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The Development of Kidney Transplant Nursing
(Vol 36/No. 2. On-line test expires: 04/20/2011)
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  AUTHOR
Nancy Hoffart, PhD, RN
 Nancy Hoffart, PhD, RN, is a Professor, School of Nursing, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a member of ANNA’s Mass Bay Chapter. Her interest in the history of nephrology nursing dates to the mid-1980s when she first wrote about the emergence of the nephrology nursing specialty.
  OUTLINE

An analysis of published literature, interviews with early transplant nurses, and other primary source materials shows how evolving medical treatments for rejection, nurses’ ability to learn on the job, and their commitment to patients influenced the development of kidney transplantation as a specialized area of practice. The work of these nurses work is discussed in the context of unfolding nursing specialization at the middle of the twentieth century.
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  CE RELATED INFORMATION
This offering for 1.2 contact hours is being provided by the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA), This offering for 1.2 contact hours is being provided by the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA).ANNA is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education (CNE) by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.ANNA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider numberCEP 00910.This CNE article meets the Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission’s (NNCC’s) continuing nursing education requirements for certification and recertification.

  EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Goal:
To provide an overview of the development of kidney transplant nursing as a specialized area of practice.

Objectives:
1. Discuss early kidney transplant experiments pre-World War II and into the 1950s.
2. Describe how kidney transplantation evolved during the 1960s and beyond.
3. Identify key changes in post-transplant patient care over the last 60 years.
4. Outline significant events in transplant nursing as recalled by early transplant nurses.

AUTHOR DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
Nancy Hoffart has no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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