Patients' care excellence and peritoneal dialysis

Abstract

In parallel to the diversification of the strategies of peritoneal dialysis, a large impulse was given by the search for specific competences in the field of patients' care. A national research named “EDTNA ERCA” (in 2005) allowed us to learn about the different organizational realities and the continuity of welfare-oriented care, which is today a prerequisite for the building of the network between hospital and territory. Therapeutic education and adult-specific technical skills characterized the formation that EDTNA/ERCA has proposed, but these do not support the thesis of the marginality of the technique and the skills that its practice requires. This last aspect can be one of the critical issues for its development.