Abstracts Selected for Presentation at 2013 ANNA National Symposium

A list of the abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2013 National Symposium appears below. Click on a title to access the full text of the abstract.

• Special Nursing Needs for Patients with HeRO Grafts (R. Allen & E. Ladenheim)
• Bridging the Gap from Evidence to Practice Blood Transfusion During Hemodialysis: An Evidence-Based Procedure (D. Ashton & M. Jaime)
• Venous Needle Dislodgement in Hemodialysis (B. Axley, J. Speranze-Reid, & H. Williams)
• Updated Safety Results from EXIST-2 (J. Bissler et al.)
• Everolimus, an Oral mTOR Inhibitor, for the Treatment of Renal Angiomyolipoma (AML) Associated With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) or Sporadic Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (sLAM): Adverse Event (AE) Management Strategies (E.J. Coombs et al.)
• Dose Alterations and Hemoglobin Control in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Dialysis (S. Doss-McQuitty, H. Tang, S. Tong, N. Oestreicher, A. Yang, & B. Spinowitz)
• Time to Initial Peginesatide Dose Stability in Hemodialysis Patients (S. Doss-McQuitty, W. Wang, S. Tong, A. Yang, N. Oestreicher, & B. Schiller)
• Helpless to Self Reliance: A Pediatric Dialysis Patient's Story (D. Eisele, C. Boucher, L. Alber, & S. Indilicato)
• Spirituality and its Effect on Quality of Life: the Lived Experience of ESRD Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis (S. Estabillo, D. Crummy, & B. Taylor)
• Transition: Critical Care Nurse to Dialysis Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (L. Ford & E. Santa-Teresa)
• Hemoglobin Trends in Incident End-Stage Renal Disease Patients from 2008-2012 (I. Goykhman, J. Weldon, S. Sibbel, R.S. Brown, A. Nissenson, & M. Krishnan)
• Extracellular Volume Control In Dialysis Patients To Reduce Hospitalizations (I. Goykhman et al.)
• Hypertension in Haitian Immigrants Living in the Dominican Republic: An Investigation of Rural Sugar Cane Communities (T. Kear)
• Implementation of Electrolytically-Produced Sodium Hypochlorite Protocol Improved Peritonitis Rates (T. Milligan & J. Moran)
• Decreasing Peritonitis Rate in Peritoneal Dialysis Results in Lower Mortality and Technique Failure (T. Milligan, J. Moran, & P. Cha)
• Successful Development of a Hospital-based Apheresis Program Utilizing Hemodialysis Nurses (O. Moses, N. Cole, & S. Rifkin)
• Step-Wise Approach to the Development and Implementation of a Vascular Access (VA) Plan (L. Poole & D.S. Parikh)
• Effectiveness Testing of Patient Educational Materials (A. Ramirez)
• A Nurse-Led Telephonic Self-Management Program: Quality of Life, Prevalence and Severity of Commonly Reported Symptoms and Readmissions among Adult Patients Newly Diagnosed with ESRD and on Hemodialysis (C. Rape, L. Morgan, C. Bartlett, & T. Deaton)
• Camp BRIDGES and its Effect on Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients and Their Families (C. Richards)
• Infection prevention education in Middle-Africa: A challenging project (M. Roden, N. Van Paesschen, & C. Tielemans)
• Living on Dialysis-Quality of life and Clinical Variables of Patients on Hemodialysis and Hemodiafiltration (S. Sivaji)
• RN Staffing and Workload, Dialysis Work Environment, Processes of Nursing Care and Patient Safety Culture in Outpatient Hemodialysis Facilities (C. Thomas-Hawkin & L. Flynn)
• Patient Safety Culture and Nurse-Reported Adverse Patient Events in Outpatient Hemodialysis Facilities (C. Thomas-Hawkin & L. Flynn)
• Optimizing Blood Flow Rate in Hemodialysis Catheters: Heparin vs 4% Na Citrate (S. Thompson)
• 2012 Nephrology AP Salary and Benefits Survey (B. Weis)

*Abstracts appear in alphabetical order by presenter as submitted.