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Health Science and Technology (Dialysis)

Nau mai, Haere mai ki te Whare Mātauranga. Welcome to our Grad Dip in Health Science & Technology (Dialysis) Subject Guide.

Where to look on the shelves

Nutrition	613.2
Diseases -Kidney	616.61
Human anatomy & physiology	611-612
Renal dialysis/ nursing	617.461059

Key resources

Review the relevant chapters in your key textbooks.

Core curriculum for nephrology nurisng by Caroline Counts
Dewey Number: 616.61 COR
Publication Date: 2008
Core curriculum for the dialysis technician: A comprehensive reivew of hemodialysis by Medical Education Institute
Dewey Number: 617.461059 COR
Publication Date: 2014
Fluid and electrolyte balance (4th ed.) by Norma M. Metheny
Publication Date: 2010

You will find 2 copies of the revised 5th ed. on the shelves at 616.3992 MET.

Nutrition therapy

Nutrition in kidney disease by Laura D. Byham-Gray et al.
Dewey Number: 616.6106 NUT
Publication Date: 2016
Williams' essentials of nutrition and diet therapy by Eleanor Schlenker et al.
Dewey Number: 613.2 SCH
Publication Date: 2014

Useful chapter: Renal disease.

Psychosocial perspectives

Kidney disease management: A practical approach for the non-specialist healthcare practitioner by Rachel Lewis et al.
Dewey Number: 616.61 KID
Publication Date: 2013

Useful chapter: Psychosocial aspects of living with chronic kidney disease
Renal nursing by Nicola Thomas
Dewey Number: 616.614 REN
Publication Date: 2014

Useful chapter: Psychological perspectives
Psychosocial aspects of end-stage renal disease: Issues of our times by Mark A. Hardy et al.
Publication Date: 2014

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