Recently added articles from Nephrology Nursing Journal:
The healing environment.(President's Message)(healthy work environment and healthy patient relations)
Sep 01, 2009; ... How is healing defined? It is a word that often means different things to different people. I believe that healing is more than simply curing. In a study to determine a definition of healing, Egnew (2005) found that healing was associated with the themes of wholeness, narrative, and ...
Future trends in diabetes management.(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Since the discovery of insulin in the 1920s, numerous therapeutic and technological advances have improved the lives of patients with diabetes mellitus. Additionally, results from large clinical trials have shown that intensive blood glucose control with diet, exercise, and medications can ...
Understanding diabetes mellitus and kidney disease.(Continuing Nursing Education)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem that has reached epidemic proportions. The statistics on diabetes are staggering, with nearly 24 million people in the U.S., or 8% of the population, having diabetes. This is an increase of more than 3 million people in the last two years ....
Periodontal disease--the overlooked diabetes complication.(Continuing Nursing Education)(Report)
Sep 01, 2009; ... "He had one peculiar weakness, he had faced death in many forms but he had never faced a dentist." --H.G. Wells (p. 75) Diabetes mellitus is a chronic, incurable modern epidemic that affects more than 171 million individuals globally (Wild, Roglic, Green, Sicree, & ...
Diabetes and kidney disease.(From the Editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Diabetes is a major problem in the United States. Over 24 million children and adults (almost 8% of the population as a whole) have diabetes, and another 57 million have prediabetes and are likely to develop the disease unless they make lifestyle changes. More than 1.6 million new cases of ...