Patti Mulvania is Senior Faculty and a founding member of the Gift of Life Institute. She has worked with Gift of Life Donor Program for over 26 years in various roles including Administrator on Call and Director of Clinical Staff Education. She is the author and architect of Gift of Life Donor Programs’ and Gift of Life Institutes’ Dual Advocacy (not sure how to but we should insert copyright symbol here) Family Donation Conversation Models and has taught and helped OPO’s and Organ Donation Agencies throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia integrate Dual Advocacy into their practice standards for over 18 years. Prior to her work in the donation field, Patti worked and served in leadership roles in the emergency department, homecare, and hospice settings.
This webinar will highlight the impact of referral timing and assessing family readiness to make a donation decision. We will review the donation conversation in relation to evidence-based research. Experiential-based practices will be compared and contrasted to prompt group discussion in examining what OPOs have learned from research, where improvements can be made and where more research can offer benefit to both potential donor families and recipients. Ways of implementing evidence-based and standards of practice into organizational processes will be discussed along with how OPOs and hospital staff may best work together to support mutually familiar and understood standards of practice to assure every potential donor family has the opportunity to make a timely and fully informed donation decision.