Home Dialysis: How Is This Advantageous?
Nurse Ruth discusses the advantages of in-home kidney dialysis.
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Ruth:
We train patients in doing their own dialysis at home, same as in-center except that it’s at home on a different machine.
The advantages to in-home dialysis are very unique. They allow the patient to pick their own time to run and work it into their lifestyle.
It allows them more autonomy as far as knowing what they want to do, how they want to spend their life, things they can do that they might not get to do if they didn’t feel as well they feel better at home.
Their restrictions are lot less at home. An example is dietary as well as physical activity choices are really important and that’s one of the things that we talk about in their training, what all they can do.
About Ruth:
Ruth Gray, R.N., H.H.D., is a registered nurse affiliated with Southwest Kidney Dialysis in Tempe, Arizona. Ruth works with DaVita Tempe Dialysis in the home hemodialysis department, training patients to perform at-home dialysis.
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