KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
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"Thanks for the Giving"
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Does this make you think a little differently about “Thanks for the Giving”? I hope so. May we all be reminded of those who give in our behalf each day, week, month, year. May this remind us that in our own heroic efforts, we are never alone.
Published on 11/29/2019 by Amy Staples
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Is a Patient-Centered Dialysis Behavior Contract Possible?
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Social workers want to know how to motivate patients to behave differently. Some dialysis clinics ask patients who exhibit challenging behaviors to sign a contract to avoid consequences.
Published on 11/09/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Home Hemodialysis Training Re-Imagined
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Because I have a front row seat inside so many home dialysis clinics on a weekly basis, and have been confronted with so many obstacles to HHD success, I am determined to devote my life work to finding solutions to each and every one.
Published on 11/02/2017 by Susan Ostrzycki/RN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
An Exemplar Dialysis Unit
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what follows is how I imagined things could be, as I thought through the dialysis service design we currently and repeatedly churn out—and the recurrent shortcomings of that design
Published on 10/05/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
On My Own…and Loving It
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I’m into week 2 of my first vacation since starting dialysis, and I am happy to report that I am totally relaxed, at peace, and enjoying life
Published on 08/03/2017 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, travel,