LIVING WITH CKD – Empowering Nurses to ‘Care More’
State Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization Goa Medical College organized a full-day Continuous Nursing Education Programme on “LIVING WITH CKD EMPOWERING NURSES TO CARE MORE” which focused on kidney Disease and the modalities of treatment.
A total of 100 participants for the CNE were handpicked from the departments dealing with CKD patients, Dialysis units and ICU and Transplant Units. The CNE was a combination of Educational sessions by the nurses and session based activities like quiz, roleplay, describing the pathways, etc. Dr. Preeti Varghese Joint Director of SOTTO Goa moderated all the activities and sessions giving her valuable insights and expertise on the topics.
The CNE Focused on the entire journey of a patient suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease and the options of the treatments available, renal replacement therapies like Hemodialysis and peritoneal Dialysis. Where a patient has to regularly undergo dialysis with medications to maintain the patient.
The long term treatments like Kidney Transplant were also discussed in detail and the types of kidney transplant like Living donor Kidney Transplant in which patients near relative / Next of Kin can donate one of his kidneys or a deceased donor kidney Transplant in which a brain dead Organ Donors Kidney can be transplanted.
Organ Transplant gives a better quality of life which allows patients to perform all regular activities like a healthy person they can work, eat, drink, have a social life free from all the machines.
The CKD patients can come and get themselves evaluated at the Joint Transplant Clinic at Super Specialty Block Goa Medical College on every Tuesday and Friday. It provides patients a hassle free consultation by fast forwarding the process of patient workup for Living Donor Kidney Transplant and enlisting for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant.
The operation theatre preparedness during the Organ retrieval and Transplant Process and important aspects were discussed. The crux of the entire organ donation and transplant programme lies in the well-being of the Organ recipient. To ensure the best outcome for the transplanted patients, a session on post-transplant care was conducted.
The program concluded with the valedictory function, at which Dr Preeti Varghese handed the guest speakers a certificate and token of appreciation.
