    
Guiding Principles:
● Creating a cultural
sensitive environment that supports the values and traditions of Islam.
● The predictable patient
care across the health care continent.
● Evidence based practice,
leadership, and education.
● Recruiting and retaining
staff who are committed to excellence in practice.
● Effective and efficient
utilization of resources.
● The promotion and
development of profession of nursing in Saudi Arabia.
● Staff development which
contribute to optimum patient outcomes.
● Partnership with the
patients, their families and the community in providing health education
programs.
● Effective and innovative
leadership
Focus:
Located at the second floor of
the Out-Patient building, the Renal Transplant Nurse Clinic (RTNC) initially was
managed as a nephrology/transplant clinic from within the Surgical Clinic of
Ambulatory Care Nursing (ACN). It was separated into a new Renal Transplant
Nurse Clinic under the management of Medical Clinical Operation in 2001. In 2002
it was “reunited” with ACN of Nursing Affairs division on February 2003
officially amalgamated under the Head Nurse of the Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)
Unit. Prior to this the RTNC had been further sub-divided into the ‘Pre’ and
‘Post’ renal transplant clinics during the late 2002; however, the RTNC nursing
management remains directly under the supervision of the Head Nurse of the PD
Unit.
The RTNC is a hospital based
transplant center providing non-emergent care for both adult and pediatrics
clients requiring kidney transplantation. The Renal Transplant Program (RTP) has
recently expanded its services to include those clients requiring pancreatic
transplantation. The nursing staffs of the RTNC provide Pre and Post
transplantation evaluation and management of clients.
The staffs are also pivotal in
the coordination of a multidisciplinary approach to assuring optimal care and
service for their clients/care-givers. Renal Transplant Coordinators are
responsible for further specialized work-up and its subsequent presentation, via
collaborative review conferences, for clients’ identification and prioritization
in being added to Cadaveric waiting lists. A Nurse Clinical Coordinator position
has recently been enacted to accommodate the identified specialized health
education needs specific to transplantation clients/care-givers. It is
anticipated that this position will also be able to accommodate the future need
of transplant coordinator and case management for the pancreatic transplant
program.
The volume of clients have
gradually increased since the first living-related kidney transplantation in
1981 and now comprises and identified need for transplantation of over 7000
people in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Of these, 56 are presently on the active
waiting list for transplantation. There are 20 clients transplanted in a
cadaveric donor and 84 clients transplanted in a living related donor, a total
of 104 clients (1 peds) received kidney transplantation in the 2003 year period.
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