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Abstracts from the 47th ANNA National Symposium

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The following are just a few abstracts that are available at the 47th ANNA National Symposium in Louisville. They demonstrate how quality improvement projects and education techniques can change patient care.

• Providing peritoneal dialysis in elderly patients

Modality seminar for CKD patients helps increase PD use

• Improving the efficiency of the pre-kidney transplant evaluation process

Patients can get on the transplant waitlist sooner by streamlining the evaluation process.

• Quality improvement project removes barriers to hand hygiene in dialysis clinics, reduces infections

After discovering their hand hygiene compliance rate was only 55%, the nursing staff on a nephrology inpatient unit decided to embark on a quality improvement project to increase compliance and prevent further complications in their already fragile patient population. -by Rebecca Zumoff