Course Overview
The Specialty Nursing Nephrology Department at BCIT is proud to offer a unique, interactive kidney workshop that provides essential and foundational information to health-care providers on the management and understanding of kidney disease. This workshop is designed for health care providers who do not work in a renal area but who do work with renal patients. Participants will enjoy learning about the kidney and the impact of impaired kidney function in fun and interactive ways. By the end of the day participants will have learned strategies to delay the progression of kidney disease, understand how it interacts with and complicates other conditions, be able to interpret basic renal lab values and support clients who are living with kidney disease.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
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:
- Explore healthy kidney function and the impact of impaired kidney function.
- Learn common and uncommon causes of kidney dysfunction.
- Investigate the connections and complications of co-morbidities such as diabetes or cardiac disease on renal disease.
- Follow the progression and associated signs and symptoms of kidney disease.
- Learn the basics of a renal specific assessment.
- Learn strategies to delay the development or progression of kidney disease.
- Explore renal replacement options.
- Discuss the creation and caring for dialysis accesses.
- Interpret basic renal lab values and understand renal pharmacology associated with maintaining kidney function.
- Review a renal diet as it relates to lab values and prolonging kidney function.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023
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