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Nephrology Nurses’ Perspectives
On Difficult Ethical Issues
And Practice Guideline for
Shared Decision Making
(Vol
34/No. 6. On-line test expires: 12/20/2009)
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receive continuing education credit, you must read the
information in this article and take an on-line post
test and fill out an on-line program evaluation form.
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Christy Price Rabetoy, NP
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Christy Price Rabetoy, NP, is Nephrology Nurse
Practitioner, Salt Lake City, UT. She has served as
a member of the Nephrology Nursing Journal
Editorial Board for many years and is a Past
President of ANNA. She is also a member of
ANNA’s Intermountain Chapter.
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Bradley C. Bair, MS, MStat
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Bradley C. Bair, MS, MStat, is Senior Data
Analyst/Biostatitician, Division of Nephrology and
Hypertension, University of Utah School of
Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Nephrologists and nephrology nurses have struggled with the technological, financial, and ethical
concerns surrounding the life sustaining treatment of hemodialysis for as long as this treatment
as been available. One of the overriding issues for the nephrology community has been
appropriate utilization of this technology and the appropriate restraint for prescribing dialysis.
Since the inception of dialysis, there has been discussion of guidelines for deciding who should
receive and who should not receive this therapy. In 2000, a clinical guideline was developed to
assist in directing the care of patients. The knowledge and acceptance of this guideline by
nephrologists has been researched in the past. However, there is no data of knowledge and
acceptance of the guideline by nephrology clinical nurses or nephrology nurse practitioners. A
survey was conducted to begin to ascertain this information in order to better understand the
perspectives of nephrology nurses.
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This
offering for 1.5 contact
hours is being provided by
the
American
Nephrology Nurses’ Association
(ANNA), which
is accredited as a provider
and approver of continuing
education in nursing by
the American Nurses’
Credentialing Center-Commission
on Accreditation (ANCCCOA).
This educational activity
is approved by most states
and specialty organizations
that recognize the ANCC-COA
accreditation process. ANNA
is an approved provider of
continuing education in nursing
by the California Board of
Registered Nursing, BRN Provider
No. 00910; and the Kansas
State Board of Nursing, Provider
No. LT0148-0738. This offering
is accepted for RN and LPN
relicensure in Kansas
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Goal:
To increase awareness of the nephrology nurses’ need to be cognizant of the
issues surrounding end-of-life decisions to be made for those requiring
hemodialysis.
Objectives:
1. Outline the history of nephrology clinical guidelines and position statements
relating to end-of-life care in regards to the use of hemodialysis.
2. Relate the need for a shared decision making effort between health care
workers, patients, and families to be used when discussing end-of-life care.
3. Recommend strategies to increase the awareness of nephrology nurses to
their role in supporting nephrology patients and families struggling with
end-of-life care decisions involving hemodialysis use.
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AUTHOR DISCLOSURE
STATEMENT |
Christy Price Rabetoy
has no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Bradley C. Bair
has no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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