Certified Family Service Coordinator: A model for professional practice and recognition

The use of the Family Service Coordinator is still a relative newcomer to the organ procurement/transplantation field. Since no comprehensive training and recognition program exists, Lifesharing, A Donate Life Organization, decided to develop a Certified Family Service Coordinator program. We defined the goals of the program as 1) to improve the care we provide to our families and increase consent for organ donation; 2) to streamline and standardize our best practices; 3) to learn new skills and improve individual understanding and practice; 4) to share our own wealth of experience; and 5) to provide professional certification and recognition. In addition, given the limitations of time and resources that affect most organ procurement organizations, we wanted to see if a comprehensive training program could be developed using resources that were easily and inexpensively acquired on the Internet.

Certified Family Service Coordinator: A model for professional practice and recognition

The use of the Family Service Coordinator is still a relative newcomer to the organ procurement/transplantation field. Since no comprehensive training and recognition program exists, Lifesharing, A Donate Life Organization, decided to develop a Certified Family Service Coordinator program. We defined the goals of the program as 1) to improve the care we provide to our families and increase consent for organ donation; 2) to streamline and standardize our best practices; 3) to learn new skills and improve individual understanding and practice; 4) to share our own wealth of experience; and 5) to provide professional certification and recognition. In addition, given the limitations of time and resources that affect most organ procurement organizations, we wanted to see if a comprehensive training program could be developed using resources that were easily and inexpensively acquired on the Internet.

Spectrum Handover Strategies for Cognitive Femtocell Networks

Cognitive femtocell is a promising technology for the next generation wireless networks to improve the efficiency of spectrum utilization, coverage, and to attain higher data rates for indoor communications. In this chapter, the new Cognitive Femtocell Switching Unit (CFSU) is proposed to support handover management for 10-20 cognitive femtocells as a local geographical cluster. Thus, CFSU acts as a service coordinator between femtocells and macrocell areas to improve spectrum utilization and coexistence. Then, the chapter presents solutions for spectrum handover to achieve guaranteed quality of radio service, spectrum utilization, and enable an excellent local handover management to reduce unnecessary handovers between femtocell base stations. The challenges and solutions that are presented in this chapter have the ability to maintain services by evaluating the requested quality of services.