Helping Professional I am currently a Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician working in a hospital setting; going on 14 years. Dialysis technicians work with people whose kidneys no longer work properly or at all. I operate machines that remove wastes‚ salt‚ and extra water from patients’ blood while keeping safe levels of certain chemicals. Dialysis patients generally are on the machine for about four hours‚ three times a week. My job as a technician is to prepare patients for dialysis
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CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TRAINING PROGRAM Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) training programs have become fundamental patient education programs in renal centers providing peritoneal dialysis (PD) services. Health care and organizational issues Multidisciplinary team approach Evidence-based practice Pre-training patient assessment Patient training Program evaluation Identify key learning objectives for patient training. The essential elements
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candidates do not make enough clear points to access all the marks in multi-mark questions’ Setting the context: Q1 Kidney (6 mark question) In this question you will be assessed on using good English‚ organising information clearly and using specialist terms where appropriate. A person with kidney disease could be treated either by using a dialysis machine or by a kidney transplant
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harmful wastes‚ toxins‚ excess salt‚ and water from their body because unfortunately their body cannot do so for them. These people wait on a list until they can one day receive a kidney transplant because kidney failure has resulted in their body not being able to clean their blood properly. More than 300‚000 Americans have kidney failure and use dialysis daily and the statistics are only continuing to grow. I am going to argue that the best to solve this problem is to legalize the regulated sale of organs
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getting rid of waste (diffusion) and unwanted water from the blood. This process is naturally done by our kidneys. Some people‚ however‚ may have failed or damaged kidneys which cannot carry out the function properly‚ they may need dialysis. The human body relies on homeostasis to function properly‚ so the body constantly makes adjustments to keep balanced within its physiological limits. The kidneys in the urinary system are a major workhorse in keeping the body in balance. They regulate the ionic composition
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The report “Global and China Hemodialysis Industry Report‚ 2013-2016″ by Research in China is now available at chinamarketresearchreports.com. Hemodialysis‚ also known as artificial kidney‚ is a type of blood purification technology‚ primarily applicable to the treatment of patients with rental failure. In 2013‚ the global number of patients receiving dialysis continued to grow to 2.519 million. The new patients mainly come from Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan)‚ whereas for Europe‚ America
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January 22‚ 2014 Eng 102 Black Market Organ Donors Today‚ due to poor health‚ there are several patients who need new organs from people‚ specifically kidneys. People who have the same blood type as the patient: type A‚ B‚ AB‚ or O‚ can donate an organ under their free will. Unfortunately not many people want to do this out of the kindness of their hearts‚ so there is a black market out there for organ donors and patients. On the whole‚ the black market for organ donating should be left alone
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resulted in the invention of a shunt by Dr. Belding Scribner‚ which is a tube permanently attached to one vein and one artery and allowed for the continuous blood flow. Now with the two inventions put together‚ the doctors had created an artificial kidney that could save many lives. However‚ this amazing breakthrough led to issue: the scarcity of these machines. Because there was very few of them available to patients‚ doctors had to come up with a way to decide which patients got dialysis and which
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says that there are thousands of people that are in need of kidneys and thousands that are willing to sell their kidneys. So what’s stopping these people from getting the kidneys? We are. Our government has prohibited the sale of human organs. The government should not ban this. In fact‚ they should actually regulate it. People’s lives are on the line because they need these organs immediately. A family member who offers to donate a kidney to another family member could not do so because the government
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due to man’s kidney transplant”‚ which was published in Shanghai daily on March 17‚ 2011(China.org.cn) is an example of an ethical dilemma situation. The incident narrated was at a hospital in China. A 35 year old man is diagnosed with kidney failure due to uremia. In his family‚ the patient is the main earning member in the family. It consists of an old father and a mother who has cancer and three other brothers. Thus he had to give up his job for the treatment of his kidney problem. At that
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