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Transplant Nursing in the 21st Century: The Universal Code for Care
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Renal & Urology News
Gout is much more common among solid organ transplant recipients than in the general U.S. population, study findings presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2018 conference suggest. Using Medicare and commercial claims databases, Mark D. Brigham, MD, of Trinity Partners LLC in Waltham, Mass., and colleagues found that the prevalence of active gout was 11.3 percent among SOT recipients compared with 1.1 percent of the general U.S. population, based on 2016 claims data.
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A bill waiting for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature would add New York to a growing list of states that passed legislation in 2018 to protect living organ donors. It’s time for Congress to do the same and extend this protection to all Americans.
Despite the good they do for people with failing organs, not to mention for society, living organ donors face significant obstacles. One of the biggest is getting time off work for surgery and recovery. Another is that insurance companies routinely deny or limit life, disability, and long-term care insurance policies for living donors, or charge them higher premiums.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 Kidney transplantation is the best treatment option for patients with end-stage renal disease. But because of the limited availability of deceased donor organs, only a minor percentage of the patients with ESRD receive the kidney transplants they need. Living donor transplants help meet this need. Screening helps determine medical suitability for donation, of course, and many transplant centers use computed tomography as part of their donor assessment. In a new study, researchers aim to measure the number incidentally detected lesions and other health problems found on screening CTs.
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HealthLeaders Media
While quality and safety measures are key to delivering excellent nursing care, new graduate nurses are not always adequately prepared in these areas, reports a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.
The study found there is a growing gap in preparedness in quality and safety competencies between new nurses with associate and bachelor’s degrees. Nurses with BSN degrees report they are "very prepared" in quality and safety measures, more so than their ADN peers.
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Transplantation Proceedings
Sarcopenia is a condition in which the amount of skeletal muscle decreases. Recent studies have suggested that sarcopenia is a risk factor for the incidence of postoperative complications, longer hospitalization, and a poorer prognosis. In this study, we examined the impact of sarcopenia in association with a history of hemodialysis in renal transplantation patients.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 Medscape recently released the results of its RN/LPN Compensation Report for 2018, featuring the feedback of 10,282 nurses who reflected upon their salaries and pay from 2017. Based on the findings, the hospital continues to be the primary employer for RNs (52 percent), with 39 percent in inpatient settings and 13 percent in hospital-based outpatient settings. Earnings continue to be attractive for those in the field. Full-time registered nurses earned $81,000, while licensed practical nurses earned about half that, at $46,000.
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American College of Cardiology via EurekAlert!
Accepting an organ that has an increased risk of potentially transmitting disease offers a higher one-year survival rate for candidates on the heart transplant list over waiting for an organ with less risk, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Increased risk donors make up a growing number in the donor pool for organs, offering a potential strategy to reduce waitlist mortality for patients awaiting transplant. For many of these patients, the benefit of proceeding with transplantation sooner outweighs the low risk of disease transmission associated with these donors.
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