“Renal Friendship Club” provides intimate services to patients

  A kidney patient from Australia said, “I am a kidney failure patient who has been on hemodialysis in Australia for more than 3 years, but recently I came here for dialysis because of my work, and I have deeply experienced your exquisite technology, attentive care and considerate service, treating patients as friends. An old man grabbed the microphone and said, “My blood vessels are different from those of ordinary people, other people’s blood vessels are straight, but mine are curved like earthworms. For my special blood vessels, the nurses in the dialysis room have studied and discussed a series of puncture methods! This is what makes my dialysis run smoothly every time!” Everyone seemed to have found a resonance, and they kept expressing their feelings. Even a kidney patient who usually does not like to talk much said today, “I have been on dialysis for more than ten years, and dialysis is like my three meals a day, I can’t separate from it. Now you still hold such a party for our kidney friends, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!”  This is the scene of the second “Renal Friendship Party” held by the Department of Geriatric Nephrology on April 8, in which all renal friends discussed enthusiastically. Zhao Weihong, the director of the Geriatric Nephrology Department, and Yu Rongfang, the head nurse of the department, led the medical staff to make a lot of preparations for this event. During the meeting, the specialist nurses and doctors of the Geriatric Hemodialysis Unit introduced a number of contents such as “Dry Weight”, “Care of Dialysis Catheter”, “Daily Care of Internal Fistula”, “Overview of Hemoperfusion” and “Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension in Kidney Disease”, and explained in depth the content of self-assessment before dialysis, overall grasp during dialysis, self-evaluation after dialysis, usual functional exercise and self-care for dialysis patients. The complete self-care process gave the kidney patients a deeper understanding of their dialysis status, which was highly affirmed by the kidney patients.