Description

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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(s)

• Nancy Hoffart