Learning Session
Vascular Access: Networking for Solutions
Presentations
This training featured three educational sessions: Community Partnering, Patient Culture and Catheter Reduction. Click on the links below to access presentation slides for each session. (Please click on the following link to access meeting handouts - Vascular Access: Networking for Solutions Handouts).
Community Partnering
Program Ojectives:
By attending this learning session, attendees will be able to do the following:
- Describe techniques used to improve communication and working relationships with ESRD patient care stake holders
- Identify steps in the process of partnering with stake holders outside of the dialysis facility
Speakers:
Barbara Hasbargen, MSN, RN, CNS, CNN Nephrology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Duneland Dialysis, Coffee Creek, Indiana [View slides, PDF, 389KB]
Ausuncion Javier, RN Nursing Director Section of Nephrology
University of Illinois Dialysis, Chicago, IL [View slides, PDF, 47KB]
Patient Culture
Program Ojectives:
By attending this learning session, attendees will be able to do the following:
- Describe techniques/processes used to improve patient knowledge & decision making.
- Implement patient culture improvement project in your facility
Speakers:
Craig Fisher, PH.D., L.C.S.W., C.A.D.C., Nephrology Social Worker, Fox Valley Dialysis, Aurora, IL.
Kathi Niccum, EdD, Director of Patient Services, The Renal Network, Inc.
[View joint-presentation slides, PDF, 2.8M]
Catheter Reduction
Program Ojectives
By attending this learning session, attendees will be able to do the following:
- Discuss tools/techniques proven to improve AVF rates & decrease catheter rates
- Implement a change process in your facility to target catheter reduction in eligible patients.
Speakers:
Annie Wilson, RN, Nurse Manager & VAC, DSI Scottsdale, Chicago, IL (Chicago Only) [View slides, PDF, 369KB]
Angelo Nicholas Makris, M.D., American Access Centers, Chicago, IL (Chicago Only) [View slides, PDF, 2.1M]
Janice Handley, RN, Administrator, Fresenius Medical Care, Louisville, KY
[View slides, PDF, 258KB]
Diane Peck, RN, CNN, Lifeline Vascular Access [View slides, PDF, 1.2M]