effort, cognitively and behaviourally, to manage demands (8). Graft rejection might be viewed as an external demand for all OTRs, but each OTR has different personal resources to cope with this demand. A person-centred nursing approach has the person’s own experiences as its starting point and the transplant nurse strives to understand behaviours and symptoms from the perspec-tive of the person. Understanding patterns of coping in relation to the threat of the risk of graft rejection might guide the transplant nurse in her clinical counselling at the out patient clinic, to move away from general assumptions and instead tailor the nursing interventions to the individual and also involve the OTR as an active collaborative partner.