ISMETT devotes special attention to nursing training. The Transformational Model is a training model adopted for the first time in Italy by ISMETT and UPMC Italy. It aims at introducing and creating specialized figures with the goal of effectively training staff in the various aspects of transplant medicine and therapies.

The model envisages the creation of a Nursing Education Department whose principal task consists in managing and organizing ad hoc training both for new hires and nurses who wish to become coordinators, and introducing new professional figures like Transplant Coordinators, Research Coordinators, Educators and Tutors. These are individual training pathways aimed at improving the health care standards provided to patients and creating an organizational model focusing on the nurse as the facility’s pivotal figure.

The training model adopted at ISMETT has allowed many Sicilian nurses to spend a period of training in Pittsburgh working side by side with American professionals within the framework of an ad hoc training program.