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ITNS
The 2017 call for abstracts has been extended to Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Midnight (CT).
The ITNS Annual Symposium Planning Committee invites you to present at the 26th Annual Symposium, "Reflections of Transplant Nursing Excellence," at Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Lake Buena Vista, FL on June 24-26, 2017. Learn more about abstract requirements and start your submission now, and we hope to see you in 2017!
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!
ITNS
Thursday, Oct. 13
Pharmacology for Transplant Nurses
08:00-17:15
Sign up for the full presymposium session to earn 8 hours of pharmacy credit, or sign up for just the morning or afternoon session to earn 4 hours of pharmacy credit. The sessions will cover evidence-based guidelines, drug-specific information, safe prescribing practices, safe medication administration, and more. A light lunch will be available in the meeting room for attendees of the full 8-hour session. Register for the Pre-Symposium session and the 25th Annual ITNS Symposium today!
Inside Edition
While getting a transplant was great news for this Massachusetts boy, he was sad to learn he'd be missing his pre-K graduation.
So when Lucas St. Onge's teachers found out he'd be missing the ceremony for surgery, they brought the graduation to him.
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The Hill
For people with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases, there is good news. Bone marrow transplants are saving lives — often curing these life-threatening illnesses. Unfortunately, out of date Medicare coverage rules are restricting access to bone marrow transplants solely on the basis of age. Hence, a patient who is 64 years old will likely receive a much-needed transplant, while a 65-year-old may not. Determining who is eligible for this life-saving treatment should not be done by arbitrary age requirements. Lawmakers need to change this illogical age cut off and let doctors decide who should be a candidate for a bone marrow transplant.
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Healthcare DIVE
A lot of the technological advances that we take for granted today started as science fiction. Think space travel or driverless cars — or virtual reality. In 1935, Stanley G. Weinbaum published a short story, Pygmalion’s Spectacles, about a goggle-based virtual reality system that created holographic experiences including taste, smell and touch. Virtual reality is no longer fantasy, and its arrival in healthcare is already making waves.
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The Birmingham Times
Angela Johnson of Pell City, Alabama is among the fortunate ones.
The mother of two started receiving dialysis treatments in 2009, as her kidneys deteriorated. The blood-cleansing sessions were done three days a week, and each lasted several hours. But she was able to resume a normal life in 2013, after receiving a donor kidney that freed her from dialysis.
“[The transplant] gave me a second chance at life,” said Johnson, 46, who works as a sales associate at the Outlet Shops of Grand River in Leeds.
Many African-Americans are on waiting lists for kidneys, hearts, and other organs — and often not as fortunate as Johnson.
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News-Medical
Gift certificate, layaway plan or voucher. Call it what you want, but an innovative organ donation program initiated at UCLA has started to spread to other transplant programs across the United States.
The program allows for living donors to donate a kidney in advance of when a friend or family member might require a kidney transplant.
"Sometimes, patients may be heading toward transplantation in the next few years, but it would be more convenient for a friend or family member to donate a kidney now," said Dr. Jeffrey Veale, a transplant surgeon who helped initiate the program at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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ABC News
Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs.
That transplant lasted a remarkable four decades — and now Hudson's recovery from a second one, this time faster and surrounded by germy visitors, showcases how far organ transplants have come and the hurdles that still await.
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New York Daily News
More than 90,000 Americans are currently on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waiting list for a kidney transplant, and there aren't nearly enough donor organs to go around.
In New York State, the wait for a donor kidney is upward of seven years.
It is estimated that there could be as many as 2,000 HIV-positive donors in the United States — donors whose organs previously were not pursued because it was illegal.
Now, thanks to the passing of the Hope Act, many of these donors will be able to donate and save lives. We expect that this change in policy will bring about the largest increase to the pool of donor organs in the past 20 years.
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DailyNurse
Millions of people work hours other than the standard 9 to 5, Monday through Friday and, unbeknownst to them, their health may be severely affected because of it. Shift work (defined as working anything other than the traditional 9 to 5) was designed to cover industries that operate twenty-four hours per day. Hospitals fall into that category and need staff coverage at all times, leading to employees that are more prone to a condition known as shift work disorder (SWD).
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EurekAlert!
When cells die, whether through apoptosis or necrosis, the DNA and other molecules found in those cells don't just disappear. They wind up in the blood stream, where degraded bits and pieces can be extracted.
This cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is degraded due to its exposure to enzymes in the blood but is nonetheless a powerful monitoring tool in cancer, pregnancy and organ transplantation. One fairly recent breakthrough is prenatal testing for conditions such as Down syndrome, as fragments of fetal cfDNA can be detected in a mother's bloodstream.
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