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Overcoming Barriers to Kidney Transplantation
By Genevieve Coorey, BSN, MA(Ed.). Coorey is the quality assurance and program director at the National Kidney Foundation and was the lead author of “Barriers to Preemptive Kidney Transplantation,”...
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A Chinese Dialysis Nurse’s Moving Story About Chronic Illness
“I’m preparing for the university entrance exam,” he often told me. He was upbeat and grateful, despite the disease. I admired him for his strength and spirit and felt terrible that he’d been...
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Breathing Training May Ease Depression in Dialysis Patients: Study Findings
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor It’s estimated that depression afflicts between 25% and 50% of people who have chronic kidney disease. And depression has been associated with numerous adverse...
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Revisiting Katrina’s Lessons 10 Years Out, from a Nursing Perspective
By Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans, August 29, 2005/ Wikimedia Commons This past week we’ve seen many media retrospectives on the devastation Hurricane...
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Dialysis Patients’ Very Different Life or Death Choices
Illustration by Barbara Hranilovich. All rights reserved. This month’s Reflections essay is called “Sitting with Death.” The subtitle provides a little context: A social worker on a dialysis unit bears...
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