Patient preparation | Machine Preparation & Dialysis Initiation | During and after dialysis |
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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 |