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 The term "clinical ladder" refers to a "grading structure which facilitates career progression and associated differentiation of pay by defining different levels of clinical and professional practice in nursing." This clinical ladder for Transplant Coordinators is based on the 15 standards of practice described in the Introduction to Transplant Nursing: Core Competencies.
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Submit an abstract for a paper (oral) or poster presentation on various topics, including:
- Patient Safety/Quality/Outcomes
- Living Donor
- Liver/Small Bowel
- Staff Nurse
- Organ Procurement/Donation
- Pediatrics
Learn more about abstract requirements to prepare your submission.
The submission deadline is Wednesday, 2 November 2016 by 11:59 PM (CT) Chicago, Illinois, USA. Questions? Contact Meredith Schnider, ITNS Education Manager, at mschnider@itns.org.
TIME
Four American women have received womb transplants from living donors at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, TIME learned exclusively. This is the first time living-donor womb transplants have been performed in the United States.
The four surgeries took place between Sept. 14 and Sept. 22, and three of the womb transplants were removed after tests determined the organs were not receiving normal blood flow. One woman still has her transplanted uterus and has shown no signs of rejection so far.
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Tehran Times
In a first such effort in organ transplantation in Iran, an air ambulance was used to transport a heart harvested from a brain dead patient for a recipient hundreds of kilometers away.
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KPBS-TV
One in five Americans in need of a liver transplant dies on the wait list. San Diego-based Organovo hopes to change that by creating transplantable liver tissue in the lab.
The company's 3-D printed organ tissue is already being used by pharmaceutical companies to test new drugs. And cosmetics giant L'Oreal is using Organovo's 3-D printed skin to test beauty products.
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The Star Online
The organ donation rate for organ and tissue transplants in Malaysia is among the lowest in the world, says Negri Sembilan Health director Dr Abdul Rahim Abdullah.
He said that the current rate stood at 0.6 donors per one million citizens, which was very low compared to its demand.
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The Daily Iowan
The time has come to let you know about a disturbing proposal to change the process that determines which patients suffering from liver failure will receive donated livers, a shift that would literally have life-or-death implications.
The proposal comes from the Liver and Intestine Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing, the membership group to which all transplant programs belong and that administers the federally mandated Organ Procurement and Transplant Network under contract to the federal government. Leaders of University of Iowa Health Care have significant concerns regarding this proposal and the effect the plan would have on Iowans and other people in the region we transplant.
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Psychiatric Times
Organ transplantation is the accepted treatment for many patients with chronic or acute advanced organ disease and certain types of cancer. Currently, there are over 120,000 patients in the U.S. waiting for solid organ transplant (nearly 100,000 are kidney transplant candidates), and the wait list continues to grow. However, because of the shortage of donated organs, only about 30,000 transplants are performed each year and 10 percent to 18 percent of candidates will not survive to transplant. Most wait a year or more for a donated organ, while many kidney candidates wait 3 to 5 years.
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By Joan Spitrey
 As many in healthcare are aware, the rise of drug-resistant organisms is becoming a growing public health concern. In fact, the United Nations just met to discuss this "fundamental threat" to global health. "If we fail to address this problem quickly and comprehensively, antimicrobial resistance will make providing high-quality universal health coverage more difficult, if not impossible," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. But hope may be on the horizon with a new scientific discovery.
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