ILEB Offers Technician Training Course
Last year, the Indiana Lions Eye Bank sponsored a training course for technicians. The goal of the course was to train new remote technicians to provide support in our outlying service areas.
The course included lectures on eye anatomy, donor screening, and corneal storage and transport. The trainees also spent each afternoon learning and practicing the surgical prep and corneal excision procedures.
Teachers were Robert Carpenter, Technical Program Manager; Pamela Joyce Jones, Technologist; Robert Osborne, Hospital Development and Technologist; and John Stewart, Vice President for Training, TBI/Tissue Banks International. TBI is the national non-profit network of vision, and ILEB is one of its members.
Participants in the course included Betsy and Clarence Reed from Anderson, Michelle Wright from Summitville, Mary Fatyol from Lowell, Jessica and Darin Lipp from Frankfort, Blair Peebles from Carmel, Doris Gilbert from Indianapolis, Rhonda Wassom from Lynn, Jeffrey Lain from Elkhart, and Monica O'Toole who came from Dayton, Ohio and will work with the Lions Eye Bank of West Central Ohio.
Fr ont row (l to r): Mary Fatyol, Betsy Reed, Rhonda Wassom, Michelle Wright, John Stewart and Robert Osborne. Back row (l to r): Jeffery Lain, Monica O'Toole (from Dayton, OH), Clarence Reed, arin Lipp, Blair Peebles, Jessica Lipp and Doris Gilbert.
TBI's John Stewart demonstrates corneal excision techniques
to the class.
Dukes Memorial Hospital
Dukes Memorial Hospital is one of the smaller hospitals in Indiana. However they have excelled in corneal donation since beginning routine referral two years ago. Emergency Room Director Carol Kunkle, RN, and staff are very positive about the program and what it has to offer grieving families. Carol also looks forward to the consent workshop that Dukes will host in April. It promises to be an excellent learning experience for nurses, giving them the information they need when approaching families about giving the gift of sight.
ILEB'S Rob Carpernter observes Betsy Reed performing a corneal excision.
