Nephrology Nursing Clinical 1: Chronic Kidney Disease NSNN 7300

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain transition theory as a concept relevant to clients experiencing chronic kidney disease (CKD) Stages 1-5 who are not on a renal replacement therapy.
• Apply critical thinking and life-long learning strategies to determine their own learning needs in a clinical setting.
• Describe the role of multidisciplinary team members pertaining to the management and care for clients with CKD.
• Summarize modalities of renal replacement therapy.
• Describe the principles of chronic kidney disease management aimed at maintaining or promoting a client’s current health and preparing for renal replacement therapy.
• Conduct interviews with clients in a clinical setting in order to determine the needs of clients in CKD care.
• Using the principles of adult education, assist individuals in managing their experience of CKD.
• Identify and interpret common laboratory, radiological and diagnostic investigations and monitoring results correlated to CKD.
• Using critical decision making skills, decide on an appropriate intervention for a client based on their clinical reports.
• Describe the basic concepts of renal pharmacology.
• Identify and describe the pharmacology of agents commonly used specifically in CKD care.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023