This roundtable video produced by Superior Health Quality Alliance is a virtual learning and networking series that supports nursing homes across Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was developed for nursing home leadership, nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and infection preventionists and any interested nursing home staff to help increase education around emerging regulatory and clinical guidance, sharing best practices and engage in discussion around nursing home priority issues such as vaccinations and quality improvement approaches.
The calls, held on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, will provide didactic education followed by open discussion and Q&A on any nursing-home related topic.
This video/roundtable, Managing Nursing Home Residents Receiving Dialysis will focus on the following topics:
- Understanding what dialysis is and the two types
- Recognizing the important nutritional components of dialysis
- Medication management
- The importance of fluid measurements
- Vaccinations for dialysis patients
- The need for staff training relating to PD catheters, access site and cares and BPs
- Understanding common side effects of dialysis
- Knowing when to notify dialysis centers of emergency situations
- The expectations of patients from dialysis centers