Reducing the burden of care is essential to help patients dialyze to live—not live to dialyze. In this course, you will learn how to help patients navigate training and the first few stressful months at home, and make their treatment schedules fit their lives.
Objectives
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Identify three strategies to fit treatment to lifestyle to reduce patient or care partner burden of care
- Describe three ways to support new patients during the first 4 months at home
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Explain how to make the most of home patients’ clinic visits
Accreditation for this course expires October 31, 2026.
Learners must complete the entire activity, receive a score of at least 80% on the post-test, and complete the course evaluation to be awarded contact hours. Learners can print or save their completion certificates and should keep them for a minimimum of 4 years. 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, RN
- Authors – Jennifer Ravert, RN and Dori Schatell, MS
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. This activity was funded, in part, by an unrestricted educational grant from Fresenius Medical Care.
