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ITNS
Transplant Nurses Day, this year celebrated on April 20, is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions you make to patient care, patient and public education, nursing research, and the profession of nursing.
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2016 Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest is Lynette A. Fix, RN CCTC, Nurse Supervisor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The winning essay was submitted by Jolinda Conzemius. Lynette has received a recognition plaque from ITNS. Congratulations to Lynette and all of the nominated transplant nurses!
ITNS
Pittsburgh is the place to be! The 25th Annual ITNS Symposium, Oct. 14-16, 2016, will be held at The Westin Pittsburgh. In addition to the great educational content at the Symposium, you don't want to miss everything Pittsburgh has to offer including entertaining, great dining, history, and more! Register today to save!
The Huffington Post
It's a fact. Organ transplants save lives. It is also the reason why thousands of Canadians will be celebrating National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.
There are almost 600 people in BC waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, and almost 500 of those are waiting for a kidney. Sadly many of these patients will die waiting.
Everyone can be a hero and do their part to help make a second chance possible for those waiting for a life-saving organ transplant.
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By Stacey Kram
 The media is full of statistics that warn of the looming global crisis of the aging nursing workforce. We know the average age of a nurse is now 47 years old and 55 percent of the RN workforce is age 50 or older. When we discuss the impending shortage of qualified nurses, we contemplate the effect this shortage will have on direct patient care and staffing. Lost in the discussion, however, is the fact that 75 percent of nurse leaders — the baby boomers — will retire by the year 2020.
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The Huffington Post
April is National Donate Life Month, a time to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation. That’s why Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) created a “before and after” photo series that shows how much organ transplants can enhance a child’s life.
Photographed by a kidney donor, the series features nine young organ donation recipients alongside photos of themselves before their transplants.
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Medical Daily
As some patients know all too well, the waiting list for an organ transplant can be hundreds of people long. This means that several patients don't get the organs they need in time, which is why Neal Raisman, 68, decided to take matters into his own hands. Neither he nor his family was willing to leave his kidney donation up to chance.
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The Huffington Post
National Donate Life Month is a time to celebrate those who have been donors and given the gift of life. It’s also an opportunity to educate people about the difference they can make by choosing to be an organ, eye and tissue donor.
As a transplant nephrologist for almost 30 years, I’ve treated a lot of patients and witnessed first-hand thousands of lives saved and enhanced through organ donation. I’ve been lucky enough to see patients grow up and go to college. To live long enough to meet their grandchildren. To go back to work and enjoy a fulfilling career. To fall in love, get married and start their own families.
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ABC News
When Elena Sablina's daughter Alina was killed in a car crash in Moscow two years ago, she was devastated.
One month later, Sablina accidentally discovered from a forensic report that six of her 19-year-old daughter's organs, including her heart and kidneys, had been removed for transplant.
"I was shocked that organs were taken from my child without my permission," Sablina told The Associated Press.
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The individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations using nursing and healthcare services can use this document to better understand what constitutes the specialty of transplant nursing and how registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses lead within today’s healthcare environment.
Nurse.com
As the U.S. grows more diverse, cultural knowledge and strengthened communication skills can aid healthcare providers in improving patient comfort and satisfaction with care.
The U.S. Census Bureau projects that more than half of all Americans are expected to belong to a minority group by 2044. According to the same report, nearly one in five people in the U.S. will be foreign-born by 2060. Faculty members from Chamberlain College of Nursing recently shared five ways nurses can provide more culturally congruent care.
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Science Codex
After a kidney transplant, women may experience decreased kidney damage from ischemia reperfusion injury compared to men due to the impact of gender-specific hormones, suggests a new preclinical study and an analysis of patient data published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Healthcare Daily Online
The stark reality for many people waiting to receive an organ transplant is that they just might die before a compatible donor is found.
But a new procedure for kidney transplants recently detailed in The New England Journal of Medicine may bring renewed hope.
While there are currently more than 100,000 people on the national waiting list for a kidney, the number of actual transplant operations performed in 2015 was just 17,878, according to a report by the Associated Press.
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