{"title":"End-of-life issues affect nephrology nursing practice daily.","authors":"B B Germino, L C Dinwiddie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 6","pages":"567-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21060791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative analysis between centrifuged hematocrit and \"point-of-care\" hemoglobin: impact on erythropoietin dosing.","authors":"M Marooney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this CQI project was to examine the degree of anemia among our dialysis population and compare centrifuged hematocrits (HCTs) with point-of-care HemoCue hemoglobin (HGB) for accuracy and to assess any differences in patient outcomes. It was concluded that the point-of-care HemoCue HGB was more accurate than the centrifuged HCT when compared to the laboratory method. It was further concluded that accurate weekly results facilitated more appropriate patient EPO dosages, which in turn influenced patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"479-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A prospective study of adjustment to hemodialysis.","authors":"E L Lev, S V Owen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine (a) changes in subjects' self-care self-efficacy over time and (b) the relationship of subjects' self-care self-efficacy with adjustment to hemodialysis.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A longitudinal design was used to study changes in self-care self-efficacy and associations between self-care self-efficacy and measures of adjustment: health status, mood distress, symptom distress, dialysis stress, and perceived adherence to fluid restriction.</p><p><strong>Sample/setting: </strong>Subjects were recruited from 8 settings in the Northeast where outpatient hemodialysis treatment was administered. Sixty-four subjects were recruited to the study. Twenty-eight subjects completed 3 occasions of data collection.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected on three occasions: (a) baseline-within 100 days of beginning treatment; (b) 4 months after beginning treatment; and (c) 8 months after beginning treatment. Eta-squared, a measure of practical significance, is reported for four factors of the self-care self-efficacy measure on each of the three occasions. Associations between self-care self-efficacy and measures of adjustment were examined by means of Pearson correlations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eta-squared estimates showed generally positive changes occurring over time in subjects' self-care self-efficacy, health status, mood distress, symptom distress, dialysis stress, and perceived adherence to fluid restriction. Changes were more positive at 4-months than at 8-months after enrollment. Significant correlations (p < .05) occurred between self-care self-efficacy and mood states, health status, symptom distress, and perceived adherence to fluid restrictions. Correlations occurred more frequently between self-care self-efficacy and mood states than between self-care self-efficacy and other measures of adjustment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study provided pilot data suggesting that hemodialysis patients' self-care self-efficacy and measures of adjustment change over time. Patients who had increased confidence in self-care strategies (self-efficacy) were associated with having more positive mood states, health status, and perceived adherence to fluid restrictions and less symptom distress. Interventions designed to increase patients' self-care self-efficacy may yield positive results. Nurses are in an excellent position to give efficacy enhancing feedback that may promote patients' adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"495-504; discussion 505-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traveling through the decades: a special relationship between a pediatric nephrology nurse and a young adult.","authors":"R Frank","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The young adult that M.K. has become is in part of a result of the supportive relationship that I established with M.K. and her family over a decade ago. Viewing M.K. as a part of a family unit and not just as an isolated patient enabled the entire nephrology team to assist the family in dealing with the monumental medical problems that they have confronted. I am proud of the young woman that M.K. has become, and I am gratified by the relationship that we have shared for the past 16 years. It is this type of relationship that reminds me of why I decided to become a nurse many years ago.</p>","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"539-40, 544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANNA Directory of Nephrology Nurse Researchers: Second Edition.","authors":"A E Molzahn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"507-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P R Frederick, D L Frankenfield, M G Biddle, T W Sims
{"title":"Changes in dialysis units' quality improvement practices from 1994 to 1996.","authors":"P R Frederick, D L Frankenfield, M G Biddle, T W Sims","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1994, the Health Care Financing Administration initiated a nationwide effort to improve care to Medicare's end stage renal disease (ESRD) beneficiaries by reshaping the manner in which the ESRD Network Organizations measure and assess the quality of dialysis services. The new approach was named the ESRD Health Care Quality Improvement Program (HCQIP). It embodies themes such as the development of quality indicators and support for continuous improvement. Projects such as the ESRD Core Indicators Project and the National Anemia Cooperative Project are geared toward assisting dialysis providers to improve patient care. In an effort to document changes in dialysis quality practices associated with the ESRD HCQIP, surveys were sent by Network staff to the head nurses of all dialysis units in 1994, and a random sample of units in 1996. Analysis of the survey responses was performed identifying self-reported changes in dialysis units' quality improvement activities. Results indicate that practice changes are taking place, that they are generalizable to all dialysis units in the country, and that they are associated with improvement in patient outcomes. Trends in quality improvement activities are identified and conclusions are drawn about what impact these activities have on patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"469-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A prospective study of adjustment to hemodialysis","authors":"Molzahn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"505-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real world caring.","authors":"C E Latham","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation: patient issues and nursing interventions.","authors":"P Conway, C Davis, T Hartel, G Russell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing care across the service delivery continuum is essential for patients undergoing simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation. The self-management of complicated treatment choices and care regimens requires education and support, which are the domain of transplant nursing coordinators. Even successful transplantation is associated with complications in the first 6 months. Continuous posttransplant nursing interventions to monitor patients, teach and reinforce self-care, and support adjustment is crucial to patient well-being. This article describes nursing strategies used at one transplant center to address these patient needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":76998,"journal":{"name":"ANNA journal","volume":"25 5","pages":"455-60, 478; quiz 461-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20795363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}