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What Makes My Transplant Nurse Amazing
Nominations Due Monday, Feb. 29, 2016
The Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest allows patients to nominate an ITNS transplant nurse who has made a difference in their lives. The winning essay will be featured in a future issue of the ITNS Insider. In addition, the nurse will receive a recognition award, a letter sent to his or her supervisor, and acknowledgement on the ITNS website and in an ITNS E-Updates membership e-mail.
Download the Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest Entry Form
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ITNS has one remaining $2,500 grant available. The purpose of this grant is to encourage qualified ITNS members to advance the body of transplant knowledge. This grant may be used to support research projects, a systematic review of the literature, a meta-analysis, a quality improvement initiative or a program evaluation project. Additional information and the grant application form are available on the ITNS website: http://www.itns.org/researchgrants.html
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Email your chapter events to scarbone@itns.org to get it listed on the ITNS calendar. This is a free membership benefit and a great way to promote chapter events! We are also happy to include your chapter events here in the ITNS Insider! You can also email scarbone@itns.org to request ITNS membership brochures to pass out at your next chapter event!
Louisville Business Journal
Can an employer tax credit encourage living organ and bone marrow donations in Kentucky?
That's the idea behind HB19, known less formally as the Living Organ and Bone Marrow Donor Assistance Act of 2016. The bill has been pre-filed for consideration during the 2016 Kentucky General Assembly, which convened this week.
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Nurse.com
One area in which job seeking is particularly difficult is when the violation that leads to discipline is due to chemical dependence of some kind. Miller and other researchers, in their published article, “Hiring Nurses Re-entering the Workforce After Chemical Dependence”, identify some of the types of violations that can take place: drug diversion from the employer; a positive drug screen for a substance not documented as being prescribed; illegal use of controlled substances; and the use of habit-forming medications or controlled substances or alcohol impairment.
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Play-it Health designs and delivers comprehensive adherence solutions to encourage healthy behaviors. We provide a personalized customer interface comprised of reminder/education/reward apps, games, and animated eBooks. We couple this with customized reporting and analytics, powered by telemed. Finally, we offer strategic advice for implementation, leveraging the strengths of each user/institution.
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News-Medical
Year-old changes to the system that distributes deceased donor kidneys nationwide have significantly boosted transplantation rates for black and Hispanic patients on waiting lists, reducing racial disparities inherent in the previous allocation formula used for decades, according to results of research led by a Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon.
The research, described online in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, also showed other "winners and losers" in the new system.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 Short people have lower odds of getting a lung transplant, according to a recent report by Columbia University Medical Center. Researchers found that lung transplant candidates with short stature are more likely to experience long waiting times and higher rates of death and respiratory failure while on the waiting list compared to candidates of average height. Since women are generally shorter than are men, this disparity puts females at particular risk.
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Modern Healthcare
For residents living in rural or poor urban areas, access to quality healthcare can be hard to come by. Medical deserts, or populated regions more than 60 minutes away from the nearest critical-care hospital, are a growing problem across the country as hospitals in rural and poor urban communities have a difficult time finding quality specialized healthcare providers.
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Medscape
Now that they are living longer, solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) face an increased risk of dying from cancer.
The incidence of cancer deaths in SORTs is 2.84 times higher than that of the general population, according to a study published online in JAMA Oncology. "Our study represents, to our knowledge, the largest population-based study evaluating cancer mortality from post-transplant de novo and recurrent malignant neoplasms in all SOTRs," the researchers write in their discussion.
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AJMC.com
Solid-organ transplants increase the risk of death due to cancer — irrespective of gender or the type of transplant — compared with the general population, a study published in JAMA Oncology has found. Cancer was the second leading cause of death in solid-organ transplant recipients (SOTRs).
For senior author Nancy N. Baxter, MD, PhD, chief of general surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and faculty at the University of Toronto, this was not an expected finding.
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By Christina Thielst
 Social media is a powerful communication and connection tool that is being applied in healthcare environments for a range of purposes and audiences. Despite its many benefits, it does present some risks — the most common concern being the posting of private health information causing a HIPAA violation and legal liability. This points to the importance of having policies that specifically address social media and balance the risk of liability of the employer with the rights of employees.
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Scoop
There were 53 deceased organ donors in 2015, the largest number ever in New Zealand. This is a 15 percent increase from the 46 donors in 2014 and a 47 percent increase from the 36 donors in 2013.
These 53 deceased organ donors donated organs (heart, lungs, liver, kidney or pancreas) to 158 transplant recipients in 2015, a 14 percent increase from the 138 recipients in 2014.
In 2015 there were also 78 live donors who donated a kidney or a part of the liver to 78 recipients.
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