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Table 2 Shared Haemodialysis Care treatment tasks (note some tasks are mutually exclusive)

From: Rationale and design for SHAREHD: a quality improvement collaborative to scale up Shared Haemodialysis Care for patients on centre based haemodialysis

Patient preparation

Machine Preparation & Dialysis Initiation

During and after dialysis

Measuring your weight

Lining your dialysis machine

Responding to your machine alarms

Measuring your blood pressure and pulse

Priming your dialysis machine

Disconnecting the lines and completing your dialysis

Measuring your temperature

Preparing your dressing pack

Applying pressure to your needle sites OR Locking your own tunnelled line

Washing your hands prior

Programming your dialysis machine

Giving your own anaemia injections (such as epoetin)

 

Needling your fistula/graft OR Preparing your tunnelled line

 

Connecting the lines to your fistula/graft/tunnelled line and commencing dialysis