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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Let’s Talk About PAIN
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Did you know that you don’t need a “pain management“ doctor exclusively to deal with your pain?
Published on 02/16/2023 by Liz Ramos
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Lifesaving Value of Hope
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Hope is a powerful motivating factor for survival, and perhaps one of the most underappreciated.
Published on 02/09/2023 by Jennifer Ravert, RN
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Touch Cannulation: The Genius of Stuart Mott
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I suspect that if the Touch Cannulation method were applied widely, the disparity between different cannulators may disappear
Published on 02/02/2023 by Peter Laird, MD
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Home Dialysis in the 2022 United States Renal Data System Annual Data report
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This blog will report some key things you might be interested in knowing about home dialysis in the U.S. as of 2020.
Published on 01/26/2023 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Tune Into Me please
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When I meet a new healthcare provider, I put them in one of two categories.
Published on 01/19/2023 by Lori Hartwell
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
“I Never Acquired the Art of Losing” - My Ongoing Struggle with Kidney Failure
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“hope springs eternal.” We can do this, I am certain we can.
Published on 01/12/2023 by Jay R. Schuster PhD
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
KDQOL-36: The What, How, and Why for Home Dialysis Patients
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The survey can be especially important to use with home dialysis patients who, with their families, have quite a responsibility with all that needs to be managed for home dialysis.
Published on 01/05/2023 by Dodie M. Stein, LCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
The Importance of Hope in Kidney Disease and Dialysis
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Hope is the most important first message we can give patients. Why? Because people diagnosed with a life-threatening illness are anxious and terrified—and we humans cannot learn when we are afraid.
Published on 12/22/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Training and Treating Home Dialysis Patients with Daytime Responsibilities
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To help to grow home dialysis programs, we need to make it as easy as possible for these patients to train for home dialysis and succeed at home.
Published on 12/15/2022 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Permission to Thrive: Conclusion
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My sincere hope is that this eBook will serve as a starting point in helping you learn to cope with ESRD and have a transformation in how you cope with your chronic illness going forward.
Published on 12/08/2022 by April McGraw, RN, CNN
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,