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By co-founder and Past-President of ITNS, Nancy Stitt
It is with a heavy heart, we have learned that transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas E. Starzl has passed away peacefully in his sleep, just one week shy of his 91st birthday. I am who I have become in my transplant nursing career due to Dr. Starzl, being a nurse "at the right place and the right time" at UPMC when Dr. Starzl began the liver transplant program in January 1981.
My passion for transplantation began due to his passion and dedication transplantation and transplant patient care. Becoming the ICU Liver Transplant Nurse Educator, and following the lead of transplant physicians starting their own professional liver transplant organizations, Kandy Yarris Newell and I were inspired to co-found ITNS — the first transplant NURSING organization in 1992. Dr. Starzl would be our first keynote speaker for ITNS on March 12, 1992 and would both introduce our 25th keynote speaker Dr. John Fung this past October as well as accept the 2016 ITNS Friends of Transplant Nursing Award. I just saw him a couple of weeks ago ... we chatted, he was in great health and spirit, wished me well with a big hug. I'm beyond sad. He was not only a great surgeon and researcher, but an incredible, caring human being. He will be missed.
ITNS
Do you need CEPTC credits to renew or apply for your CCTC/CPTC/CTP/CCTN? Look no further! ITNS has 23 session recordings that you can download and listen to at your convenience. Earn up to 16 CEPTC credits and learn from the comfort of your home. Want to know more? Look through the session catalogue here and get started today! Questions? Contact the ITNS team at info@itns.org.
ITNS
 All nominations must be received by 5 April 2017. Please note: Both the nominator and the nominee must be current ITNS members. The full award requirements and the nomination form can be found on the ITNS website.
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.
ITNS
 Celebrated every year on the second Thursday of March, World Kidney Day (WKD) is the global awareness campaign that aims at increasing awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our health and reduce the impact of kidney disease and its associated problems worldwide. Today, we invite everyone to get up and get moving to celebrate their kidneys. "#move4kidneys" is a symbolic gesture to remember that kidneys are vital organs and that they should be taken care of.
ITNS
The Transplant Nursing Symposium will bring together staff, nurses, students and many more for an inspiring educational experience. Earn up to 28 contact hours as you attend sessions directed at your interest and level of practice.
An attendee of the 2016 symposium said, "It was great to experience the camaraderie among transplant professionals. Whether you're a newcomer to the field or hold many years of experience, I have found that transplant nurses are welcoming of everyone. That is very special!"
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
John Rimmer didn't want to let Ann Jenkins leave on Thursday without saying goodbye.
He maneuvered his wheelchair toward hers in a sun-drenched room at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center.
"Can we get close enough?" he asked. "I gotta give her a hug."
Rimmer had discovered, just minutes before, that it was Jenkins who donated the kidney he received in a transplant this week. "Thank you, dear. So much," he said, teary-eyed, as they embraced. "May God bless you the rest of your life."
Jenkins had hoped to give her kidney to a church friend, Beth DeVoe, but they weren't a good match. So she blindly offered the organ to anyone who needed it.
Rimmer and DeVoe were part of a five-way kidney exchange at Ohio State.
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Fox News
Patients with mental disabilities are regularly turned down for life-saving procedures despite federal law prohibiting such bias, a Washington Post report published March 4 reveals. At the center of the potential ethical dilemma is Paul Corby, a 27-year-old who needs a life-prolonging heart transplant but has been rejected from programs due to "psychiatric issues, autism, the complexity of the process ... and the unknown and unpredictable effect of steroids on behavior."
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Drexel University College of Medicine via Medical Xpress
It's been long recognized that the immunosuppressant drugs patients are prescribed after an organ transplant come with a fair share of dangerous side effects—including squamous cell carcinoma and other types of skin disease.But despite advances to improve skin cancer prevention for these patients, little is known about how skin conditions affect African-American, Asian and Hispanic transplant recipients. That's a problem, considering that more than half of the 120,000 Americans on the waiting list for organs are nonwhite, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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By Keith Carlson
 Nurses use social media just like any other members of the workforce. As a nurse, how you use social media can have an impact on personal branding, so it's important to maintain awareness of your virtual presence and your position within the online world of professional nursing. When you apply for a nursing position, you can rest assured that most nurse hiring managers or human resources professionals will use Google to assess your online presence.
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Healio
Investigators of this early follow-up study found solid organ transplant patient survivorship was not affected by total knee arthroplasty. "However, [solid organ transplant] SOT patients may have a higher risk of perioperative complications and a lower implant survivorship than the general population of TKA patients at midterm follow-up," the researchers wrote.
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HealthDay News
Survival rates for children who get kidney transplants have improved significantly over the last half-century, a new study finds.
"The outlook for infants and children with end-stage kidney disease was once dismal, with poor survival rates after transplant. There has been great progress in pediatric kidney transplantation, and now the patient survival rate is almost 100 percent," said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Srinath Chinnakotla.
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Medscape
Kidney transplantation is superior to long-term dialysis for the management of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) because it provides greater long-term survival and better quality of life. Nevertheless, there is an ever-increasing gap between the need for transplantation and the availability of donor kidneys, with more than 120 000 patients currently on the deceased donor waitlist in the United States alone.
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