Advancing kidney dietitians in research
We have set up a webpage to help enable more kidney dietitians to take part in and to publicise research. At present it has tips for submitting an abstract, and we plan to add more information.
We have also set aside some budget for burseries to help with the cost of attending conferences.
Find our webpage entitled Abstracts, Conferences and Bursaries. Please contact us if you have requests for content, or would like to contribute.
Practical Guide to Renal dietetics
This workbook has 2 sections (10 chapters) completed and uploaded to the website for ready for use, covering background kidney knowledge and CKD 1-5. It has been designed to supplement pre registration learning, but is staged so that it is also useful for qualified dietitians wanting to learn about Renal Nutrition. See more here
Barbara Engel and Claire Gardiner lead on this project, and are inviting expressions of interest to work with them in developing further chapters. If you would like to contribute to the planned work on Transplantation, AKI, Biochemistry, Malnutrition, Nephrotic Syndrome, Renal Stones or UKM, please get in touch. [email protected]
Dietetic competencies
Fluid and Salt, and Undernutrition competencies are completed and uploaded to the website under Education / Competencies here. Potassium Management and CKD-MBD Management are almost ready to upload, and Diabetes and CKD Competencies are being written. AKI competencies are planned. Fiona Willingham leads the working group.
MSc Module in Renal Nutrition
Barbara Engel has developed an MSc Module, extended from the current clinical update course. There is still ongoing work on finding a university to host the module and other details, such as the transferability (Recognition of Prior Learning). Please contact us if you would like to be involved.