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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
- Improving the efficiency of the pre-kidney transplant evaluation process
- Quality improvement project removes barriers to hand hygiene in dialysis clinics, reduces infections
Modality seminar for CKD patients helps increase PD use
Patients can get on the transplant waitlist sooner by streamlining the evaluation process.
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