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Enhance your knowledge and skills as a transplant nurse as you earn up to 28 contact hours! Earn the valuable continuing education (CE), CEPTC, and pharmacology credits you need.
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ITNS
 ITNS is pleased to announce that Amanda Chaney, A.R. N. P, MSN, has been selected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). There are over 220,000 nurse practitioners currently practicing in the U.S. Of these, approximately 70,000 are AANP members and 630 are Fellows. Amanda joins a distinguished group of leaders whose scholarly and forward thinking contributions have led to meaningful improvements to healthcare and the Nurse Practitioner role. AANP Fellows impact national and global health by engaging recognized Nurse Practitioners to lead new initiatives and support the AANP mission. The FAANP program also provides a forum to extend and enhance Fellows’ efforts to mentor and to facilitate leadership development of Nurse Practitioners.
Amanda, a Nurse Practitioner at the Mayo Clinic, Florida, is on the ITNS Board of Directors. She will be inducted into the Academy at their annual national conference in Philadelphia this June. Congratulations Amanda!
ITNS
 The International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) is proud to announce the ITNS Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses, second edition. Expanded and updated to reflect today's thinking, this brand-new edition offers crucial, real-life direction on the science and skills required for every kind of solid organ transplant — from initial evaluation to long-term follow-up.
Order your copy today! ITNS members pay only $79.99 USD!
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.
WRAL-TV
According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, only about 2,600 donor hearts become available each year. At any given time, about 4,000 people are on a waiting list for a heart transplant. In the past, people with religious objections to blood transfusions refused this and other lifesaving procedures. But for many, the surgery is now possible without conflicting with faith.
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Bovine Veterinarian
The medical profession calls it "a promising solution." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) calls it "monstrous Frankenscience."
Animal parts have long been used to help humans for many years. For example, pigs' heart valves and other organs have been used as replacements for humans. Now, the role livestock can play in human health goes one step further.
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Business Standard
Contradicting to the perception that kidney transplant is not recommended for elderly, a prestigious institute in Delhi has set an outstanding example by establishing safe kidney donation and transplant among older patients.
Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI) recently showcased some exceptional cases of kidney transplant surgeries where patients of advanced ages have both donors as well as recipients.
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Mareeg Media
Though China currently performs the second-largest number of organ transplants after the U.S., rising costs and lack of doctors remain challeges for those in need of the proceedures, a top Chinese medical expert said recently.
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By Keith Carlson
 It's been said that we have two ears and one mouth so that we'll listen twice as much as we talk. As nurses, we work with patients at their most vulnerable and frightened. So, are we listening enough or talking too much? When a nurse wants to know how a patient's lungs are doing, she uses her stethoscope to listen to the patient's breath sounds. If the nurse tries to talk with the patient while auscultating the lungs, the usefulness of the lung assessment is compromised.
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