Hemodialysis Nursing - Blood & Uremia: A Monograph for Continuing Education 2000 by Joanne D Pittard MS, RN

This publication is written to be useful for all healthcare personnel who deal with patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). In particular, the information is important for: Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs), hemodialysis patient care technicians (PCTs), and others who provide direct care of patients. Physicians will find a compilation of useful material in this monograph that is unavailable in any other single source.

The mission and goal of this monograph is to improve the level of knowledge and delivery of care to dialysis patients. Nurses have the benefit of nursing school. Many Patient Care Technicians (PCTs) have not had this advantage. We have elected to include some very basic and fundamental information, in order to educate the many PCTs that have not had the advantage of nursing school.

One of the conundrums in teaching is to know what information to cover and what to omit. What facts are vital for the nurse or patient care technician to know? What information is nonessential but interesting? My intent is to focus on the key points and relevant correlations of anatomy and physiology of blood and the hemodialysis process. We hope that this monograph will help the reader to deliver a safer dialysis treatment and to improve the patient's quality of life.

Features of this monograph include:

• Introduction
• Objectives
• Graphics and diagrams to illustrate points
• Tables
• Post test review questions

A Monograph as a Teaching Instrument
A monograph is a writing, either in essay or book length, on a single or specific subject. This monograph comprises some, not all, of the elements needed to understand the interrelationships between the patient’s blood and the dialysis treatment.

This monograph contains graphics and material especially drawn and written for it. Much of the material is derived from Joanne’s "hands on" educational experience and her role as a nursing consultant and advisor to the ESRD industry. We believe that this publication is unique as Joanne was a dialysis nursing supervisor, is a "hands on" educator and she serves as a education expert to the dialysis industry.

To Earn thirty (30) Contact Hours of Continuing Education:

1. Read the Introduction and Objectives.
2. Read the entire monograph.
3. Take the attached test and fill in your answers.
4. Fill in your registration information on the answer form.
5. Mail or FAX the registration and answer form to:
   
   Hemodialysis, Inc.
   1560 East Chevy Chase Drive; Suite 435
   Glendale, CA 91206-4175
   Voice: 818-956-5357
   Fax: 818-507-5678
   

Hemodialysis, Inc is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), Provider Number CEP2359. Not all states have a BRN. Almost all states (not all) accept contact hours issued by providers approved by the California BRN. A non-Californian should verify acceptance of these contact hours with their state licensing authority or BRN prior to purchase. Many health-care employers use contact hours certification to evaluate their employee’s for annual advancement and educational growth.