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ITNS
Join us for the "Brain Death Declaration — A Nursing Perspective" webinar on Thursday, 11/17/2016, from 2-3pm ET / 11am-12pm PT. This is a 60 minute webinar and registration is now open. To read the descriptor and objectives about the webinar and to register, visit https://ww2.eventrebels.com/er/EventHomePage/CustomPage.jsp?ActivityID=18899&ItemID=68820
ITNS
Thank you to everyone who attended the 25 Annual ITNS Symposium in Pittsburgh. Please complete your evaluation by the 10 January 2017 deadline.
Save the dates Saturday, 24 June to Monday, 26 June 2017 for the Transplant Nursing Symposium presented by ITNS at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa in beautiful Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
ITNS
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.
Scientific American (Subscription required)
Tens of thousands of people around the world receive organ transplants every year. Although the medical know-how for transplanting organs has expanded rapidly, the number of donated organs has lagged. Global figures are hard to come by, but an average of 16 people in Europe and 22 in the U.S. die every day while waiting for a replacement heart, liver or other organ. Moreover, the gap between the number of people who need a new organ and the number of organs available for donation keeps widening.
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Chicago Tribune
Linda Calerco is not a fan of early-morning TV. "It's just a lot of bad talk shows, a lot of interviews with people from these obscure shows I've never heard of," she says. But Calerco, an emergency room nurse who works from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., admits she's probably not the target audience.
"Is there a show for exhausted nurses who are all keyed up and want to relax a bit before getting some sleep? Probably not," she says.
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Phys.Org
Grown like a snowflake and sharpened with a sewing machine, a novel device by Kansas State University researchers may benefit biomedical professionals and the patients they serve during electrode and organ transplant procedures. The device uses gold nanowires and was developed by Bret Flanders, associate professor of physics, and Govind Paneru, former graduate research assistant in physics, to manipulate and sense characteristics of individual cells in medical procedures. The gold nanowires are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair.
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Medscape News
The increased demand for organs has led to the increased usage of "higher risk" kidney and liver grafts. These grafts from donation after circulatory death or expanded criteria donors are more susceptible to preservation injury and have a higher risk of unfavorable outcomes. Dynamic, instead of static, preservation could allow for organ optimization, offering a platform for viability assessment, active organ repair and resuscitation. Ex situ machine perfusion and in situ regional perfusion in the donor are emerging as potential tools to preserve and resuscitate vulnerable grafts. Preclinical findings have ignited clinical organ preservation research that investigates dynamic preservation, its various modes (continuous, preimplantation) and temperatures (hypo-, sub, or normothermic). This review outlines the current status of dynamic preservation of kidney and liver grafts and describes ongoing research and emerging clinical trials.
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By Keith Carlson
 When you land a new nursing position, your first month is an important time to make a good impression and initiate good habits that set you up for success. The following list is not comprehensive, but these five items will certainly elevate your performance and help you integrate painlessly. Whether you're in academia, research, acute care, home health, hospice, flight nursing or case management, these strategies will help you to integrate quickly and conscientiously.
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