This session describes the natural history and presentation of someone with both acute and chronic hepatitis C infection and the investigations required.
This session will provide an overview of the anatomy of the spleen, and the aetiology and management of splenic trauma.
This session outlines the diagnosis and management of traumatic and non-traumatic CNS aetiologies and extracranial aetiologies of coma and the principles of assessment of brain stem death and understand its relevance to continued life support and organ donation.
This course intends to equip nurses with knowledge on vaccine storage.
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Morbidity and mortality are associated with malnutrition. Parenteral nutrition (PN) is instituted to prevent or correct malnutrition. The laboratory indicators to assess malnutrition are altered by many factors such as inflammation. Identifying these factor markers and using additional methods to assess malnutrition provide an a....
Using plastic haemodialysis cannulas in home dialysis patients
The complexities of managing remote home dialysis patients in Australia
This course discusses basic concepts of good nutrition, common nutritional deficiencies, causes of undernutrition, and the magnitude of the problem. It also outlines the major population-based interventions to improve nutritional status, as well as key indicators for measuring and monitoring progress in nutrition.
Good outcomes can be achieved in the management of Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) patients through continuous quality improvement. Regular audits, data collection and reviews of practice should be a priority in PD units to ensure best practice targets are met.
A study comparing the effects on renal anaemia with ferric carboxymaltose and iron polymaltose.
A summary review of KHA-CARI guidelines of infection control for haemodialysis units.
Using the Chain of Survival to manage Haemodialysis Patients during Cardiac Arrest
Different interventions that can be used to improve the outcomes of vascular access
Improving vascular access outcomes
Renal nurses are increasingly exposed to patients with renal complications related to chemotherapy. In addition, more patients with existing renal impairment are treated with cyotoxic drugs.
A review on benefits, impacting factors, preserving strategies especially haemodialysis-related factors and strategies and clinical practice implications of residual renal function among patients on haemodialysis.
A scoping review evaluating the current literature regarding cannulation practices in haemodialysis
This webinar will discuss tips, tricks and mistakes to avoid when designing patient education materials for people with CKD. Learn best practice techniques and view some examples of well-designed materials.
This presentation will explain what is health literacy and why it is contextual. It will also argue for why health literacy is fundamental to renal nursing practice.
For patients with both diabetes and kidney disease they are managing two chronic diseases and have high complication rates. Dual transplantation of both the pancreas and kidney offers excellent outcomes to manage both diseases, and is available in specialist centres in Australia.
To provide front line staff with new knowledge re trials that have shown benefit in patients with diabetic and non-diabetic CKD. Secondarily to provide information regarding new trials underway in patients with kidney disease.
A quantitative study report comparing individual and group chronic kidney disease education
A scoping review sought to determine if it has been previously been reported that renal nurses who use point-of-care ultrasound communicate specific patient findings.
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws have been passed in all Australian states and New Zealand, giving people who meet the eligibility criteria the option to ask for medical help to end their life. But how does VAD work when there is a life-sustaining treatment such as dialysis where a patient isn't usually expected to die within....
Indigenous patients and their health rights