Specialty Nursing Nephrology Presents

An Introduction to Managing Kidney Health

Recent studies show that kidney disease is on the rise in Canada and throughout the world. In 2006 over 30,000 patients in Canada required renal replacement therapy, with this number expected to double within 10 years. In B.C. alone, over 145,000 people have some form of chronic kidney disease. Worse still, kidney disease can complicate or lead to a number of other serious health conditions including anemia, hypertension and diabetic vascular changes.

BCIT is again offering its popular, one-day, interactive workshop, aimed at providing health care practitioners with a comprehensive overlook at kidney disease and healthy kidney function.

Topics covered include:

• Healthy kidney function, kidney dysfunction and the impact of impaired kidney function
• The connections and complications of co-morbidities such as diabetes or cardiac disease on renal disease
• The progression and associated signs and symptoms of kidney disease
• Basic renal specific assessment, basic renal lab values and the renal pharmacology associated with maintaining kidney function
• Strategies to delay the development or progression of kidney disease
• Renal replacement options
• Care of dialysis patients
• Renal diets as they relate to lab values and prolonging kidney function.

This workshop is designed for:

• Non-renal registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, care aids and allied health professionals working in acute, community and residential care facilities
• Health care providers unfamiliar with the complexities of renal disease and the effects of kidney disease on the body
• Health care providers who want to know how to support individuals living with kidney disease or who wish to learn how to delay the progression of renal disease.

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