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By Keith Carlson
 The discussion over the preferred entry-level degree for professional nurses has been ongoing since 1964, when the American Nurses Association came out in favor of the BSN. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation mandating that all new nurses in the Empire State earn a BSN within 10 years of initial licensure. Now the conversation is heating up again, and nurses everywhere are taking notice.
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Medscape Commentary (free login required)
Solid organ transplantation, although lifesaving for patients with end-stage renal, liver, or heart disease, requires chronic immunosuppressive therapy that increases the risk for cancer, including lymphoma and skin cancer. In this context, skin cancers arising in organ transplant recipients are more frequent, more aggressive, and more likely to be malignant melanomas.
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Medscape (free login required)
A reader asks, "Is it a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) if a group of patients who were in a class together are social media friends with the clinical staff? Seldom — maybe never — does anyone discuss anything medically personal. It's more of a support group that is just keeping in touch and perhaps sharing something they found on the Internet, such as a positive meme or letting others know if someone in the group has passed away."
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Medical Xpress
New national research led by Jonathan Lass of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has found that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days before transplantation surgery to correct eye problems in people with diseases of the cornea. This is four days longer than the current conventional maximum of seven days in the United States.
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Medical Xpress
Over the past several years, devices outside the body have been used to evaluate human lungs donated for organ transplant before the lungs are transplanted. In the future, lung restoration may be used to treat donated lungs to make them healthier, so they could be viable for a transplant.
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Nurse.com
Jessica Bissen loves going to school. She’s not taking classes, but she serves as a private duty nurse for three kids in the Omaha area. She spends one day a week with each of the children at their school, and sometimes at their homes.
“We are taking care of their medical issues foremost,” says Bissen, a registered nurse who works for the home healthcare department of the Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.
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ScienceDaily
A working group of human microbiome researchers and legal experts developed what they say is an improved regulatory process for fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) which will result in better outcomes for patients and could serve as a model for other countries contemplating regulatory frameworks for FMT
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The New York Times
Jake Creviston, a nurse practitioner, has been repeatedly mistaken for a doctor.
Adam White says the veterans he cares for as a student nurse at the V.A. hospital feel comfortable around him because “I’m a big burly guy with a beard.”
Glenn Fletcher, after being laid off from a lumber mill during the financial crisis, found a new career in nursing. And with it, “a really good feeling putting your head on the pillow realizing you’ve helped other people.”
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