ANNA Journal articles from December 1999

ANNA Journal archives from December 1999

Assessing Your Potential to Become a Leader.
December 1, 1999... Assessing Your Potential to Become a Leader A constant challenge for the American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA) leadership is the identification of future leaders. It is frustrating at all levels of the association trying to recruit...

Caring for the Elderly with Renal Failure: Gastrointestinal Changes.
December 1, 1999... Caring for elderly individuals with renal failure can be a challenging and difficult responsibility. Specific changes that occur as a result of renal failure can have a direct effect on several body systems, including circulatory,...

A Clinical Project to Evaluate Reuse of a CAPD Disconnect System Minicap as a Safe, Effective Practice.
December 1, 1999... The current health care environment has changed drastically over the past several years. Demonstrating cost-effectiveness while maintaining positive patient outcomes is the challenge that clinical nephrology practice must directly confront....

Exploration of Factors that Impact Mode of Death in the Hemodialysis Patient.
December 1, 1999... Hemodialysis patients' modes of death have implications for themselves, their significant others, and health care providers. For physical and psychological needs of hemodialysis patients and significant others to be met, it is important to...

Exploration of Factors That Impact Mode of Death in Hemodialysis Patients.
December 1, 1999... Research Critique The investigator used both a quantitative and qualitative design to examine factors that might influence the unintentional or intentional mode of death in hemodialysis patients. The findings revealed that though...

Effects of Psychosocial Education on Adaptation in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients.
December 1, 1999... As the geriatric population of our society increases, the number of chronic illnesses that demand a change in adaptive systems also increases, causing a tremendous amount of stress. The elderly population, with many psychosocial changes within...

Does Iron Cause Bacterial Infections in Patients With End Stage Renal Disease?
December 1, 1999... The combination of erythropoietin (EPO) and intravenous (IV)iron therapies has improved anemia management of patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) (Fishbane, Frei, & Maesaka, 1995). These improvements may result in decreased mortality...

NEW PRODUCTS.
December 1, 1999... RenalWEB Resource Is Available to Dialysis Community RenalWEB is a new information and communication resource for the dialysis community that clearly demonstrates the instant publishing capabilities and advantages provided by the Internet....

Putting the Pleasure Back into Eating for the Elderly on a Maintenance Hemodialysis Diet!
December 1, 1999... Q: Several of our elderly patients tell us that they just don't enjoy eating anymore. We try to encourage them to eat more so they will gain weight and do better. What can we do to help put the pleasure back into eating for them? A: It is...

Factors associated with unplanned hospital readmission among patients 65 years and older in a Medicare managed care plan.
December 1, 1999... Marcantonio, E.R., McKean, S., Goldfinger, M., Kleefield, S., Yurkofsky, M., & Brennan, T.A. (1999). Factors associated with unplanned hospital readmission among patients 65 years and older in a Medicare managed care plan. American Journal of...

Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalized elders: A randomized clinical trial.
December 1, 1999... Naylor, M.D., Brooten, D., Campbell, R., Jacobsen, B.S., Mezey, M.D., Pauly, M.V., & Schwartz, J.S. (1999). Comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up of hospitalized elders: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA, 281(7), 613-620. ...

The effect of cognitive status on outcomes following rehabilitation.
December 1, 1999... Resnick, B., & Daly, M.P. 0997). The effect of cognitive status on outcomes following rehabilitation. Family Medicine, 29(6), 400-405. Summary. This study followed 181 elderly patients who had sustained a cerebrovascular accident or...

Manual of Gerontologic Nursing, 2d ed.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Manual of Gerontologic Nursing By Charlotte Eliopoulos Second Edition, 1999 Mosby, Inc. 11830 Westline Industrial Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 446 pages, soft cover, $34.95 As those of us who work in the dialysis field look at the age of our...

Basic Geriatric Nursing, 2d ed.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Basic Geriatric Nursing By Gloria Hoffmann Wold Second Edition, 1999 Mosby, Inc. 11830 Westline Industrial Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 387 pages, soft cover, $24.95 This text presents nursing of the geriatric client in a succinct, positive...

Pocket Guide to Gerontologic Assessment.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Pocket Guide to Gerontologic Assessment By Annette Giesler Lueckenotte Third Edition, 1998 Mosby, Inc. 11830 Westline Industrial Drive St. Louis, MO 63246 399 pages, soft cover, $22.95 This comprehensive manual has been designed and written...

Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Responses.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Responses By Patricia Ebersole & Patricia Hess Fifth Edition, 1998 Mosby -- Year Book, Inc. 11830 Westline Industrial Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 1132 pages, hard cover, $57.00 Drs. Ebersole and...

Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference By Kathleen Deska Pagana and Timothy James Pagana Fourth Edition, 1999 Mosby Inc. 11830 Westline Industrial Dr. St. Louis, MO 63146 967 pages, soft cover, $27.95 The 4th edition of Mosby's...

Gerontological Nursing: A Health Promotion Approach.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Gerontological Nursing: A Health Promotion Approach By Mickey Stanley and Patricia Gauntlet Beare Second Edition, 1999 F.A. Davis Company 1915 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 374 pages, soft cover, $35.95 Gerontological Nursing: A...

Improving Adequacy of Dialysis: Using In-Series Dialyzers.
December 1, 1999... Patient Profile W.T., a 43-year-old male, began on hemodialysis in 1996 for membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN). His height was 5'10" and his weight 330 lbs. He supported his wife and 3 children by working as a security guard....

Preserving the Art of Nephrology Nursing.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Re-engineering at Winthrop-University Hospital was initiated in response to the changing needs of the institution and the health care industry. Maintaining a focus of optimal patient care, the hemodialysis registered nurse (RN) position would...

Correction: October 1999 Issue.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 1999... In the October 1999 issue of ANNA Journal, the name of Elizabeth W. Bayley, PhD, RN, was inadvertently omitted as a co-author of the feature article, "Perceptions of Kidney Transplant by Persons with End Stage Renal Disease" (see volume 26,...

Categorizing the Response to Epoetin alfa Therapy.
December 1, 1999... Case Study of the Anemic Patient Ten years of clinical experience have proven the safety and efficacy of Epoetin alfa therapy (National Kidney Foundation, 1997). One of the continuing challenges that face clinical nurses who coordinate...