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 CMV & Me: Information for Transplant Patients
This booklet provides important information about cytomegalovirus (CMV). Sections in the pamphlet include risk factors, tips for families and caregivers, a healthcare provider visit checklist, and more!
Making Your Transplant Medicines Work for You After Organ Transplantation
 This booklet provides information on transplant medications and the responsibilities of the patient after transplant. The information in the pamphlet can be used for the patient to help talk about their transplant medicines with their transplant team. This updated booklet includes new information on medication safe-handling practices from the recently updated National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) guidelines.
Updates to these patient education pamphlets were supported by an educational grant from Astellas.
 Welcome, we are happy to have you and invite you to participate in our photo contest. Email the photos you take at the Symposium to PhotoContest@itns.org. You will be entered into a raffle to win a copy of the Scope and Standards of Practice: Transplant Nursing, 2nd Edition.
If you missed out on the fun at the European Transplant Nursing Symposium, search for #ITNSBerlin on Facebook or Twitter to see what your colleagues were up to in Berlin. Save the dates 28-30 September 2018 for the Transplant Nursing Symposium in Rosemont, IL, USA.
 ITNS's purpose is to support the professional and educational needs of transplant nurses throughout their careers. You, our members, are a vital part of the transplant nursing community that cares for a special patient population and their families.
You can make a difference for your transplant nursing colleagues! Share with your friends the benefits of membership in ITNS and encourage them to join ITNS here.
By Lynn Hetzler
Demand for donor organs for transplant is high. Someone is added to the national transplant waitlist every 10 minutes, according to UNOS, and an estimated 20 people die every day waiting for a transplant.
Deceased donors save thousands of lives each year, as four out of five donated organs come from deceased donors. Now, an increasing number of organs are coming from donors who died from drug overdoses.
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Medical Xpress
A study in the United States has shown that attitudes among community nurses are important for their compliance with infection control practices. The survey of 359 community nurses analysed knowledge, attitudes and reported compliance with practice guidelines looking at the relationship between attitudes to infection and actual compliance to infection control norms.
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Healio
Researchers reported that they developed a new algorithm that more accurately predicts how long patients with advanced HF will survive, regardless of whether they receive a transplant.
“Our work suggests that more lives could be saved with the application of this new machine learning-based algorithm,” Mihaela van der Schaar, PhD, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London, and the Man Professor at University of Oxford, said in a press release.
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Endocrinology Advisor
Although the use of metformin for diabetes in kidney transplant recipients is uncommon, results of a recent study published in Clinical Transplantation indicate significantly lowered mortality rates, as well as less significant trends toward reduced graft failure and rejection.
Subjects were selected for study analysis using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data, which records demographic and clinical data on all transplant recipients, donors, and candidates in the United States; additional information was found by linking SRTR records to pharmaceutical claims data from Symphony Health Solutions.
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HealthLeaders Media
In a profession where women comprise 88% of the workforce, one might assume nurses would be largely unaffected by the gender wage gap.
But the nursing profession is not, in fact, immune to disparities in pay, finds the newly released Nursing Salary Research Report conducted by OnCourse Learning.
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STAT
For many hospitals and health care systems, improving safety means being alert to things that go wrong, finding out why they happened, and fixing them. While this is a helpful approach, adding a new one aimed at anticipating errors can take patient safety to an entirely new level. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published "To Err Is Human." This landmark report turned a spotlight on medical errors and the resulting harm to patients.
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Healio
Despite recent changes in the national organ allocation system aimed at getting donor kidneys to individuals who would have the best long-term benefit, geography — where a potential recipient lives — still has a major influence in how organs are distributed, according to a new study.
“The Kidney Allocation System fundamentally altered kidney allocation, causing a substantial increase in regional and national sharing that we hypothesized might impact geographic disparities,” Sheng Zhou, MD, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Health wrote in an article published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
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