Description
Book SynopsisTransplant 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. With input from numerous nurses, they developed this revised edition. It is a comprehensive delineation of the competent level of practice and professional performance common to and expected from transplant registered nurses in all practice levels and settings.
The publication’s scope of practice addresses what is expected of all transplant nurses, specifying the who, what, where, when, why, and how of their practice. This gives the context—the underlying assumptions, characteristics, environments and settings, education and training requirements, key issues and trends, and ethical and conceptual bases of transplant nursing—needed to understand and use the standards.
Those 16 standards, which offer a framework for evaluating practice outcomes and goals, are those by which all transplant nurses are held accountable for their practice. The set of specific competencies accompanying each standard serves as evidence of minimal compliance with that standard. A foundational volume that is primarily for those directly involved with transplant nursing practice, education, and research, other nurses and allied healthcare providers, researchers, and scholars will find value in this content. It is also a resource for employers, insurers, lawyers, policy makers, regulators, and stakeholders involved in solid organ transplantation.
About ANA’s Specialty Nursing Standards
Since the late 1990s, ANA has partnered with other nursing organizations to establish a formal process for recognition of specialty areas of nursing practice. This includes the criteria for approving the specialty itself and the scope statement, and an acknowledgment by ANA of the standards of practice for that specialty. Because of the significant changes in the evolving nursing and healthcare environments, ANA’s approval of specialty nursing scope statements and its acknowledgment of specialty standards of practice remain valid for five years, starting from the publication date of the documents. The standards in this publication are based on language from ANA’s
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition, a helpful supplement to this specialty text, which in turn is of optimal use with two complementary ANA texts:
Nursing’s Social Policy Statement and
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses. Together, these three books help guide nursing practice, thinking, and decision-making. The set is proving useful as a professional reference, classroom textbook, in-service training guide, and credentialing exam resource.
Table of Contents
- Scope of Transplant Nursing Practice
- Introduction to Transplant Nursing
- International Transplant Nurses Society and
- Transplant Nursing Practice
- The Growth of Transplant Nursing Practice
- What is Transplant Nursing?
- Key Elements of Transplant Nursing
- Practice Settings and Roles: The Where, When, and Who
- Practice Characteristics: The How and Why of
- Transplant Nursing
- Clinical Transplant Nurse/Transplant Nurse Generalist
- Transplant Nurse Coordinator
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Specializing
- in Transplantation
- Societal and Ethical Dimensions Describe the How
- and Why of Transplant Nursing
- A Unique Base of Knowledge and Set of Skills
- Globalization of Transplant Nursing
- Palliative Care and Transplant Nursing
- Ethics and Informed Decisions
- Future Considerations
- Standards of Pediatric Nursing Practice
- StandardsofPractice
- Standard 1. Assessment
- Standard 2. Diagnosis
- Standard 3. Outcomes Identification
- Standard 4. Planning
- Standard 5. Implementation
- Standard 5A. Coordination of Care
- Standard 5B. Health Teaching and Health Promotion
- Standard 5C. Consultation
- Standard 5D. Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
- Standard 6. Evaluation
- StandardsofProfessionalPerformance
- Standard 7. Ethics
- Standard 8. Education
- Standard 9. Evidence-based Practice and Research
- Standard 10. Quality of Practice
- Standard 11.Communication
- Standard 12. Leadership
- Standard 13. Collaboration
- Standard 14. Professional Practice Evaluation
- Standard 15. Resource Utilization
- Standard 16. Environmental Health
- Standard 17. Advocacy
- References
- Appendix A: Transplant Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice(2008)
- Index
