title: Coordinated hospital-home care for kidney patients on hemodialysis from the perspective of nursing personnel.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine, from the nursing perspective, the needs and challenges of coordinated hospital-home care for renal patients on hemodialysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative analysis was conducted with an ethnographic approach in a hemodialysis unit in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Semistructured interviews were conducted with nine nurses, selected by purposeful sampling. Structured content analysis was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses recounted the needs and challenges involved in caring for renal patients. They also identified barriers that limit coordinated patient care in the hospital and the home, mainly the work overload at the hemodialysis unit and the lack of a systematic strategy for education and lifelong guidance to patients, their families and caregivers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study shows the importance and necessity of establishing a strategy that goes beyond conventional guidance provided to caregivers of renal patients, integrating them into the multidisciplinary group of health professionals that provide care for these patients in the hospital to establish coordinated hospital-home care that increases therapeutic adherence, treatment substitution effectiveness and patient quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
authors.forename: Luz María
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Tejada-Tayabas
authors.affiliation: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico.
authors.forename: Karla Lizbeth
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Partida-Ponce
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
authors.forename: Luis Eduardo
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Hernández-Ibarra
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006436:Hemodialysis Units, Hospital; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009740:Nursing Staff; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000451:nursing*; D057566:Self Report