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ITNS was one of 26 nursing specialty organizations, representing over 600,000 nurses, invited to participate in the Palliative Nursing Summit: Nurses Leading Change and Transforming Care, held in Washington, D.C., on May 12, 2017. Over a year in the planning, the Summit was a collaborative effort orchestrated by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, and the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center.
The goal of the meeting was to convene key leaders from various nursing specialty organizations to develop a collaborative nursing agenda around three key areas of practice as they related to palliative nursing: (1) Communication skills, especially related to advance care planning and treatment decisions;
(2) Coordination and transitions of care; and
(3) Pain and symptom management. Specific meeting objectives were to identify the current state of primary palliative nursing and the greatest opportunities to advance communication, coordination/transitions of care, and pain/symptom management. Betty Farrell, PhD, RN. FAAN, FPCN. CHPN addressed the participants and described the origin, evolution, accomplishments, and gaps in the field of palliative nursing care.
 In three workshop sessions, participants then developed a shared vision for “what is possible” for each of the three key areas of practice and identified changes required to move from the “as is” to the future vision of palliative nursing practice. From this wealth of feedback, strategies will be developed to address the greatest opportunities to help nursing transform the care and culture of serious illness and develop an implementation plan.
Knowledge gleaned from this summit will prove useful for those caring for transplant candidates and recipients who could benefit from palliative care along the transplant continuum.
 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!
Advance your career by getting the education you need and learning from leaders in transplant at the Transplant Nursing Symposium. Enhance your knowledge and skills as a transplant nurse as you earn up to 28 contact hours! Earn valuable continuing education (CE), CEPTC, and pharmacology credits.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
Philadelphia doctors say they cleared hepatitis C infections in 10 patients who received kidneys from deceased donors who had the virus.
The findings suggest hundreds more of these transplants could take place each year, thus reducing wait time for a lifesaving kidney, the doctors said.
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Healthcare professionals can define the patient experience by a series of interdependent categories, including facility organization, care outcomes and healthcare design, according to a study published in the journal Patient Experience.
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Medical Xpress
By piercing liver cells with rapid pulses of electricity, scientists at UC San Francisco have demonstrated an entirely new way to transplant cells into organs to treat disease.
Because the technique provides a hospitable environment for newly introduced cells, it may dramatically boost survival of stem cells transplanted to restore a failing liver, heart or lungs, and may one day ease the critical shortage of donor organs, the researchers said. Findings from a mouse study appear in the journal BioTechniques.
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Researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Transplant Program found that liver transplant patients taking everolimus (Afinitor) gained less weight — and kept it off at one and two years after starting the drug — than patients taking tacrolimus, a commonly prescribed immunosuppressant drug. Patients must take such anti-rejection drugs post transplantation to prevent their immune systems from attacking and destroying the transplanted organ.
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Effective nurses needs many qualities. They need to be knowledgeable, compassionate, and calm under pressure — and, as for any job, happy and confident in their working environment. Fortunately, nurses enjoy a high degree of mobility, permitting them to take advantage of new job opportunities in different regions of the country. So, where in the United States can nurses find the best working environments?
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Researchers from University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), may have found a way to increase the kidney supply for patients in need of organ transplants.
Currently, at least 500 kidneys are discarded each year due to infection with hepatitis C (HCV). However, a group of scientists from Penn Medicine launched the first clinical trial that would transplant kidneys from deceased donors infected with HCV to uninfected patients who were on the transplant list. Now, pilot study results show that, after receiving therapy, the virus has been eradicated in all study patients.
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HealthDay News via Renal & Urology News
For renal transplant recipients (RTRs) without diabetes, circulating proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is associated with new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT), according to a study published online in Diabetes Care.
Michele F. Eisenga, MD, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues examined the correlation between serum PCSK9 levels and NODAT development among RTRs without diabetes with a functional graft for at least 1 year.
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DailyNurse
According to Ramona Yehle, PhD, MS, RN, adjunct professor, graduate nursing programs at American Sentinel University, nurses working in the specialized field of nursing informatics are thriving. She’s not alone among healthcare leaders who are predicting that nursing informatics is a trend that’s here to stay.
PRUnderground.com defines nursing informatics as the practice of integrating health science, computer science and information technology to help clinicians more efficiently store, retrieve and apply mass amounts of critical data as part of daily care delivery.
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MedPage Today
The advent of direct-acting anti-hepatitis C agents (DAAs) appears to have improved both patient and graft survival after liver transplant, a researcher said here.
In almost all cases, patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) who undergo liver transplant see the virus quickly recur, with rapid progression to fibrosis and cirrhosis, according to Nyan Latt, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
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HealthDay News via Renal & Urology News
Most solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) do not adhere to standard recommendations for cancer screening, according to a study published online in the American Journal of Transplantation.
Sergio Acuna, MD, from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and colleagues examined the uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening tests in a population-based cohort of SOTRs and assessed factors associated with up-to-date screening.
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