Sarah Milne

Hi my name is Sarah Milne, I have been a nurse for six years and have worked in the transplant unit in Edinburgh for the last two years. I previously worked in renal medicine and so moving to the transplant unit felt like a natural progression to me. I am currently a junior charge nurse in the unit which is the national unit for liver and pancreas transplants and the East of Scotland renal transplant centre.

The unit is a busy, dynamic and exciting place to work with new treatments and therapies regularly being introduced. For example, this year we will be commencing an islet cell transplantation programme. The nursing staff rotate between our four bedded high dependency unit and 18 bedded transplant ward. We follow a patient's journey from assessment to transplant through to discharge. Accordingly, we develop close relationships with our patients and their relatives whose stay can vary from anything from a week to a couple of months. It is therefore extremely rewarding to see a patient being discharged from the unit after transplant with a new lease of life.