For Professionals

In today's continuously evolving healthcare industry we need to know where to find the resources to provide quality care for our ESRD population.  Listed below are several links that may be helpful for your practice or your facility.

Some topics to consider for your patients starting dialysis are:

1. Treatment Options
2. Transplantation
3. Anatomy & Physiology
4. Diet & Nutrition

American Nephrology Nurses Association
National Association

BET (Black Entertainment Television) Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Often Occur Together
(webcast) video

BET (Black Entertainment Television) Diabetes and Your Kidneys
(article) Related webcast(video):Type 2 Diabetes: Is It More Than Just Blood Sugar?

BET (Black Entertainment Television) Hypertension Q&A
(article) Related webcast (video): Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Disease You Should Know About

BET (Black Entertainment Television) Kidney Failure Basics
Featured Video: Identifying Kidney Failure

Chumash ANNA Chapter Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Fernando Valley
Education, Health Policy Practice, Resources

DaVita Kidney Disease Education
This site is dedicated to providing information on CKD. Provides list of additional resources (I.e. additional articles, newsletters, classes).

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit
Developed by the American Diabetes Association, American College of Cardiology and Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. Comprehensive kit of reproducible patient education handouts on 26 topics related to diabetic CVD available in English and Spanish.

Fistula First
Clinical and organizational recommendations based on the best practices for increasing AV fistula use and improving hemodialysis patient outcomes.

Fistula First
Clinical and organizational recommendations based on the best practices for increasing AV fistula use and improving hemodialysis patient outcomes.

Healthy People 2010
Overview of goals and objectives for Chronic Kidney Disase by the year 2010.

High Blood Pressure
American Heart Association

Hispanics & New Medicare Drug Benefit
Kaiser Family Foundation: Minority Health

Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology
Hypertension, Dialysis, and Clinical Nephrology provides up-to-date, selected information on renal disorders and their treatment (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis), and about hypertension, dialysis, and clinical nephrology topics.

K/DOQI Guidelines
Definitions & Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease

K/DOQI Guidelines
Evaluation of Laboratory Measurments for clinical assessment of kidney disease.

K/DOQI Guidelines
Guidelines on Hypertension and Antihypertensive Agents in CKD

KidneyResource.com
Comprehensive listing of websites on CKD and ESRD. Designed to help people learn more about kidney disease and its associated syptoms.

Life Clinic
Article on Diabetic Kidney Disease. Discusses the stages of CKD and list of related articles.

Life Options
Information on Chronic Kidney Disease

Life Options
Is a program of research-based education that helps people live long and live well with kidney disease. A National panel of doctors, researchers, patients, nurses, social workers, etc. review materials and helps guide research.

Life Options - Kidney School(tm) Idea Guide
Idea guide for professionals in a 12 page pdf file titled, "38 No-Cost Ways to Use Kidney School(tm) for Patient Education."

Los Angeles ANNA Chapter
Education, Health Policy Practice, Resources

Medical News Today
Compilation of the latestarticles and reports related to health and medical news and presented to an internationsl health professionals. Has also avaible patient resources.

National Kidney Disease Education Program
CKD Overview, Tools & Resources, Laboratory Support, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Patient Education, Statistics, & Related Links.

National Kidney Disease Education Program
CKD Overview, Tools & Resources, Laboratory Support, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Patient Education, Statistics, & Related Links.

National Kidney Foudation
Focus on Prevention of Kidney Disease

National Kidney Foundation
Contains clinical tools that can be downloaded: GFR calculator, CKD Action Plan, Palm & Pocket PC Tools, Clinical Practice Guidelines, and ICD-9 Codes

National Kidney Foundation - KDOQI - Nutrition
Clinical practice guidelines for Nutrition in Chronic Renal Failure

National Kidney Foundation of Southern California
The official website for the NKF of So Cal.

National Kidney Foundation of Southern California - Events
Seminars and Social Events in California

National Kidney Foundation-Clinical Tools
Contains clinical tools that can be downloaded: GFR calculator, CKD Action Plan, Palm & Pocket PC Tools, Clinical Practice Guidelines, and ICD-9 Codes.

National Kidney Foundation-KDOQI Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines for healthcare professionals working in nephrology.

National Kidney Foundation-Professionals
Contains information for professionals working with Chronic Kidney Disease patients.

National Renal Administrators Association
Non-Profit - Managers of Dialysis Units Represents Interests of all Renal Facilities

Nephrology Linx
This site is part of MDLinx that connects health care professionals and patients to the latest in medical science and is an interactive site for pharmaceuticals and healthcare industries for marketing and research

Renal Info.
Website provides information on kidney disease/failure, including causes, symptoms, tests, and to help maintain health it also has a presentation of treatment options.

Renal Web
Functions as a "daily newspaper" with information on new products, services, and educational resources. Very user friendly and links to a wide rande of dialysis and non dialysis related sites. Excellent discussion board and forum for techs and nurses.

Renal World
Renal resources from around the globe. They place information by geographical location and are linked to a great variety of key sites. They have Nephron information, stories, news and updates on nephrology issues.

San Diego Nephros South ANNA Chapter
Education, Health Policy Practice, Resources

The Nephron Information Center
Has calculators for BMI, chronic kidney disease worksheet as in MDRD GFR calculator, Cockcroft Gault Calculator, GFR in children. Has links to many many other patient and professional oriented sites. PUB MED search also available from this site.

Think Cultural Health
Cultural competency continuing education programs from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

WebMD
A healthcare information service website for consumers physicians, employers and healthcare plans. Must do a search for specific topic I.e. chronic kidney disease, kidney failure.