Training successful home dialysis patients needs to include far more than how to use a machine. How can you support them to be competent and confident in their skills? In this course, you will learn how to tap into your patients’ motivation to help them go—and stay—home.
- Identify three ways to empower competent, confident patients
- Explain how to prioritize a working PD or HD access
- Discuss three ways to train patients (and care partners if present) for success
Nurses and Dialysis Technicians. (This course can serve as a home dialysis orientation for nephrologists and administrators )
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by Medical Education Institute, approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP-117088, for 1 contact hour.
Accreditation for this course expires October 31, 2026.
It is the responsibility of the learner to determine if these CE contact hours will be accepted by a particular licensing organization.
Nurse Planner – Steffanie Gissal, BSN
Authors – Jennifer Ravert, RN and Dori Schatell, MS
Reviewer– Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
No conflicts of interest were disclosed.
This class is part of our Self-guided Program to Advance Renal Knowledge (SPARK) series of online CE learning + professional mentoring education classes for nurses and dialysis technicians. Our goals are to help dialysis nurses and technicians stay up to date with their training and certifications—and to attract new interest in nephrology as a career.
Thank you to Fresenius Medical Care for providing unrestricted educational grant support.