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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!
FierceHealthcare
"Nurse intuition" doesn't sound scientific, but it could play a key role in critical-care outcomes, according to a small study published in DovePress
Nurses have incorporated the idea of basing care decisions on their intuition into nursing discipline for decades, according to the authors, but educational institutions have largely ignored the concept in recent years.
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Las Vegas Sun
There are more than 120,000 people waiting for organs in the United States. More than 100,000 of these individuals need kidneys. Kidneys are unique because most people have two, and it is possible for healthy individuals to donate one to someone in need. But there aren’t enough donated organs for everyone waiting, so clearly changes are needed.
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Advance Healthcare Network
A new report published by the Nurses Service Organization, a division of Aon Affinity and CNA, finds that malpractice claims against nurses are on the rise.
The report, "Nurse Professional Liability Exposures: 2015 Claim Report Update," said that more than $90 million was paid in nurses' malpractice claims over a five-year period. The nurses included registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and licensed vocational nurses.
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Fox News
The man who held the Guinness World Record for longest surviving heart transplant patient died, 33 years after his life-saving operation.
John McCafferty, 73, underwent the transplant on October 20, 1982 at Harefield Hospital in west London, BBC News reported. At 39, he was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition that leads to scarring of the heart wall and muscle damage. The heart becomes weakened and enlarged and is unable to pump efficiently.
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Inquisitr
A humble cotton candy machine is about to revolutionize the field of tissue engineering and build artificial organs, paving the way forward for organ transplantation, research suggests.
Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University in Tennesse, has developed a process using cotton candy machines, to spin out networks of tiny threads comparable to capillaries. His goal is to eventually build fiber networks that can be used as templates to create full-scale artificial organs. His work, along with that of his colleagues, was published in an article by the Advanced Healthcare Materials journal.
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The Lincoln Journal Star
An Omaha man has been the first to receive a lung transplant at the Nebraska Medical Center in nearly 20 years.
Phil Sauvageau, 58, who was seriously ill with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, received the lungs through a six-hour surgery that began around 4:45 a.m.
The Nebraska Medical Center is one of a few U.S. institutions to offer all solid-organ transplants under one roof. It started performing lung transplants in 1995, but stopped in 1998 after the departure of one surgeon and the death of another.
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By Don Rosato
 In terms of the future, experts say medical packaging will be dramatically different by the end of the next decade. Medical device and pharmaceutical packaging will become easier to use, less costly to produce and provide much better protection in the future. These changes will strongly impact the materials used in medical packaging. Many forces in drug delivery methods, advances in interactive medical packaging and legislation are already laying the groundwork for this transformation.
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Total Croatia News
Croatia is the leading country in the world in the number of organ donors and the number of kidney and liver transplantations. It is in the second place in the number of heart transplants and is following all the best trends in the world in bone marrow and cornea transplantations. These fantastic results were announced at the scientific conference Transplantation in Croatia – Current Situation and Prospects for the Future, which was organized by the Institute for Clinical and Transplantation Immunology and Molecular Medicine in Rijeka headed by Daniel Rukavina, reports Novlist.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 The rural healthcare landscape continues to occupy many minds as concerns over care of the folks who occupy these spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. According to a new report from iVantage Health Analytics, 673 rural hospitals across 42 states are vulnerable to closure. This is on top of the more than 60 rural hospitals that have closed since 2010. The iVantage report compiles hospital strength index that is based on data about financial stability, patients and quality indicators.
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The Guardian
A bioprinter — a three dimensional printer that uses living cells in suspension as its ink, and injection nozzles that can follow a CT scan blueprint — brings the dream of transplant surgery a step nearer: a bespoke body part grown in a laboratory and installed by a robot surgeon.
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