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 Originally sold for $64.95 to ITNS members and $69.95 to non-members, the Core Curriculum has been marked down to only $30 to make room for the new 2nd edition of the Core which is scheduled to be released in late-October. Take advantage of this steep discount and order your copy today!
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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.
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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
By Lynn Hetzler
 Patients with advanced cirrhosis are at a high risk for frailty, which increases the risks of liver-related death, transplant wait-list attrition and major transplant complications. Regular activity helps patients with cirrhosis avoid frailty and its complications, but a new study shows patients waiting for liver transplants are highly sedentary. The research also suggests patient self-assessment — and their doctors' assessments — do not reliably indicate patients' actual physical activity.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
When the town of Henryville, Ind., was ravaged by tornadoes in 2012, Louella Aker knew what she had to do: Help her neighbors.
The caring, fiesty grandmother headed down to the Family Dollar, where she was assistant manager, and began handing out goods to affected residents. She also went out to help clear debris. Little did they know the cleanup work would result in Aker developing a blood infection that eventually would lead to the amputation of her legs below the knee, her left forearm and part of her right hand.
Four years later, Aker's body has been partially restored thanks to a double hand transplant by the Louisville Vascularized Composite Allograft surgical team at Jewish Hospital.
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Health IT Outcomes
Faced with a nursing shortage, hospitals and healthcare organizations are struggling to find ways to effectively schedule. Predictive analytics is one tool that can help optimize nurse staffing at these facilities according to the findings of an AMN Healthcare/Avantas report. The survey, Predictive Analytics in Healthcare 2016: Optimizing Nurse Staffing in an Era of Workforce Shortages, is an assessment of over 5,600 nurse managers and includes interviews with 35 nurse managers, finance managers, and registered nurses.
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Radio New Zealand
Three pairs of donors and recipients took part in the successful kidney swaps earlier this month, in a procedure that could speed up the wait for the hundreds of people who need a transplant.
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Nurse.com
The School of Nursing’s board pass rate for its BSN program has dropped steadily in the last five years from an impressive 98 percent rate to the current 82 percent. The long-serving director of the program
retired four years ago. The new director has yet to establish rapport with his faculty. At present, every faculty member seems intent on going his own way with little concern for the school as a whole.
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Psychiatric Times
Because of the inherent risks and costs associated with transplant in addition to limited organ availability, careful candidate selection is crucial for successful outcomes. Given the prevalence and effects of psychiatric and substance use disorders on quality of life and post-transplant outcomes, the psychiatrist is often called upon to recommend or implement treatment in both pre-transplant and post-transplant stages.
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By Keith Carlson
 Nurse leaders face a challenging environment in today's world of healthcare and nursing. Rapidly changing technology, a volatile economic healthcare climate and other seismic shifts point to ways in which nurse leaders must be willing to pivot when necessary while offering strong support to the nurses whom they supervise and lead. While not a panacea, these five strategies can assist nurse leaders in keeping their eyes on both the micro and macro as they navigate choppy waters.
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