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ITNS
 Plan ahead to attend the Transplant Nursing Symposium 24-26 June 2017 in Lake Buena Vista, FL which is nearby to Walt Disney World. Bring your family along to make this an educational and fun trip! ITNS is proud to offer discounted admission tickets to Walt Disney World. Registration for the Transplant Nursing Symposium opens in January, but you can purchase your Disney tickets today at http://www.mydisneygroup.com/itns2017.
These tickets offer pre-arrival savings of 10 percent on our Full-Multi-Day (2 days or longer) Tickets and include one (1) complimentary admission to an additional Disney Experience at any one (1) of the following (additional details are listed on the web site):
- Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park
- Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park
- Disney's Winter Summerland or Disney's Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Courses (before 4 p.m.)
- Greens Fees for one round of golf at Disney's Oak Trail Golf Course, our 9-hole walking course
We are also offering partial-day tickets, which are exclusive to the meetings market.
ITNS
 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!
ITNS
Our members make the work that ITNS does for all nurses possible. Please forward this newsletter to your colleagues and ask them to join ITNS and support the transplant nursing profession!
NDTV
Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj recently tweeted that due to kidney failure, she was undergoing dialysis and was also undergoing tests for a kidney transplant.
As soon as the news broke, responses started coming in from all over. Politicians from every party as well as common citizens wrote to her to wish her a quick recovery. Some went as far as to offer their own kidney to her.
Here's a look at some other well-known cases of organ transplants.
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The Jakarta Post
Indonesia is yet to have an organ bank, a facility needed not only by patients but also by donors.
Japanese Masaru Kawada never imagined that his life would end in a small prison in Indonesia. However, he has made a last wish before he dies.
"I want to donate all my organs to Indonesian and Japanese people. Kidney, lung, heart, liver, corneas, bone marrow and others," the 75-year-old said at a prison in Pariaman, West Sumatra.
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The Times of India
A team of doctors has carried out the state's first combined pancreas-kidney transplant in Pune.
The complex surgery on a 28-year-old management professional suffering from type I diabetes for 18 years has enabled him to take insulin shots to control blood sugar levels. The simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant although common in western countries is rare in India. The transplant in Pune could be the seventh or the eighth one in the country, doctors said.
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The Wall Street Journal
Organ-transplant surgeons have skills most of us can only dream about. One, concentrating for hours straight, is something we can aspire to.
Transplanting a liver can take eight to 10 hours. Surgeons are on their feet the whole time, hunched over the operating table. They minimize breaks for the bathroom or refreshments. And they need frequently to be on call, ready to perform an operation whenever an organ becomes available.
Members of the abdominal-organ transplant team at Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation, in Bronx, N.Y., have carefully honed strategies they use inside the operating room, and away from the job, to push through long surgical procedures. Some techniques are simple, like wearing comfortable shoes. Others stem from an awareness that implanting a new organ can save a patient's life.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Roughly half of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses reported working overtime regularly, according to the recently released Medscape RN/LPN Salary Report 2016.
Medscape surveyed 4,065 RNs and 1,688 LPNs about their earnings, benefits and work hours. Here are five statistics on their overtime and benefits, pulled form the survey.
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