Preventing Early Home HD Dropout

$25.00

This course is part of the SPARK Preventing Home Dialysis Dropout seven-part series.

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Home HD training is a costly nursing time investment for clinics.  Both patient- and clinic-level factors play key roles in the likelihood of early home HD dropout.  Learn what these are and how to prevent them in this course.

Objectives

  • Outline four ways to mitigate patient-level reasons for early home HD dropout.
  • Provide three reasons for customizing home HD treatments to individual patients. 
  • Describe three approaches to clinic-level reasons for early home HD dropout.

Audience

Nurses and Dialysis Technicians. (This course can also serve as a home dialysis orientation for nephrologists and administrators.)

Contact Hour Approval

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

Conflicts of Interest

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.

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