Table 1

Stages of shared haemodialysis care individual competency

Stage of SHC competencyPerson can independently:
1
  • Measure their weight.

  • Wash their hands.

  • Measure their blood pressure.

2
  • Prepare their own dressing pack.

3
  • Line the haemodialysis machine.*

  • Prime the haemodialysis machine.

4
  • Programme the haemodialysis machine.

5
  • Prepare their haemodialysis venous access device‡ (where applicable).

  • Needle their arteriovenous access§ (where applicable).

  • Connect to the haemodialysis machine.

  • Disconnect from the haemodialysis machine.

  • *Attach the necessary tubing components to the dialysis machine in an aseptic manner.

  • †The tubing and dialyser are washed with sterile saline solution and then the dialyser made ready with dialysate fluid.

  • ‡A tunnelled dialysis catheter that is embedded in a person and can be connected in an aseptic fashion to a dialysis machine.

  • §Either an arteriovenous fistula or an arteriovenous graft. Both require needles to be placed into them for blood to be extracted and returned as part of the dialysis treatment.

  • SHC, shared haemodialysis care.