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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.
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Tech Times
A toddler from Antrim, Northern Ireland is first in the world to receive an organ transplant using 3-D technology.
When Lucy Boucher was born, she suffered from heart failure, causing her kidneys to significantly lack oxygen and shut down. Lucy was then faced with a lifetime of dialysis treatments.
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Advance Healthcare Network
It is no surprise that nurse staffing is a subject of contention. After all, it is a highly complex issue regardless of the setting-acute care or outpatient. Many organizations focus solely on the inpatient issues surrounding immediate staffing concerns and fewer resources on the act of scheduling. Research shows, for instance, inpatient charge nurses spend up to 90 percent of their day on staffing-related issues.
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HCP Live
The journal Surgery last year published an opinion piece that discussed surgeons’ use of social media. Whether you love it, hate it, or are completely indifferent to social media, this piece was an enlightening read.
The authors, members of Society of University Surgeons’ Social and Legislative Committee, approached the use of social media in medicine and specifically in surgical practices as an inevitable step. They presented social media as a continuation of or surrogate for surgery’s frequent morbidity and mortality conferences.
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KE-TV
Nebraska Medicine said transplant team members recently performed the first lung transplant on a patient in need of this life-saving procedure. This marks the first time the operation has been done since Nebraska Medicine launched the program at the end of 2015.
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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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WLS-TV
A small cargo plane went off the runway at Chicago Executive Airport in north suburban Wheeling. The plane was headed to Chicago from Detroit to pick up an organ for transport.
The Falcon 20 skidded off the main north-south runway recently. The plane hit the runway's Engineered Materials Arresting System, a bed of crushable concrete designed to stop any aircraft that moves onto it. The EMAS prevented the plane from continuing onto Palatine Road.
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Cancer Therapy Advisor
A Canadian study suggested that improved strategies may be needed for cancer prevention, screening, and surveillance among solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs).
Researchers found that SOTRs may be at very high risk of skin cancer. They looked at 11 061 SOTRs and found that they had a significantly higher risk of cancer death compared with the general population.
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Health Leaders Media
A transplant surgeon says the lack of organs is "a national health crisis." Registering donors is "part of our responsibility as caregivers," says an executive of a state hospital association that has developed a registry program. After years of stagnation, organ donations are up and organizations that collect organs for transplantation and the hospitals they work with say their partnerships have been the key to getting the numbers up.
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Newsweek
Today, one of the biggest challenges is practical: moving organs from one hospital to another. Organ transplantation is a race. A harvested heart, for example, must be transplanted within four to six hours. In India, the race can be slow going. The number of cars on the road is the most glaring problem. Inner-city traffic is “horrific,” says K.R. Balakrishnan, chief of cardiac surgery at Fortis Malar Hospital in Chennai. When you’re on streets without operating lights, a left turn may take 45 minutes. In rainy weather, what is normally a 10-minute drive may take three hours.
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The Journal Times
A state senator whose husband died waiting for an organ transplant is proposing legislation to require Wisconsin companies with 50 or more full-time employees to allow up to six weeks of unpaid leave for donating an organ.
The measure, to be announced by Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, could boost donation of kidneys and parts of livers among people who are concerned about losing their jobs if they take time off for surgery and recovery to help others.
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