Description
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Goal: To provide an overview of the importance of a patient-centered model of care and the role of the nephrology nurse in this model.
Objectives:
- Explain the benefits of involving patients in their own healthcare decisions.
- Discuss how nurses can help empower patients into becoming involved in their own self-care.
- Describe how successful nurse-patient partnerships can be formed.
- Identify barriers that may prevent the establishment of a successful nurse-patient partnership.
Statement of Disclosure: The authors reported no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this continuing nursing education activity.
Author(s)
- Sheila
Doss,
BSN, RN, CNN, CCRA
- Peggy
DePascal,
RN, CDN
- Kimberly
Hadley,
BSN, RN, CNN, JD
