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SPEECH TOPICS
Communicating with
Healthcare Professionals
A Patient’s Journey
This speech is a metaphor to the all time favorite movie, "The
Wizard of Oz.” Using personal stories, Ms. Hartwell recreates this classic
tale and acknowledges the healthcare professionals that helped her find her
heart, brain and courage as a chronically ill patient. She shares solid wisdom
and concrete advice on specific ways for patients and professionals to
communicate more effectively with each other. A powerful and entertaining
presentation.
Target Audience: medical professionals
This
speech is ideal for keynote presentation
Kidney
Survivor: Lessons Learned from Experience
Living with CKD has all the elements of a really good game…it’s challenging,
requires team effort, calls for strategy, and, at times, can be amusing. The
truth is, however, we know surviving CKD is not a game. So what does it take to
be a survivor? Patient Speakers will share their experience, strength and hope.
Target Audience: patients & family members.
Kidney Survivor: Tips
to Help Your Patients Thrive
Surviving chronic Kidney disease requires a team effort.
Healthcare professionals will learn the history of dialysis and patient
survival, as well as ways to support and encourage patients who want to be more
involved in their own care with successful long-term results. As
survivors, patients motivate and encourage fellow patients through their own
long-term survival techniques. Target Audience: healthcare professionals
Make Yourself a Perfect 10! Ten Tips for Living a
Better Life on Dialysis
Patients will learn ten things they can do to live better while on dialysis.
PEPP Speakers will share words of wisdom as well as solid advice to help the
audience understand some of the critical issues that contribute to good health. Target Audience: patients & family members.
Taking Charge and Adding Life to Your Years
Living long and well with CKD is dependent upon maintaining good outcomes. This
presentation looks at what the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study
(DOPPS) has revealed regarding nutrition, mineral metabolism, anemia management,
vascular access, depression, and use of multivitamins and statins. This
information will give patients the knowledge they need to take charge of their
health.
Target Audience: patients & family members
Promoting Patient
Participation
This speech describes how to help patients become involved in their
treatment/healthcare. It emphasizes strategies for healthcare
professionals to assist patients in reaching their full potential.
Target Audience: medical professionals
Breakout Session
How to be Chronically Happy
Living with kidney disease since
the age of 2 has
taught Lori that adversity introduces you to yourself. How do you not become
resentful? How do you make the most out of the hand you’ve been dealt? Lori
reveals how she has achieved a joyful life - in spite of having to cope with the
many challenges a chronic illness can bring.
Target Audience: medical professionals, patients
and/or family members
Chronically Happy, Damn It!
Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Life is largely about
perception. As Ms. Hartwell says, “If I focused on everything that was wrong
with me medically, I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning.” Lori talks about
the emotions that patients experience and how anger, when properly channeled,
can be a great motivator. This speech sheds light on some of the darkness and
depression patients face and can also help professionals learn tools for anger
management.
Target Audience: medical professionals
Breakout Session
Past, Present and
Future of Kidney Disease
This presentation will inform
medical professionals of the history of treatment of chronic renal failure in
the United States, explain where we are now in renal healthcare, and what the
future holds. This presentation is designed to motivate and educate the renal
care professional that anything is possible as long as you never give up hope.
Target Audience: medical professionals
Organ Donation: Myth
or Fact?
An inspiring talk on the
importance of organ donation and the facts of how transplantation saves people's
lives. Lori shares the "pros and cons" of receiving a kidney transplant. The
Gift of Life proves that anything is possible with today's advanced
technology and it will touch your heart and evoke a myriad of emotions.
Target Audience: medical professionals, patients and family
members
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