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ITNS
The Annual Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA, USA will be here before you know it! Please consider nominating a colleague for an ITNS award. All nominations must be received by May 31, 2016.
Transplant Nursing Excellence Award: To recognize an exemplary nurse (RN or equivalent) for their care of transplant patients and their embodiment of the ITNS mission and values. .
Friend of Transplant Nursing Award: To recognize an individual outside the nursing profession who has supported the efforts of ITNS and made an impact in the field of transplant nursing.
Please note: Both the nominator and the nominee must be current ITNS members. The full award requirements and the nomination forms can be found on the ITNS website.
ITNS
Transplant Nurses Day is April 20, 2016. Celebrate ITNS Transplant Nurses Day by purchasing tote bags, hot/cold tumbler cups, or stylus pens for your staff. View the products and place your order today! Check out all of the Transplant Nurses Day resources on the website and stay tuned for more information about the essay contest!
Advance Healthcare Network
According to the World Health Organization, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth every minute of every day, which equates to approximately 529,000 deaths per year globally. The United States ranks worse in maternal mortality than 49 other countries, with postpartum hemorrhage (or excessive bleeding) being the leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S. — despite being preventable most of the time.
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Atlanta Business Chronicle
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta appointed Dr. René Romero its new chief of solid organ transplant services.
Since 1999, Romero has served as medical director of pediatric liver transplants at Children's and clinical director of pediatric hepatology at Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as medical director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program and the program director of the Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program at Children's.
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Nebraska.TV
Every three minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and while bone marrow transplants have proven to be an effective treatment for many of these cancers, seven in 10 patients don't have a match within their family.
Only four in 10 people who need a bone marrow transplant ever get one, partly because finding a match is so difficult. There are 10 markers in the blood of donor and recipient that must match, and each marker has thousands of variations.
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MedPage Today
Barbara Jacobs, RN, MSN, would like you to know she has the two cutest grandchildren in the U.S.
"It's a fact," the CNO at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland, told Jennifer Thew. "Other people think they do, but I actually do. I actually have them." Her adoration for these two little boys is not exactly a well-kept secret. Why, you may wonder, should we as healthcare providers care about her love for these little guys? Well, because she does.
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
The long-ballyhooed revolution in healthcare comes down to money. U.S. spending on healthcare is projected to balloon within a decade, from the total $3.1 trillion a year recorded for 2014, to $5.5 trillion by 2024, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Or, to look at it another way, healthcare will rise to 20 percent of spending in the U.S. economy in 2024 from 17.7 percent in 2014.
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FierceHealthcare
A culture of safety in surgical units appears to significantly reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) after colon operations, according to a study published online by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Of 12 safety culture factors studied, teamwork across units most consistently reduced SSI infections, researchers found. Positive impacts ranged from 24 percent to 49 percent, according to an announcement from the American College of Surgeons.
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ABC News
Johns Hopkins Medical Center, which has been on the forefront of transplants, is planning a dramatic new one — the first penis transplant in the United States.
The goal is to help some of the 1300 veterans wounded in the genital area during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Chronicle Live
Facing a race against time, the number of people waiting for a heart transplant at Freeman Hospital has hit its highest level in a decade.
A total of 60 adults were waiting for a heart transplant at the specialist Newcastle center in March this year.
One of these patients was classed as needing them urgently.
This was the highest figure in 10 years of data published by NHS Blood and Transplant.
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OUP blog
While myriad forces are changing the face of contemporary healthcare, one could argue that nothing will change the way medicine is practiced, more than current advances in technology. Indeed, technology is changing the entire world at a remarkable rate — with mobile phones, music players, emails, databases, laptop computers, and tablets transforming the way we work, play, and relax.
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