Guidelines for nursing patients for whom peritoneal dialysis is changed to hemodialysis

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25670948
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Bunkyo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: YOKOTA MOTOMI 文京学院大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (10188815)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 腹膜透析 / 血液透析への移行 / 看護介入 / ガイドライン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with nurses who had experience attending to patients whose treatment was being changed from peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis. The interviews revealed that patients who were successfully treated with dialysis needed to undergo a problem-solving simulation program at an annual session with a nurse. The simulation assumed situations that would make it difficult to continue peritoneal dialysis, and it was important for the patients to identify potential challenges and concerns that they would encounter if peritoneal dialysis was switched to hemodialysis. Since the possible situations may vary depending on the age of the patients involved, it may be useful to apply different situations for middle-aged to early-stage elderly patients and late-stage elderly patients.

Free Research Field

慢性看護学