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The International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) are proud to announce the new edition of Scope and Standards of Practice: Transplant Nursing, 2nd Edition. Order your copy today for only $27.95 in the ITNS Online Store. ITNS members receive a special discount!
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Amazon has a large variety of gifts that are perfect for Valentine's Day including electronics, jewelry, clothing, and more. Support ITNS when you shop for Valentine's Day gifts. A portion of your purchase made on AmazonSmile will be donated to ITNS. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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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
PR Newswire
Millions of Americans will show their love with heart-shaped candy and cards on Valentine's Day. But Feb. 14 is also National Organ Donor Day, bringing awareness to what a heart and other organ donations can do to save lives. National Donor Day is supported by organ donation and healthcare nonprofits across the country and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It's a day to recognize those who have given the gift of donation, received a donation, and are currently waiting to receive a donation.
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FierceHealthcare
There's a twist in the relatively new area of hospital residencies for registered nurses: Training new nursing school graduates in specialty nursing fields.
One such program can be found at Brandon Regional Hospital in Florida, Hospitals & Health Networks reported. The hospital's nurse residency program provides 16 weeks of intensive training in critical care and other specialty areas.
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U.S. News & World Report
It's common for transplant centers to reject donor livers for the sickest patients on the transplant waiting list, a new study suggests.
That means those patients have a higher risk of death while they wait for a lifesaving transplant, the researchers found. The new study reviewed 23,000 donor liver offers to 13,255 U.S. patients on the liver transplant waiting list between May 2007 and June 2013. It found that only 37 percent of the organ offers were accepted for the sickest patients on the list.
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RT
The future is here ... well, almost: human organ transplants, printed on 3-D printers, could be functioning in 15 years, according to the vice president of Russia's Skolkovo science and research initiative, Kirill Kaem.
His certainty is based on the successful transplant of a thyroid gland — produced on a Russian 3-D printer — into a lab mouse last November.
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DNA
After gaining a fair bit of expertise in the transplant of heart, liver and kidneys, three city hospitals are now looking forward to transplanting other organs like pancreas and intestines. While one of the hospitals have already got the permission from the state health department, two others are expecting the final nod soon.
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FierceHealthcare
A positive work environment is essential to whether experienced nurses will stay at a hospital, according to a new study published in Nurse Ethics.
The research, conducted by four nursing educators from the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas at Tyler, examined factors that may explain why a major academic medical center was having difficulty retaining mid-career nurses.
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Modern Healthcare
A fourth transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection during a mold outbreak at a western Pennsylvania hospital has died, officials said.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center confirmed the death of Che DuVall, a 70-year-old retired glass cutter who was diagnosed with the infection in September, a month after undergoing a double lung transplant.
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CNN
It could mean the difference between life and death for more than 1,000 people in the United States each year.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have been given the okay to become the first hospital in the country to perform HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants. "This is an unbelievably exciting day for our hospital and our team, but more importantly for patients living with HIV and end-stage organ disease," said Dorry Segev, associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "For these individuals, this means a new chance at life."
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