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Principles of Nursing in Kidney Care

Under the Auspices of EDTNA/ERCA and EKPF

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  • © 2024

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  • Provides updated information about renal patient care in all stages
  • Delivers evidence-based nursing practice
  • Provides European standards in renal care written by Board Members of EDTNA/ERCA

Part of the book series: Principles of Specialty Nursing (PSN)

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About this book

This textbook, endorsed by EDTNA/ERCA and ESNO, provides unique evidence-based knowledge about nursing in renal care and harmonises specialised understandings from various countries, to be implemented across numerous national health systems.

Renal care nursing is essential in order to promote and prevent renal health as well as detect and contribute to the care of renal disease. These complex tasks require specialised knowledge and training to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes in patient care. This book describes in detail the highest quality practices in different stages of the disease. Twenty-three chapters reflect evidence-based or consensus in practise, covering management and treatment in patient centred care procedures. Combining expert knowledge from many countries, this textbook can be used for teaching new staff in renal care as well as reviewing and updating renal care expertise.

Technological developments have significantly expanded in recent years. In this context renal nurses are responsible not only for individualised, comprehensive, and complex patient care, but also advanced technical skills such as haemodialysis treatment, which require close monitoring of patients to ensure safety. Infection prevention and control is vital throughout patient care. In addition, advanced renal nursing skills have been established for the assessment and management of renal disease.  

The textbook is unique as in one single volume there is evidence, up to date and rigorous data describing different types of renal care therefore it is possible to concept a holistic vision of CKD patients as well as the nursing perspective.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Nursing, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Afra MasiĆ -Plana

  • Haemodialysis Unit, The General Hospital of Kefalonia, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece

    Anastasia Liossatou

About the editors

Afra MasiĆ -Plana, Registered Nurse since 2002, Psychologist, masterā€™s in psychology and research, postgraduate on health management and PhD on quality of life in patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis (2019). She worked as a registered nurse since 2002 in Spain and 5 years in Brisbane (Australia) and specify on hemodialysis. Currently, she is  a Scientific board member of EDTNA/ERCA, post-doc fellow lecturer at the faculty of nursing in the University of Girona, Spain. Also  she is associate lecturer at the bachelorā€™s degree of physiotherapy from the University of Girona, Spain.


Anastasia Liossatou, Head Nurse at the Haemodialysis Unit, General Hospital of Kefalonia , Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece has 25 years experience of which 22 in the nephrology field. Anastasia was trained as a nephrology nurse at the General Hospital of Papageorgiou, Thessaloniki, Greece. Her background is in haematology and hypertension while she was working at TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool  & St Georges Hospital, London, UK. She holds a masterā€™s degree in Nursing from the University of Liverpool, UK and a Diploma in Education.  Anastasia has been an EDTNA/ ERCA volunteer since 2003, serving the Association from various roles such as an EDTNA/ERCA Newsletter & Journal Co-Editor and the Chair of the EDTNA/ ERCA Scientific Programme Committee. In 2018, she joined the EDTNA/ERCA Executive Committee (EC), where she has undertaken the role of the Publications Coordinator. She has also contributed as an Editor and author to several guidebooks published by EDTNA/ERCA, and has presented many times at the EDTNA/ERCA conferences. Currently, Anastasia is undertaking her PhD at the Department of Nursing, The University of Peloponnese, Tripoli Greece.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles of Nursing in Kidney Care

  • Book Subtitle: Under the Auspices of EDTNA/ERCA and EKPF

  • Editors: Afra MasiĆ -Plana, Anastasia Liossatou

  • Series Title: Principles of Specialty Nursing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30320-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30319-7Published: 02 April 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30322-7Due: 03 May 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30320-3Published: 01 April 2024

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-8768

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 373

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nursing Management, Nephrology, Physiology

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