The Norm Bourke Box: A Patient-Led Initiative to Improve Care for Rural Patients Requiring Peritoneal Dialysis.

This article describes a patient-led initiative-the "Norm Bourke Box" (NBB) for patients requiring PD in rural New South Wales, Australia. The NBB provides necessary equipment including bathroom scales and a blood pressure machine, that are not supplied by the health service. For patients, this has enabled a "good start" to PD and has helped to alleviate the financial burden and stress of needing to source the equipment required for PD. This also gave patients and staff reassurance because patients could undertake training with the equipment that they would be using at home to support efficient and safe practice at home. Efforts are now underway to expand the distribution of the NBB to help improve access and care for rural patients on PD. PMID: 31296779 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Peritoneal Dialysis International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Perit Dial Int Source Type: research