• 'Sarcoid what? Granules what? I just thought I had a Bad Chest. I had no Idea how my Life was about to Change'
• A Collaborative Approach to Providing Pre-Dialysis Care for Aboriginal Patients
• A Skill Assessment Tool for Home Dialysis Staff
• A Workforce Vision for the Future
• Addressing Modifiable Risk In Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Through Comprehensive Nursing Outpatient Clinics
• Buttonhole Beginnings at Cranbourne Dialysis
• Buttonhole Cannulation: First Randomized Controlled Trial
• Can You Have Too Many Balloons? The Use of Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty in the Treatment of Stenoses
• CKD Tsunami Early Warning and Management System
• Clinical Experience with Lanthanum, Sevelamer and Cinacalcet at a Regional Dialysis Unit
• Collaborative Care for Haemodialysis Patients in Residential Aged Care Facilities
• Developing a Patient Teaching Program for the Commencement of PD
• Developing the Model of Care in a Hospital Haemodialysis Unit
• Diabetes and Obesity...Do we have enough Dialysis Machines?
• Electrical Safety in Home Haemodialysis – Do We Comply?
• Empowerment Through Education: Involving the Practice Nurse in CKD
• Evaluation of Trace Elements Status in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease Undergoing Long Term Hemodialysis
• Growing Pains
• Happy Birthday Kidney Health Australia - A Celebration of 40 years of Sharing the Caring
• Have you got Rocks in your Head? A Case Review
• Heparin Free Haemodialysis with Blood Transfusion
• Impacts on Patients with Extended Dialysis Therapy by Manipulating Dialysate Calcium Concentration, Control Serum Phosphate Levels and Induction of Rocaltol Treatment
• Improving Patient Understanding of Phosphate Binders: A Bony Challenge!
• In-Centre Dialysis Nurse Stress is Different to Satellite Dialysis Nurse Stress
• Infection Control Bugs Everyone
• Interdialytic Weight Gain: The Transition to Acceptance
• Interventional Nephrology: A Horizon of Clinical Practice in Dialysis Access Management
• Keeping Up Project – An Exercise-Based Falls Prevention Program Managed by Exercise Physiologists for Patients Receiving In-Centre Haemodialysis
• Kidney Evaluation for You (KEY)
• Measuring Activity Levels in Pre-Dialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Haemodialysis and Transplant Patients
• Medicine Self-Management in Consumers with Diabetic Kidney Disease and Associated Comorbidities
• Multiresistant Organisms are on the Increase
• Needle-Free Administration of Epoetin Beta in Haemodialysis Patients: An Occupational Health and Safety Initiative
• Nurses’ Dry Weight Assessment of Chronic Haemodialysis Patients
• Pathology for Renal Nurses: The When, Why and How of Testing in a Pocket Guide
• Points of Contact: The Journey of People with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) from Diagnosis to Commencement of Dialysis
• Policy and Clinical Practice: An Audit Tool to Promote Compliance
• Pre-Dialysis Patient Tracking - Ensuring our Patients Have the Opportunity to Receive Timely Education, Access Creation and Dialysis Modality Choice
• RAN-Vic, Renal Access Nurses of Victoria Unite
• Renal Patients’ Satisfaction with Pre-dialysis Education
• Tandem Plasma Exchange and Haemodialysis for Patients Recieving ABO Incompatible or Highly Sensitied Renal Transplants
• The Bariatric Renal Patient...Greater than 180kgs
• The Buttonhole Technique: Some Hurdles to Conquer
• The Comfort Study: A Randomised, Cross-over Study Demonstrating Less Injection Site Pain and Patient Preference for Subcutaneous Epoetin Beta Compared with Subcutaneous Darbepoetin Alfa in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
• The Evolution of the Dialysis Access Coordinator: 2 Years Journey
• The Importance of Disaster Preparedness for Dialysis Centres
• The Lived Experience of Treatment for End Stage Kidney Disease for Aboriginal People: A Qualitative Study
• The Nephrology Educators Network...an Evolution
• The Nephrology Nurse Practitioner's Role in Promoting Medication Safety for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
• The Pain Control Practices of Consumers with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Tiwi Islands and Beyond: The Benefits of External Specialised Renal Course Placements
• Translumbar Central Venous Catheter – A New Experience for Our Haemodialysis Unit
• Using Grounded Theory Research to Uncover Expert Nephrology Nursing Knowledge
• Vascular Access Flow Measurement Variations According to Arterial Needle Orientation in Haemodialysis Patients
• Vascular Access Nurse - The Journey So Far
• Viable Vascular Access in the Peritoneal Dialysis Patient Population
• “Keeping Kidneys Healthy”: Laying the Foundations for the Amgen Indigenous Kidney Health Mission

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