{"title":"Implementing a Student Nurse Rotation in a Free-Standing Dialysis Unit.","authors":"Kristin Larson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lack of nephrology nurses in the present workforce and projected for the future workforce has been documented in the literature. Contributing to this crisis is the near absence of clinical rotations for nursing students in a dialysis unit. In an effort to address the staffing need, the author created, marketed, and negotiated a dialysis curriculum for BSN students at a school of nursing where the author became the faculty for the rotation. Components of the experience consisted of lecture, patient interview, and written report of the clinical findings. In the two years since the creation of the dialysis rotation, the reception from students and dialysis unit staff has been overwhelmingly positive, and has exposed nursing students to nephrology and the benefits of a student membership in the American Nephrology Nurses Association.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"158-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144058622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Requirements for Staff and Patient Education in Dialysis Facilities.","authors":"Jennifer Payton, Jennifer Vavrinchik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ensures that patients and clinicians are well-informed about various aspects of care, policies, and procedures. CMS has specific guidelines, resources, and requirements to improve patient outcomes and health care delivery. Specifically, the End Stage Renal Disease Conditions for Coverage Interpretive Guidance for dialysis facilities requires training staff and patients on specific topics. Patient education requirements include the right to tailored education, emergency preparedness training, and requirements for the education of patients dialyzing at home. CMS also requires training for staff working in dialysis facilities. Topics for training of staff include infection control, emergency preparedness, and water and dialysate procedures.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"148-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144033884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical Competency Assessment: The Educator's Role.","authors":"Lisa W Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Competency involves not just knowledge (K) and skills (S), but attitudes (A) and specific behaviors needed to perform a role. In nursing, competency can be complex and challenging to measure. There is an aspect of clinical judgment required to put KSA into action. Assessing an environment and creating a plan of action must be taught and reinforced as best evidence-based practice. Competency assessments should demonstrate mastery of items that impact outcomes. This article addresses the topic of competency from the lens of a clinical educator with a need for information on considerations in staff learning and topical assessment development.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"151-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144009418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Guide for Novice Clinical Educators.","authors":"Debbie Cline","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurse educators may be asked to develop and deliver in-service education while still in the novice stage of learning how to provide clinical education. This article focuses on foundational information related to developing successful clinical education. The development of clinical education should be approached in a methodical manner to ensure successful delivery and results, and should include clear and concise objectives, content, and an evaluation. Steps and resources for writing objectives, creating and delivering content, and evaluating the effectiveness of in-service education are provided in this high-level overview that can be used as a guide for novice nurse educators.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"163-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143996440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Adult Learners.","authors":"Mary Harper","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses are taught clinical skills, but often are not taught how to teach, despite being responsible for teaching patients and families, as well as other members of the health care team. This article delineates considerations for teaching adults, both other health care staff and patients. Topics include characteristics of adult learners, experiential learning, the biology of learning, adult learning principles, and using nursing standards and patient education guidelines. Exemplars of preceptee and patient education are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"115-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective Strategies for Training Patients to Perform Home Dialysis.","authors":"Gayle Hall, Stacey Lane","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient education is critical to the success of the patient on home dialysis. Ideally, pre-admission interventions should include a home environment assessment, assessment of patient and care partner commitment to therapy and level of engagement, assessment of patient support and resources, and assessment of patient and care partner readiness to learn. The training process used by the registered nurse (RN) working in home dialysis training, as well as initial and ongoing assessment of patient and care partner knowledge and skills, ensures the patient is positioned for the best outcomes. This article explores individual patient and care partner considerations to be integrated as part of developing the plan of care for successful home dialysis training.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"142-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient Education 101.","authors":"Beth Ulrich, Linda Wright","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient education is a professional responsibility of all registered nurses (RNs); however, many RNs have never been taught how to teach, and specifically, how to teach patients. Teaching is a specialty all its own, and requires knowledge of principles and practices of teaching. This article provides basic information for RNs who are providing patient education, including learning theories and styles, learning environments, teaching strategies (communication, teach-back, microlearning, feedback, debriefing and reflective practice, educational materials), patient assessment (motivational interviewing, health literacy), planning (goals and objectives), competency, implementation, and evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"123-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144006164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transplant 101: Operationalizing Post-Transplant Patient Education.","authors":"Jean Colaneri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are several obstacles to achieving effective post-transplant education for kidney transplant recipients. Identifying those obstacles and making an effective plan to circumvent them are the first steps in the education process. Since the post-transplant length of stay is often short, it is advisable that each program has an educational care map describing when and how to deliver post-transplant teaching. It is essential to provide the patient with written information, as well as worksheets for recording self-monitoring and medication schedules. Equally important to the patient education process is the nurse's establishment of a trusting relationship with the patient to assess readiness to learn, as well in defining goals and objectives, which should be mutually set. A variety of engaging teaching and learning strategies optimizes post-transplant patient education.</p>","PeriodicalId":54363,"journal":{"name":"Nephrology Nursing Journal","volume":"52 2","pages":"154-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144028773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}