Educating patients with chronic kidney disease as early as possible and reviewing the basics of kidney treatment can improve outcomes, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.
“Our office started offering an education class in May 2021. [I] and one other nurse practitioner do it for our practice at two of our office locations,” Vanessa Ratcliff, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CNN, from the Nephrology Associates of Dayton in Ohio, said in the presentation. “Our goal is to provide education in an area that seems to lack it; to empower patients to be involved in