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.Â
- Describe three approaches to clinic-level reasons for early home HD dropout.
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.
