Introduction: Caring for patients with organ transplants means providing special care aimed at protecting, promoting, and optimizing health. Organ transplant treatment is multidisciplinary and requires the implementation of tertiary knowledge and skills that ensure optimal treatment outcomes: significantly reduce overall complications, speed recovery, increase patient safety, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce treatment costs. Liver transplantation is the only effective method for treating acute and chronic liver failure. Purpose: Demonstration of the role of the work of a nurse with special knowledge in a multidisciplinary team: the role of the use and implementation of special care standards that include the ethical and conceptual basis of organ transplant care. Special standards cover the use of advanced knowledge in the areas of: nutritional treatment in the early and late post-transplant period, promotion of appropriate physical exercise, learning of early independence after transplantation, self-care learning, detection and prevention of aggravation of behavioural disorders, psychosocial diseases and environmental factors. could affect the deterioration of the patient’s condition after organ transplantation. Methods: We used a descriptive method of work with a review of the literature of Slovenian and foreign databases, in the field of liver transplantation, patient education and the impact of acquired knowledge on quality of life and complications after liver transplantation. We reviewed and analyzed the professional and scientific literature in the following bibliographic databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, COBISS and ResearchGate. The search strategy was based on the use of the following terms: education, liver transplant, nurse, patient, rehabilitation, physical activity (PA), nutrition. Results: Patient education does not only require learning regarding care and nursing, but also guidance on proper nutrition (diet), regular physical activity, reintegration into society (family, friends, work) and psychosocial adaptation to changes after liver transplantation and working ability. The attitude of nurse towards acquired knowledge is important, as a patient, who does not have all the necessary information may have a poorer quality of life. It is important for patient to self-care, which is crucial in overall recovery and, above all, taking prescribed drug therapy according to medical plan. The role of the nurse in a multidisciplinary team is multi-level: educating the patient after a liver transplant and taking care of fast and appropriate communication between the operator and other team members. In this way, it provides immediate and appropriate action in the event of early complications after liver transplantation and reduces and prevents them accordingly. Conclusion: Development of an application or educational courses (e.g. online academy) where nurses may have an opportunity to continuously upgrade their knowledge could increase quality of education and patient’s quality of life after liver transplantation in Slovenia.
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