Dialysis Nurse in Training

For patients who require dialysis, the impact on their daily lives is often significant. Sometimes temporary, but usually for a longer period. As a dialysis nurse in training, you contribute to as good a quality of life as possible for these patients.

Setting up, connecting, and monitoring dialysis equipment and guiding patients during the treatment.

Insight into dietary and fluid restrictions in kidney patients.

Dealing with critical and acute situations and how to act in these. (You are always with colleagues).

Guiding patients and their loved ones through the emotional and psychosocial consequences of dialysis.

Collaborating in a multidisciplinary team of doctors, social workers, and dietitians.

During the training, you will work at least 32 hours per week on the ward and will receive a dedicated internal mentor who supports you in your development. The training is fully funded by us.

You will begin with a 3-month preparatory period. During this time, you will learn to perform a simple dialysis treatment. When you successfully complete this period, you will start the training. The one-year training to become a dialysis nurse within the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). During the training, you will learn everything about dialysis treatments and everything involved. After 9 months, you will complete the theoretical part and will have approximately 3 months left to complete the practical part of the training. Here, the emphasis lies on acute dialysis and special treatments such as plasma filtration. On our ward, you will learn, among other things: