Nephrology Nursing Clinical 2: Nursing Care of the Person on Dialysis NSNN 7500

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Discuss effective strategies that facilitate working collaboratively with clients on hemodialysis to promote health.
• Utilize a phenomenological approach in order to interpret a client and their family’s experience of hemodialysis.
• Program a hemodialysis machine according to the client’s prescription.
• Apply the clinical decision-making process to assess a client’s health status in a clinical setting pre-, intra- and post-dialysis.
• Assess a client’s vascular accesses for patency.
• Use effective communication techniques that promote efficient multidisciplinary team partnerships and collaboration.
• Utilize principles of aseptic technique and venipuncture in initiating, managing, and discontinuing hemodialysis.
• Identify and describe the pharmacology of agents commonly used specifically in hemodialysis.
• Perform the basic hemodialysis procedure using individualized dialysis prescriptions.
• Identify and interpret common laboratory, radiological and diagnostic investigations and monitoring results correlated to hemodialysis.
• Identify and manage common complications of hemodialysis.
• Describe the rationale and applicable conditions for sodium profiling.
• Apply clinical decision-making skills to respond to and manage changes in a client’s health pre-, intra- and post-dialysis.
• Assess the clinical data and consult with the nephrology team about the adequacy of dialysis.
• Describe possible strategies to improve the efficacy of hemodialysis.
• Perform a comprehensive assessment of a hemodialysis client.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023