Care of Nephrology Patient in Today’s World
08.30 – 09.00 | Coffee and Registration | |
09.00 – 09.05 | Opening Address | Ms. Emer Kenny ANP INNA President |
09.05 – 10.30 | Chronic Kidney Disease | |
09.05 – 09.35 | Progression of Kidney Disease: Role of SGLT inhibitors | Dr Keseree Finnegan, GP Link, Wellstone |
09.35 – 10.05 | Mental Health and people with CKD (Includes coping mechanism for renal nurse’s to use to support all patients) | Aoife Smith (IKA) |
10.05 – 10.30 | The Practice Nurse and the Chronic Disease Management Programme | Ms. Debbie McDonald, Practice Nurse, Wexford |
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee | |
11.00 – 13.00 | Haemodialysis | |
11.00 – 11.40 | Management of medication in haemodialysis dependent inpatients (mainstream medications used in HD patients, what medications to withhold prior to dialysis, what can be given, what are flushed during dialysis). Audience is new nurses in Nephrology. | Dr Haider Ali, Nephrology Register, Tullamore Hospital |
11.40 – 12.15 | U/S Guiding Needling Cannulation & Endovascular AVF | Mr Julio Chevarria, Nephrology Consultant, TUH & Tullamore Hospital |
12.15 – 13.00 | AGM | |
13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00 – 16.30 | Peritoneal Dialysis and Transplant | |
14.00 – 14.40 | Transplantation in children | Dr Clodagh Sweeney (Via Zoom) |
14.40 – 15.15 | Patient suitability for PD, case studies of why patients choose PD over HD as initial dialysis, Patients transferring from HD to PD & patients who selected PD but transferred back to HD | Ms. Lorna Durack, Merlin Park |
15.15 – 15.45 | Hybrid HD and PD for patients not clearing on PD Changes in a patients treatment plan (Hybrid Care) and “Does PD have a role to play in Renal Conservative care” | Dr. Claire Kennedy, St. James Hospital |
15.45 – 16.15 | Patients lived experience of the transplant journey | Ms. Mary Knowles Tullamore |
16.15 – 16.30 | Evaluation, close of conference & distribution of Conference Certificates |