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Nephrology nursing: past and future.

Publication: Nephrology Nursing Journal
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Nephrology nursing: past and future.(From the Editor)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
It's hard to believe that our association is 40 years old, and harder even still for me to imagine that it's been almost that long since I first set foot into a dialysis and transplant unit. My first exposure to nephrology nursing was as a senior student nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1970 doing an independent study. Little did I know that I was seeing the beginnings of my clinical nursing career. I just thought it would be interesting to see what was happening behind those closed doors, and so I followed a patient through the transplant process. I saw the patient being dialyzed pre-transplant, but I must admit that I didn't really understand what I was seeing. The patient received a kidney from a living-related donor. The...



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