The relationship of clinical laboratory parameters and patient attributes to the quality of life of patients on hemodialysis.

Aim: With advances in medicine, the subjective assessment of patients on hemodialysis regarding their quality of life (QOL) is gaining importance. Clinicians cannot rely solely on objective markers, such as the rates of complications and mortality, when evaluating responses to dialysis. In clinical settings, laboratory values are used as measures of patients' health.

Structural visualization of expert nursing: Dialysis patient education program "vascular access management".

Structural visualization was implemented on vascular access management education for dialysis patients requiring expert nursing. As listening to and recording the sound of the Vascular access is important, an education program involving the electronic recording of sounds was proposed. Recording the Vascular access sounds and utilizing them as part of the education program encouraged a common understanding of the sounds between nurses and patients and helped to achieve a better quality of patient education.

Structural visualization of expert nursing: Dialysis patient education program "PD catheter management".

Structural visualization was implemented on catheter management education for peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients requiring expert nursing. An education program utilizing electronic images was proposed as a method of monitoring the exit site, which is of high importance in PD catheter self-management. Recording images of the exit site and utilizing them as part of the education program encouraged a common understanding of the exit site between nurses and patients, and helped to achieve a better quality of patient education.