For Kidney Professionals Resource Library

Evidence Based Education for your Patients

• Teach a CKD class
  

  Use our FREE, MIPPA-eligible slide decks one-on-one or with groups. Download our How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease toolkit—with slides, speaker’s notes, learning objectives, handouts, and a how-to guide. Adapt them so they work for YOU. Or your patients can watch video classes presented by award-winning social worker, Mary Beth Callahan.

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• Help patients slow CKD
  

  Reinforce your teaching. Order our easy-to-read, engaging booklet to share accurate, up-to-date information. Help people with stage 3 CKD take active steps to slow their disease. Available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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  Order our fully-referenced booklet to help stage 4/5 CKD patients and families learn to delay kidney failure and understand all of the treatment options: transplant, dialysis, and conservative management. Available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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  What our patients eat matters. Lack of access to nutritious food—food insecurity—is a social determinant of health that is associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and the development and progression of CKD, notes Dr. Dugan Maddux, Vice President of Kidney Disease Initiatives at Fresenius Medical Care in this informative article. The Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) is developing the evidence base to demonstrate that medically tailored meals can improve health, reduce costs, and boost patient quality of life.

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• Give hope and share treatment options
  

  Order our fully-referenced booklet to help stage 4/5 CKD patients and families learn to delay kidney failure and understand all of the treatment options: transplant, dialysis, and conservative management.

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• Offer informed consent for dialysis
  

  Help, I Need Dialysis! is a reassuring, referenced, comprehensive, illustrated resource that covers ALL types of dialysis and what to expect. Winner of a National Health Information Award, this 193-page book is a must-have.

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• Educate Patients on how treatment options affect lifestyle
  

  My Kidney Life: A New Direction

  In this book, we teach you your job with a chronic disease. We help you sort out what matters to you. And, we tell you about each of the treatments, so you can make a choice that fits the way you want to live. Use the free tool, My Kidney Life Plan, below to help you match a treatment to your life.

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  My Kidney Life Plan

  Help your patients match their personal values with the dialysis options that will give them the fullest lives with our FREE decision aid.

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• Promote venous access
  

  Three illustrated vascular access booklets—one each for fistulas, grafts, and catheters. In English, Spanish, Korean, Bengali, Chinese, and French (Haitian) Creole.

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• Encourage home treatments
  

  Original, easy-to-read articles about lifestyle topics related to PD and home HD, from keeping a job to what to expect from a PD catheter. Check out the topics!

  

  Home Dialysis: Your Life, Your Choice 30-minute DVD takes you into the lives of six people on PD or daily or nocturnal home HD, plus three nephrologists. Cost: $10

  

  Dialyze to Live features six stories of people who have made home dialysis part of an active and rewarding lifestyle. Free PDF.

• Reduce care-partner burden
  

  Partner Agreement on Tasks for Home Dialysis (PATH-D) - for PD or HHD. Tools to help manage tasks between the person on dialysis and a care partner.

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• Explain the Medicare start date
  

  Medicare Start Date Calculator – free tool to learn when Medicare will start for your patients if they do home dialysis verses in-center.

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• Start a conversation with in-center patients
  

  3-Minute Mini-movies in English and Spanish:

  • Fistulas – Shows why it’s best to switch from a hemodialysis catheter to a fistula.
  • Dialysis Options – Covers lifestyle impacts of PD, in-center nocturnal, and home HD.
  • Fluids – Shares how excess fluid can make patients feel bad and what they can do about it.
  • Getting Enough Dialysis – Explains the patient’s role in dialysis adequacy.

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