Renal Replacement Care: Dialysis Nursing and Patient Education

Course Purpose

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Renal Replacement Care: Dialysis Nursing and Patient Education.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Renal Replacement Care: Dialysis Nursing and Patient Education.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Compare hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, transplantation, and conservative kidney management using patient priorities and clinical feasibility.
2. Explain why dialysis initiation requires clinical assessment rather than reliance on kidney function estimates alone.
3. Recognize cognitive, gastrointestinal, skin, bleeding, and cardiopulmonary manifestations associated with uremia.
4. Distinguish dialysis clearance functions from endocrine and systemic problems requiring additional management.
5. Organize hemodialysis assessment around baseline findings, intratreatment changes, and unresolved post-treatment concerns.
6. Prioritize immediate emergency escalation for chest pain, suspected air embolism, access bleeding, and severe hyperkalemia symptoms.
7. Recognize fistula findings suggesting outflow difficulty, skin compromise, or distal ischemia without diagnosing a specific lesion.
8. Communicate access findings to the nephrologist and trained access team without selecting cannulation or repair techniques.
9. Differentiate catheter infection concerns, mechanical dysfunction, and external integrity problems requiring trained assessment.
10. Explain standardized catheter prevention practices while respecting product compatibility and procedural boundaries.
11. Explain the principles and support needs of manual and automated peritoneal dialysis without teaching exchanges.
12. Recognize suspected peritonitis and activate the facility emergency process without waiting for confirmation or a callback.
13. Integrate symptom assessment with electrolyte, fluid, anemia, and mineral–bone laboratory trends.
14. Respond to missed treatment through immediate symptom triage, barrier assessment, and nephrologist-directed planning.
15. Distinguish transplant referral, evaluation, listing, and allocation while maintaining necessary dialysis preparation.
16. Identify supported federal conditions for coverage and distinguish available operative text from regulatory headings alone.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Renal Replacement Care: Dialysis Nursing and Patient Education.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   Kidney Failure and Choosing a Care Pathway

4. 4

   Uremic Burden: What Dialysis Treats and What Remains

5. 5

   Hemodialysis Session Assessment and Complication Recognition

6. 6

   Fistula and Graft Assessment: Protecting Vascular Access

7. 7

   Central Venous Dialysis Catheters: Infection Prevention and Recognition

8. 8

   Peritoneal Dialysis Support and Immediate Peritonitis Recognition

9. 9

   Electrolytes, Fluid, Anemia, Bone–Mineral Disease, and Treatment Attendance

10. 10

    Transplant Coordination and the Federal Conditions for Coverage

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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