A list of the abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2011 ANNA National Symposium appears below. Click on a title to access the full text of the abstract.

• The Experiences of Black American Living Kidney Donors (Adams-Leander, S.)
• Team Care in Preparing Patients with Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease for Renal Replacement Therapy (Adkins, J,. et al.)
• Reducing Behavior-Based Missed Hemodialysis Treatments (Best, S., et al.)
• Cardiac Rehabilitation and its Role in the Care of  Chronic Kidney Disease Patients (Byrne, G., et al.)
• Factors Affecting State Policies to Support Family Caregivers (Ceccarelli, C.)
• Impact of a Switch to Synchronised Once-monthly ESA Administration on Nurses’ Workplace Satisfaction (Chow, J., et al.)
• The Implementation of Assistant in Nursing Workforce in Haemodialysis Units (Chow, J., et al.)
• Reducing Hypoglycemic Episodes (Dildine, S.)
• Using the Electronic Medical Record for Improving Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness and Promote AV Fistulas as the Initial Hemodialysis Access: A Hospital Initiative (Dillard, C.)
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Caring for the Dialysis Patient (Faber, J., et al.)
• The Peritoneal Dialysis Kit: How to Prevent an Emergency in the Emergency Room (Farina, J., et al.)
• Dialysis Modality Decision Making With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research (Harwood, L., et al.)
• The Perpetual Novice - A Cultural Exploration of Vascular Access Cannulation Among Nurses in a Chronic Hemodialysis Unit (Harwood, L., et al.)
• Creating a Patient Care Buddy Program to Improve Outcomes (Hellebrand, A.)
• The Benefits of a Central Venous Catheter (CVC) to Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) Catheter Conversion Program (Isambert, M., et al.)
• How to Tame a Dragon: Implementing a New Nursing Model in a Busy Hospital-Based Hemodialysis Unit to Improve Communication, Patient Care and Safety (Jensen, L., et al.)
• Bridging the Gap of Diabetes Knowledge in Hemodialysis Nurses (Lee-Yu, N.)
• Can Music Provide Pain Relief During Vascular Access Cannulation for Hemodialysis? (Luna, M., et al.)
• Stories of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): Listening for the Un-say(able) (Makaroff, K.)
• Storying and Re-stor(y)ing End Stage Renal Disease (Makaroff, K., et al.)
• Preservation of the AV Fistula Using Buttonhole (BH) Cannulation (McNeil, P.)
• Improving Medication Access to Reduce Disparities by a Large Dialysis Provider (Milligan, T., et al.)
• Needs Assessment and Implementation for Providing Modality Options Education by a Large Dialysis Provider (Milligan, T., et al.)
• Haemodiafiltration Revisited (Moynahan, L., et al.)
• The Use of Narratives in Chronic Kidney Disease (Murphy, F.)
• Structural Empowerment, Psychological Empowerment, and Burnout in Registered Staff Nurses Working in Outpatient Dialysis Centers (O’Brien, J.)
• The Effects of a Formal Mentoring Program on Clinical Manager Retention (Palearas, A)
• A Collaborative Approach to the Transition of Adolescent Renal Transplant Recipients to Adult Care Providers (Palmer, J.)
• In-center Nocturnal Hemodialysis leads to Improved Serum Phosphorus (PO4) Levels (Provenzano, R., et al.)
• Single Dose Intravenous Ferric Carboxymaltose: Impact on a Nurse-Led Intravenous Iron Clinic for Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease (Pugh-Clarke, K.)
• Algorithm for Pediatric Transplant Recipients Using the KDIGO Guidelines to Enhance Clinical Outcomes (Richards, C.)
• Camp BRIDGES and its Effect on Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients and Their Families (Richards, C.)
• Intradialytic Hypertension: A Case Study of an Often Unrecognized and Overlooked Reaction to the Initiation of Hemodialysis (Rieth, R.)
• Motivational Interviewing in Dialysis Adherence Study (MIDAS) (Russell, C., et al.)
• Maximizing Patient Safety through Education & Visibility of Vascular Access Site for Hemodialysis Patients (Saibu, R., et al.)
• Symptomatic Hypotension, Venous Oximetry and Outpatient Hemodialysis (Smith, H.P.)
• Patient Safety and Hemodialysis Catheters (Tyksienski, C.)
• The Tragedy of Venous Needle Dislodgement: How to Minimize the Risks (Van Waeleghem, J.)

*Abstracts appear in alphabetical order by presenter as submitted.