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Symptom Occurrence, Symptom Distress, and Quality Of Life in Renal Transplant Recipients
 (Vol 33/No. 6. On-line test expires: 12/20/2008)
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  AUTHOR
April Zarifian, APRN, DNSc, CNN
 April Zarifian, APRN, DNSc, CNN, is Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Abdominal Transplant, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA. She is a member of the Fleur-de- Lis Chapter of ANNA.
  OUTLINE

The growing number of persons who have successful renal transplants and the challenges they undergo as they adjust to changed lifestyles increases the need for knowledge of the recipient’s view of the changes resulting from the transplantation process. One area for exploration is the recipient’s perception of the symptoms that occur after transplantation. The purpose of this study was to determine symptom occurrence and symptom distress following renal transplantation and their relationships to quality of life in patients with renal transplants.
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  CE RELATED INFORMATION
This offering for 1.5 contact hours is being provided by the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA), which is accredited as a provider and approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center-Commission on Accreditation (ANCCCOA). This educational activity is approved by most states and specialty organizations that recognize the ANCC-COA accreditation process. ANNA is an approved provider of continuing education in nursing by the California Board of Registered Nursing, BRN Provider No. 00910; and the Kansas State Board of Nursing, Provider No. LT0148-0738. This offering is accepted for RN and LPN relicensure in Kansas

  EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Goal:
To disseminate information from a study on symptoms occurrence and symptoms distress as perceived by patients with renal transplants.

Objectives:
1. Relate the most common symptoms reported to the perception of distress caused by those symptoms in studied patients with renal transplants.
2. Contrast symptom occurrence and symptom distress in patients with heart transplants to those in patients having renal transplantation.
3. Summarize findings from a study on the quality of life as reported by patients with renal transplants.
AUTHOR DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
April Zarifian, has no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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