As a Patient Navigator, you are uniquely positioned within a medical team to build relationships with at-risk clients to encourage and guide them through the process and stages of kidney disease. The upcoming modules aim to provide an overview of kidney disease, enhance communication skills, strengthen the skills to address barriers, and support clients at all stages.
Who can benefit from this course:
- Community health workers, promotoras, and patient navigators delivering outreach and education on a variety of health and wellness topics
- Patient navigators and patient educators based on healthcare settings
- Nurse navigators based in healthcare systems or hospitals
- Anyone looking for new tools, best practices, and engagement approaches for working with clients who are dealing with kidney disease
In this course, you will learn to:
- Explain the main function of the kidneys
- Describe the symptoms associated with kidney disease
- Identify the common causes of kidney damage
- Understand the various tests used to diagnose kidney disease
- Understand and be able to describe the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure
- Understand and be able to describe the strategies to reduce the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure
- Understand why a patient needs to receive clinical care once a patient has kidney disease
- Understand why learning this is important for racial and ethnic minorities
- Describe symptoms patient may experience once they have advanced kidney disease
- Understand when (kidney damage eGFR) their doctor will need to discuss kidney replacement therapy
- Describe all kidney replacement therapy options (home peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, in-center hemodialysis, transplant, conservative management)
- Describe the dietary changes a patient needs to make once they have advanced kidney disease
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