Hemodialysis Training Course Held for Nurses by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

A hemodialysis training course was held by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences for nurses working in dialysis departments at health centers in iran’s Qutb 9, WEBDA reported.

In this training course, conducted by Head of Department of Special Diseases at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 150 nurses working in dialysis departments at treatment centers in Provinces of North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan learned the latest hemodialysis texts.

A specialist at Department of Special Diseases at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Mohammad Reza Hosseini Yazdi, said: "This one-day training course stressed repeated hand-washing in order to prevent and control infection.”

 “Dialysis process starts when in addition to increase of patients’ certain blood indexes, they, also, have uremic symptoms.”

“Anorexia, reduced sense of smell and taste, sleep disturbances, itching, dizziness, inability to walk, multiple hiccups, and numerous bruises are certain symptoms showing that the patient needs dialysis.”

This workshop stressed that nurses should use alcoholic solutions for each patient and that they ought to wash their hands when adopting these solutions so that possibility of transmission of patient-to-patient infections be minimized.