Advanced practice: implications for clinical and procurement transplant coordinators.

What is exciting about the "buzz" is that it is encouraging continuing education and knowledge acquisition. Advanced practitioners, including clinical and procurement transplant coordinators, have recognized the need to continually enhance their knowledge base, formally and informally. Whether procurement or clinical, transplant coordinators function in expanded roles by virtue of their knowledge and skills. They have been practicing at that high level with specialized, complex skills and knowledge for at least 30 years. Advanced practice is what procurement and clinical transplant coordinators do. We have met the advanced practice transplant coordinator, and we are him or her.