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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
Do YOU Want to Be a Home Dialysis Training Nurse?
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Have you read about how home dialysis offers people with kidney failure a greater sense of control and better physical health and emotional well-being?
Published on 04/18/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: nurse, training, home, requirements,
Seven Ways to Know When Dialysis is Optimal (Not Just "Adequate")
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If you have been reading our blog (and if not, you may want to go back and peek!), you'll see that we are not fans of Kt/V urea as a measure of dialysis "adequacy."
Published on 04/11/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
How Close Are We to Wearable Dialysis?
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The concept of a wearable artificial kidney (WAK) is very good and promising work.
Published on 04/04/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: future, dialysis, kidney, technology,
Rehabilitation Centers and PD: Building Community Partnerships
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Almost immediately after accepting a part-time position in a home dialysis program at the University of Colorado Hospital, I discovered a service gap in the community that was affecting the care of our patients.
Published on 03/27/2014 by Megan R Prescott, LCSW, NSW-C
Tags: training, support, strategy, peritoneal, dialysis,
Acknowledge Your Social Worker: March Is Social Work Month!
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How much do you know about social workers and what they do?
Published on 03/20/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Getting Rid of "Us vs. Them" in Dialysis
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It's March, which often means spring (though seemingly not this year!), and it's National Kidney Month, with World Kidney Day on March 13th.
Published on 03/07/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Starting PD & Medicare: A Flush is NOT Enough
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When a new patient starts treatment for ESRD, his or her dialysis clinic must complete the CMS 2728 in CROWNWeb.
Published on 03/03/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Observations from the Atlanta ADC
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Again, I have been stunned by the reticence here (in the US) to jiggle, cajole, encourage, empower that penny to drop...the penny with treatment time 't' embossed on one side and treatment frequency 'f' emblazoned on the other.
Published on 02/20/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Matching Dialysis Options to Lifestyle with MyDialysisChoice.org
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When consumers on the Facebook dialysis groups want to know, "Which treatment should I pick?" I've started to ask them the question that really matters: "What do you want your life to look like?"
Published on 02/13/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Home Dialysis: One Way to Help More People on Dialysis Work
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There are many reasons why someone with kidney failure might want to learn about and do home dialysis, like limited finances or insurance, poor transportation options, a need to care for loved ones at home, to have more control, and a desire to work.
Published on 02/06/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW