All aspects of chronic kidney disease education for; patients, their family and carers and the public interacting both professionally and socially.
To champion renal patient, family and carer empowerment through education, self-efficacy, treatment choice, decision making and coping mechanisms.
Pre-treatment education & treatment decision making; continuing throughout the patient’s renal care pathway.
Support multi-professional renal teams in integrating structured education for individuals with chronic renal failure in their service, by providing a framework for curriculum development, educator training, quality assurance and audit which meets the Department of Health approved criteria.
Consistent delivery of educational components by training the educators.
Research based evaluation of education delivery, content and effect to provide/support evidence based practice guidelines.
The Renal Education Network was set up with the following objectives:
- To support delivery of high quality evidence based education for chronic renal failure patients and those caring for them.
- To support centres in accessing appropriate staff training.
- To support research applications and studies, into renal patient education and empowerment.
- To collaborate in the development of standards for renal education interventions.
- To develop and deliver a programme of Renal Education Network national and specialist interest meetings/courses.
- To enable centres to share best practice and learn from each other.
- To develop/support common evaluation criteria to facilitate quality assurance.
