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 The Call for Volunteers is now open! We’re searching for volunteers to support the association by lending their time, talent, and expertise. Please review the three open positions below and apply today!
Abstract Reviewers Task Force
ITNS is searching for ITNS members interested in reviewing and scoring 2020 Annual Meeting abstract submissions. This is a great opportunity for those new and experienced, to provide insight and feedback on professional development content and educational topics presented at ITNS’s premier event.
What is the time commitment?
Most of the abstract reviews take place in late January through early February. Depending upon the number of reviewers and submitted abstracts, we anticipate a total of 3 to 5 hours.
To apply, please complete the volunteer form online.
Annual Meeting Planning Committee (AMPC)
The Annual Meeting Planning Committee is charged with assessing, planning, and evaluating the educational sessions at the ITNS Annual Meeting.
What does the AMPC do?
- Review previous annual meeting evaluation and submission forms and available gap analysis data to determine topics for future programs
- Review session abstract submissions
- Select and organize relevant sessions to the needs of most transplant nurses
- Initiate contact with invited speakers and provide staff with speaker contact information
- Assist with annual meeting activities as needed, such as moderating sessions and assisting speakers
What are the AMPC membership qualifications?
- Must be an ITNS member in good standing
- Previous experience planning an educational or professional development program is preferred
- Cannot serve concurrently on an equivalent committee or related committee with a competing organization
- Attendance at the ITNS Annual Meeting is expected
What is the time commitment?
Appointed AMPC members shall serve a two-year term. A majority of the work of the committee will occur between late January till early March. Depending upon the number of abstracts submitted, we estimate between 5 to 10 hours per month of volunteer time.
To apply, please complete the volunteer form online.
Young Professionals Committee (YPC)
ITNS is proud to announce the formation of a brand-new committee aimed the young and emerging transplant nurse community. We are incredibly excited about hearing from the next-generation of transplant nursing leaders and cultivating current and future leaders of ITNS and our profession. We are searching for four to six volunteers to kick off the committee's inaugural year!
What does the YPC do?
The core purpose of the YPC is to create and deliver relevant resources, education, and engagement opportunities for the young transplant nurse community. Examples include:
- Evaluate and make recommendations for resources for the YP community
- Support the creation and/or review of YP content via online learning, webinars, and Annual Meeting sessions
- Enhance ITNS by growing membership by generating engagement opportunities that are relevant, interesting, and impactful for the YP.
What are the YPC membership requirements?
- Must be an ITNS member in good standing
- Must be 38 years old or younger
- Ability to attend committee virtual meetings
What is the time commitment?
We estimate between one to three hours per month.
To apply, please complete the volunteer form online.
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Solid organ transplant recipients experienced a high burden of infections, more than half of which were due to bacteria, in the first year after transplant, according to an analysis of patients in the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study.
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For people with failing kidneys — and there are thousands of them in the United States — a kidney transplant offers a new lease on life. But like every other type of transplant, its success depends on taking drugs for life to suppress the immune system. Otherwise, the body begins rejecting the transplanted organ.
That’s basic medical science. So it makes no sense that Medicare covers these drugs for just 36 months for the majority of people who receive new kidneys. Because of this, many patients find themselves back where they started in a risky and frightening place: on dialysis and in need of a new kidney that for many will never come.
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While the future looks promising from a technical and scientific perspective, it’s far from clear how bioprinting and its products will be regulated. Such uncertainty can be problematic for manufacturers and patients alike, and could prevent bioprinting from living up to its promise.
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Modern Healthcare
ICU nurses are charged with caring for patients until their final breaths. Yet, somewhere in between, they’re expected to call their local organ procurement organization, or OPO, to alert them of a likely death. That’s a CMS requirement: OPOs must strike agreements with hospitals, under which hospitals notify them of every imminent patient death.
“The timing is so important,” said Mike Breen Eckhard, chief nursing informatics officer at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Health System, based in Tyler, Texas. A hospital has to alert the OPO with enough time so that, if a patient’s organs are deemed eligible for donation, a procurement team has time to recover them while they’re still viable for a possible transplant.
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Massachusetts General Hospital via Medical Xpress
A team of surgeons and specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital is announcing an achievement in transplant surgery, having recently performed the largest number of adult heart transplants in the country using what are known as Donation after Circulatory Death donor hearts. The five transplants also include the first surgery of this kind for the New England region.
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The Telegraph
Donor livers can now be kept alive for a week and repaired using a new machine which charities say has the potential to "dramatically improve" organ transplantation in Britain.
Currently livers intended for transplant typically survive for only about eight to ten hours on ice, or 24 hours if hooked up to a special perfusion device, severely limiting how far they can be transported.
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Although expedited placement could ameliorate stagnant kidney utilization, precisely identifying difficult‐to‐place organs is crucial to mitigate potential harms associated with this policy. Existing algorithms have only leveraged structured data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; however, detailed, free text case information about a donor exists. No known research exists about the utility of these data.
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