This topic will include an overview of the need for organ donation and will touch on donation statistics at the national level AND here at DHMC. The hour will highlight a panel presentation of various transplant recipients and donor families, who will share very personal stories about their journeys.

• Roxanne M. Taylor, MSN, RN, CCTC - Transplant Administrator, DHMC
• Kerrie Casey - Hospital Relations Coordinator, New England Donor Services
• Transplant Recipients & Donor Families

There is no fee for this activity, but to receive contact hours you must register online and complete the online Attestation and Evaluation form (you must register to access this form).

At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants will be able to discuss the experience of organ donation and transplantation from the perspective of the patient/family.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity carries 1.0 contact hour.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock will award contact hour(s) for successful completion. In order to receive full contact hour credit for this Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) activity, you must:

• View the entire presentation
• Complete the online Attestation of Attendance & Evaluation Form (you must register to access).

The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for Nursing Grand Rounds – Stories of Hope: A Panel Presentation of Personal Experiences have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.

*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.

Provider contact information for questions of the activity or regarding accreditation: 

Director of Continuing Nursing Education, Center for Nursing Excellence
Center for Learning and Professional Development
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
clpd.support@hitchcock.org