PD and home HD are very different than in-center HD. Instead of doing tasks for patients, you’ll teach them how to do their own care—using an empowerment approach. In this course, you’ll learn how to make the shift and equip your patients to do PD and home HD safely.
Objectives
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Describe how to examine and overcome your biases
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Discuss tactics to enhance learning readiness prior to home training
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Provide three examples of ways to overcome challenges to home dialysis success
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List four ways to treat patients like the adult learners they are
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Explain the importance of providing autonomy support
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.
