PD Workshop Stimulates InterestJudging from the response to a recent workshop, there is strong and growing interest around the province in offering peritoneal dialysis (PD) as an option in residential care settings. The PD in Residential Care workshop, held May 9 in Delta, attracted 40 participants from renal programs in every health authority. The workshop included presentations from three care facilities that currently offer PD: Hawthorne (Port Coquitlam), Three Links (Vancouver) and Delta View in Delta, which hosted the event. With two of its residential care facilities already offering PD, Fraser Health is now considering PD for a third facility in the Chilliwack area. Workshop participants from the north were able to apply the workshop learnings immediately to a brand new PD program in a Quesnel-based facility, and the interior also expressed a strong interest in bringing PD to some of their residential care facilities. The response to the workshop was very positive, with all participants ranking it good or excellent for scope of information presented, quality of the presentations and speakers, event format, and for the value of the event for improving professional effectiveness. In an email to the workshop organizers, one participant wrote: "Congratulations on a very well-organized and informative workshop… The case studies… were particularly touching and effective and brought us right back to why this is such an important piece of work." For more information, contact Donna Murphy-Burke at DMurphy-Burke@bcpra.ca or 604-875-7348. |
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