Sharing the True Stories: key encounters in renal care (nd)

Description

This resource package on kidney health was developed as part of the research project Sharing the true stories: improving communication between health staff and their Aboriginal patients. The resource package consists of five key encounters between health staff and their Yolngu patients (and family members) that were videotaped during the project. Participants were interviewed to find out what they believed they had communicated during the encounter and what they had understood from the other participants, as well as being interviewed about their more general experiences with renal care and intercultural communication. The videos were then analysed with the involvement of most of the participants, and information from all these sources was integrated into case studies:

• Key Encounter 1: a medical review for a patient with chronic renal disease
• Key Encounter 2: an education session with a long term dialysis patient
• Key Encounter 3: a medical review with a medium-term patient on dialysis
• Key Encounter 4: an education session with a patient new to dialysis
• Key Encounter 5: an interaction 'on the floor' with a patient during dialysis.

Abstract adapted from Sharing the true stories project

Contact details

The Lowitja Institute
Ph (03) 8341 5555
Fax (03) 8341 5599
Email: admin@lowitja.org.au

Links

• View resource: Key encounter 1 : A medical consultation: review of a ‘pending patient’ (Word - 52.5 KB)
• View resource: Key encounter 2: An education session: feedback of blood test results (Word - 47.0 KB)
• View resource: Key encounter 3: A medical consultation: review of a patient on dialysis (Word - 25.5 KB)
• View resource: Key encounter 4: An education session: addressing dietary issues with a new patient (Word - 27.0 KB)
• View resource: Key encounter 5: A dialysis treatment session: ‘on the floor’ (Word - 26.0 KB)
• View information: Key encounter 1 : medical review with a 'pending patient'
• View information: Key encounter 2: an education session with a 'stable' patient
• View information: Key encounter 3: a medical review with a stable patient
• View information: Key encounter 4: an education session with a 'new' patient
• View information: Key encounter 5: 'on the floor'
• View information: Sharing the True Stories: key encounters in renal care

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