Recently added articles from Nephrology Nursing Journal:
Nephrology nursing: past and future.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... It's hard to believe that our association is 40 years old, and harder even still for me to imagine that it's been almost that long since I first set foot into a dialysis and transplant unit. My first exposure to nephrology nursing was as a senior student nurse at the Medical University of ...
Our journey.(President's Message)(American Nephrology Nurses' Association)
Mar 01, 2009; ... As ANNA celebrates its 40th year anniversary, it becomes a time of remembering our journey. It is important to celebrate our past, live our present, and plan our future. It is a time of celebrating and experiencing the changes that have occurred in our lives as nephrology nurses. It is ...
The value of nursing.(President-Elect Message)
Mar 01, 2009; ... It is essential to know and recognize the value that society, governments, and the nurses themselves place on nursing as a profession. A growing body of literature supports the value of nurses in the role they play in the care of patients. However, value may also reflect individual values, ...
Forty years of vascular access.(American Nephrology Nurses' Association)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary (19692009), and what better way to celebrate than to look back to see how vascular access started and how it has evolved over this time span. To some, it will be a history lesson; to others, it's what we ...
The development of kidney transplant nursing.(Continuing Nursing Education)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Kidney transplantation was first used successfully as a means of treating renal failure during the middle of the 20th century. A small number of nurses in the few hospitals that experimented with transplant viewed the new treatment as an exciting work opportunity. In this review of ...
ANNA at 40 years: history of nephrology and the American Nephrology Nurses' Association: a timeline.
Mar 01, 2009 ... <Pre> History of Nephrology and the American Nephrology Nurses' Association: A Timeline History of Nephrology 1827-1968 Richard Bright established the relationship 1827 between the symptoms and pathology of renal failure Thomas Graham first described osmotic ...
ANNA presidents 1969-2009.(American Nephrology Nurses' Association)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bernice I. Hinckley 1969-1970 1st National Symposium: Washington, DC [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beth Cameron 1970-1971 2nd National Symposium: Chicago, IL ...
Nephrology nursing memories: celebrating ANNA's 40th anniversary.(American Nephrology Nurses' Association)
Mar 01, 2009 ... ANNA Board of Directors 2008-2009 Sue Cary, MN, RN, NP, CNN President Fleur De Lis Chapter Living in Louisiana, I experienced Hurricane Katrina and worked with people who came to the shelters in Baton Rouge. My husband and I went throughout one ...
Nephrology nursing: a photographic story: 1949-1971.
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The theme of this special issue of the ANNA Journal commemorating 20 years as a professional organization is the growth and development of nephrology nursing. Certainly influencing who we are now is the growth in technology and medicine over the past 50 ...
Nephrology nursing 1915-1970: a historical study of the integration of technology and care.(A Look Back ...)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1827, Richard Bright published the first volume of Reports of Medical Cases in which he described the association of 'dropsy' and albuminuria with diseased kidneys, thus establishing a relationship between the symptoms and pathology of kidney failure ....
The growth and development of nephrology nursing.(A Look Back ...)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I am tremendously pleased to have been invited to keynote this meeting. It isn't often that one is given the privilege of "official" reminiscence, especially with a captive audience! I am a little awed at the assignment, however, for three reasons: 1) ...
Peritoneal dialysis nursing--we've come a long way.(A Look Back ...)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... When I was assigned my first patient on acute peritoneal dialysis (PD) in the 1970s, we used 2- liter glass bottles of dialysis solution warmed in a water bath, and dialysate was drained into open graduated cylinders. A few years later, the first patients on continuous ambulatory ...
Industry's contribution to the development of renal care.(A Look Back ...)(health care industry)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When asked to contribute to this issue of the ANNA Journal celebrating the 20th year of the founding of ANNA, I was moved because it is also my 20th year in dialysis and a memorable occasion for me. A lot has happened in the past two decades. I ...
Reducing early mortality in patients on dialysis: lessons from the RightStart program.(Sponsored Educational Supplement)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Nurses are ideally positioned to coordinate the patient education efforts of the nephrology team. Patient-centered education, a primary component of nursing practice and the right of every patient, incorporates customized and ongoing reinforcement of the key components of patient self-care ...
A brief history in nephrology pharmacotherapy.(Pharmacology Review)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The kidneys play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis. Regulating body water, electrolytes, acid-base balance, and excretory regulation, in addition to metabolic (endocrine) processes, are some of the functions that the kidneys perform. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) results from ...
Anemia treatment through the years.(Clinical Consult)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Q: What types of treatments for anemia were available for patients prior to the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs)? A: The treatment of anemia was greatly impacted by the introduction of ESAs in 1989. Treatments prior to that time were relatively ineffective with ...