Dialysis Staff Inservice – Vitamin D

Short, thorough vitamin D inservice for dialysis staff.  Covers topics such as 1)difference between vitamin D analogs (ex. paracalcitol) and “nutritional vitamin D” such as cholecalciferol 2) Autocrine versus endocrine functions of vitamin D 3) Repletion guidelines for vitamin D 4) Identifying Vitamin D deficiency 5) Benefits of repletion 6) Toxicity of Vitamin D.  Great articles in presenter notes included that can be cut out for staff.