​For Assistant Nurse Clinician Sivaranjanee, caring for organ recipients post-transplant has been very fulfilling. “We are aware of how precious the transplanted organ is to the recipient,” said Sivaranjanee.

“As transplant nurses, we need to be very patient and understanding when we educate patients on their recovery process. They may not retain information as quickly especially when they experience extreme stress and become overly fearful about falling sick.”  

One of her most memorable patients was a living donor renal recipient whom she cared for almost nine months. He experienced rejection and delayed graft function with many complications that could have resulted in removal of the donated kidney.

Throughout his stay in the hospital, he was not allowed to leave the ward, the nurses became his confidants and a second family who comforted him. “We were all overjoyed when he gradually recovered!  Till today, he would drop by the ward to visit us whenever he comes for his check-ups.”