 Information-sharing benefits residential care PD programs
Three facilities in BC – Delta View Campus of Care in Delta, Hawthorne Care Centre in Port Coquitlam, and Three Links Care Centre in Vancouver – are running successful peritoneal dialysis (PD) programs for their residents. These programs were highlighted in a May 2008 workshop sponsored by the Renal Agency with a view to further advancing PD in residential care settings across the province.
Since the workshop, PD programs in the Interior and Northern Health have identified facilities interested in partnering in the provision of PD services for residential care patients. To aid them, as well as to promote a consistent approach to residential PD care, the St Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital PD programs have made available the policy and procedure manual they developed for the Three Links program.
"The nurse and patient educators from PHC and VCH collaborated with Three Links to create this valuable resource ," says PHC renal program operations leader Michele Trask. "We are happy to share it – there is no point in reinventing the wheel."
Donna Murphy-Burke, BCPRA's coordinator of renal networks, agrees: "Using the information in the manual and adapting it as appropriate for local use will save time and energy – it’s an excellent example of the synergy that the provincial renal network is so well known for."
For more information, contact Michele Trask mtrask@providencehealth.bc.ca or Donna Murphy-Burke dmurphy-burke@bcpra.ca
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