA
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
QAPI/CMS
Michele Walton, RN, BSN
PROCUREMENT TRACK
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Organ Allocation Donor Issues
Lori Gore, BA
9:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Dynamics of Adult Donor Management
Harry E. Wilkins III, MD, FACS, MHCM
PLENARY SESSION
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Walt Nickels, RN, BSN, CCRN, CPTC
Introductory Course Consultants
NATCO 2015 INTRODUCTORY COURSE REGISTRATION FORM
Course Registration Postmark Deadline: March 27, 2015 (early bird) or May 29, 2015 • Register Online at www.natco1.org
NATCO Introductory Course for the NEW Transplant & Procurement Professional • June 12-15, 2015
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reception.
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P.O. Box 711233
Oak Hill, VA 20171
703-483-9820
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NATCO
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703-483-9820
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Enthusiastic participation and great networking opportunities – you AREN’T the only one…
“It is a great, comprehensive course that helps gain a better understanding of the organ
donation and transplantation process from hospital development, to placement to transplant and post-transplant care!” – past course participant
This is NATCO's ONLY Introductory Education
Course scheduled for 2015!
NATCO Membership Form
Please complete the entire application form to facilitate prompt processing and to provide
material that is most appropriate for your area of practice. This form is to be used only when
applying for membership and registering for the Introductory Course.
This application for membership covers dues for 2015 (June 2015 – December 2015). All
memberships expire on Dec. 31 of each year. You will automatically receive a membership
renewal form prior to the end of the calendar year (for 2016). Membership dues are normally $165.
Type of Membership (Check if you are requesting a practitioner or colleague membership)
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PRACTITIONER MEMBERSHIP (discounted when joining with this course). Practitioner: Professionals whose primary responsibilities are
directly involved with the coordination of care for transplant candidates, recipients, donors and donor families or the facilitation of the
increase in organ donation. Practitioner members may vote, hold elected office and chair a committee/workgroup or be a member of any
standing committee.
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COLLEAGUE MEMBERSHIP (discounted when joining with this course). This membership category applies to individuals whose interests or
efforts can be construed as beneficial to NATCO but who are not practitioners. Colleague members may vote, chair a committee/workgroup
or be a member of any standing committee or workgroup.
Please enclose the Introductory Course registration form and this NATCO membership form with your payment.
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First Name M.I. Last Name
Title
Institution Name
Department Name
Address
City State
Business Telephone Cell Phone
Zip
Country
Email Address
(optional)  Male  Female Race_____________________ (optional)
My credentials should be listed as: _____________________________________
IMPORTANT:
All the information requested on this form
may be used in the NATCO Online Directory
(excluding cell phone #).
Practice
 Check here if you prefer NOT to be listed
Professional
I entered the field of transplantation on the following date: ______ /_____
month year
My primary area of practice is:
Transplant:
 Administration (Administration only, no patient care duties)
 Clinical Nurse Manager (Administration and direct patient care duties)
 Pediatrics
 Physician Assistant
 Dietetics
 Social Services  Staff Nurse
 Intensive Care Unit
 Pharmacy
 Clinical In-Patient
 Clinical Out-Patient
 Case Management
 Transplant Unit
 Nurse Practitioner
 General Nursing Unit
 Living Donation
 Pre-Transplant (Please indicate specific organs below)
 Post-Transplant (Please indicate specific organs below)
My job includes transplant of (check all that apply): Transplant Only
 heart  kidney  lung  liver  pancreas  islet cell  intestine
Procurement:
 Upper Management (Includes CEO/ED/CFO/COO/President)
 Director
 Professional Education
 Hospital Development
 Family Care
 Preservation/Perfusion
 Eye/Tissue Recovery (Includes screening and recovery)
in the online directory.
Make check or money order payable to
NATCO, or include your credit card number,
and mail with application and meeting registration to:
NATCO
P.O. Box 711233
Oak Hill, VA 20171
For more information, call the NATCO
Executive Office at 703-483-9820.
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 Organ Recovery, Donor Evaluation/Management
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