Using dialysis facility reports and ESRD Quality Incentive Program data, this session explores factors that influence hospital readmissions for ESRD patients as well as quality measures to reduce readmissions, including care coordination interventions.
Contact hours available until 4/18/2020.
Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.
Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Planning Committee Disclosures:
• Marijo Johnson – Employee, Fresenius Medical Care
There are no other disclosures to declare.
Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement:
American Nephrology Nurses Association – Provider is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning Outcome:
Nephrology nurses describe the challenges and opportunities that present themselves when patients with chronic kidney disease are readmitted to the hospital.
What would you do if you were diagnosed with kidney disease? One patient shares his journey from diagnosis with kidney disease to treatment with home hemodialysis to kidney transplant.
Contact hours available until 4/18/2020.
Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.
Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Planning Committee Disclosures:
• Marijo Johnson – Employee, Fresenius Medical Care
There are no other disclosures to declare.
Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement:
American Nephrology Nurses Association – Provider is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning Outcome:
Nephrology nurses state an increased ability to understand the emotions patients experience after being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.
This session focuses on teaching dialysis concepts to patients. Cannulation of a vascular access serves as an example to demonstrate instructional tools such as the ASSURE model and Gagne’s nine events of instruction.
Contact hours available until 4/18/2020.
Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.
Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Planning Committee Disclosures:
• Marijo Johnson – Employee, Fresenius Medical Care
There are no other disclosures to declare.
Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement:
American Nephrology Nurses Association – Provider is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning Outcome:
Nephrology nurses who teach other nurses how to cannulate vascular accesses will state an ability to use various methods to plan that educational experience.
Ideal for the advanced practice nurse, this session features case studies focusing on the pathophysiologic changes that occur in various renal diseases as well as the implications for patient assessment and plan of care.
Contact hours available until 4/18/2020.
Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.
Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Planning Committee Disclosures:
• Marijo Johnson – Employee, Fresenius Medical Care
There are no other disclosures to declare.
Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement:
American Nephrology Nurses Association – Provider is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learning Outcome:
Nephrology nurses relate the assessments and care plans devised for patients to the pathophysiological changes occurring because of patients’ disease processes.