Transplant Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice Scope and Standards of Practice

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Author: American Nurses Association
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Publisher: American Nurses Association
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN 10: 1558106391
ISBN 13: 9781558106390
eISBN: 9781558106406
Edition: 2nd
Description:
Transplant nursing is the delivery of specialized nursing care focused on protecting, promoting, and optimizing the health and abilities of both the transplant recipient and the living donor across the life span. Patient care includes prevention, detection, and treatment of illness and injury related to diseases treated by solid organ transplantation and to diseases that may result from living donation. Transplant nursing also addresses the prevention of further disease and the promotion of optimal health and well-being of organ recipients and donors. ANA and the International Transplant Nurses Society convened a workgroup of transplant nurse experts from to update and expand the 2008 edition to accommodate ongoing and anticipated changes in their specialty and in health care.
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