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ITNS
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Week as an established recognition event. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually. And as of 2003, National School Nurse Day is celebrated on the Wednesday within National Nurses Week each year.
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ITNS
It is now possible to make an online donation to the ITNS Foundation. Help us make a difference in transplant nursing by directly supporting the valuable research and education of ITNS members who strive to improve patient care in every way.
Funds are used to:
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Support new research initiatives
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Help qualified members attend conferences and workshops
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Produce patient education materials
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Award and recognize outstanding research and performance
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Offer reduced rates in countries with emerging economies
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Build awareness of World Organ Day, Transplant Games, and Transplant Nurses Day
Thank you for your support of transplant nursing and the ITNS Foundation!
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Successful organ transplants from donors with HIV to patients with the infection will help reduce shortages, a leading medic has said.
There has been a small number of transplants in the U.K. from donors with HIV and it is hoped the medical breakthrough will inspire people living with the condition to join the organ donor register.
Medics have transplanted HIV-infected organs from three donors into four HIV patients in the last five years, in what is being hailed as a significant medical advance.
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MinorityNurse
Every year more than 400,000 serious injury cases are reported in the United States due to clinical malpractice, according to the Journal of Patient Safety. Nurses are an essential part of the health care system and patient support structure; however, given the occupational demands and possibility of errors in records or care methods, they are often subject to legal malpractice suits.
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Chicago Tribune
James Myers looked weary but cheerful when he returned home from an Indianapolis hospital with his little bundle of joy.
It weighed a quarter of a pound, and was the size of a fist. It's name is "Woody." "It's a family name," said Myers, 61, of Gary.
After nearly four years of waiting and wondering, Myers finally got the call he had been praying for, hoping for, advocating for. It came on April 26.
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Value Walk
Sure, drones are great for photography, surveillance and maybe even pizza delivery one of these days. Now there’s a life-saving possibility for the unmanned flying vehicles: delivering organs for transplants. EHang Holdings Limited, a leading aerial technology company based in Guangzhou, China, recently announced that it’s working with Lung Biotechnology of Silver Spring, Maryland, to develop a fleet of drones to automate organ transplant delivery.
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Medscape (free login required)
Nurse Fatigue may seem inevitable in many healthcare environments, with a portion of registered nurses (RNs) consistently working past their normal shifts — jeopardizing their own health and potentially crossing the line between safe and unsafe care.
Addressing fatigue is particularly relevant as the American Nurses Association (ANA) continues its yearlong campaign to help nurses achieve a culture of safety in their work settings.
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The New York Times
In 2004, Rick Segal, a father of four living in Rye, N.Y., found his stamina inexplicably failing him as he did his regular runs. He went to see his doctor, and learned he had a genetic disease that enlarges and weakens the heart. Segal was about to turn 50, but his heart was pumping at one-eighth of a normal heart’s effectiveness. He needed a transplant.
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By Christina Thielst
 The healthcare industry has one of the highest rates of work-related injuries and illness, and the impact is great. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the number of days healthcare workers are away from work is higher than both construction and manufacturing — industries traditionally believed to be more hazardous. OSHA also reports workers' compensation losses result in a total annual expense of $2 billion for hospitals alone.
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Vice News
There's a bleak silver lining to America's ongoing opioid epidemic: So many organ donors are dying from drug overdoses that sick people are now more likely to receive a lifesaving transplant than in years past.
According to data collected by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a nonprofit organization that regulates organ donations and oversees the national organ waitlist, 848 organs were made available by donors who died from overdoses last year, a 270 percent increase from 2006. According to the US Department Health and Human Services, an average of 22 Americans die every day while waiting for an organ transplant.
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FierceHealthcare
The shift to patient-centered care can create conflicts in the emergency room when a doctor's diagnosis and suggested course of treatment don't meet patient expectations.
And this conflict has become more common as patients turn to the Internet for medical advice and self-diagnose their problems before they head to the ER, writes Catherine Polera, D.O., chief medical officer at Sheridan Healthcare's Division of Emergency Services, in a piece for MedPage Today.
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Trib Live
Despite medical breakthroughs in the world of organ transplantation, long-term survival rates remain strikingly low for lung-transplant recipients when compared to other lifesaving procedures.
About 55 percent of patients undergoing lung transplants live longer than five years, among the lowest long-term survival rates of all solid organ transplants. Researchers from UPMC set out to explore ways to increase survival rates by embarking on a retrospective analysis of 748 local patients between January 2007 and October 2013.
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