Home Modality QIA LAN

Bringing Patients Home | View Recording

Presenter: Shannon L. Cook, RN

Biography: Ms. Cook is the interim home therapy director of operations at Fresenius Kidney Care in Phoenix, Arizona.

Presentation Objectives:

• Share best practices that increase patients' awareness of and interest in home dialysis.
• Review education strategies that build and/or strengthen relationships between staff and patients to overcome barriers.
• Describe patient-centered activities that identify gaps between patients' goals and current quality of life.
• Discuss strategies for overcoming barriers that impact a patient's perceived suitability for home modalities.
• Share approaches that decrease home admission wait time through collaboration between regional home programs.