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Telehealth visits exchange face-to-face visits

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  • Shawna McMichael, front row center, and other members of her team from the home dialysis program at Washington University pose while wearing their personal protective equipment. Photo: For The Intelligencer

    Shawna McMichael, entrance row heart, and different members of her crew from the house dialysis program at Washington College pose whereas carrying their private protecting tools.

    Shawna McMichael, entrance row heart, and different members of her crew from the house dialysis program at Washington College pose whereas carrying their private protecting tools.


    Photograph: For The Intelligencer


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Shawna McMichael, entrance row heart, and different members of her crew from the house dialysis program at Washington College pose whereas carrying their private protecting tools.

Shawna McMichael, entrance row heart, and different members of her crew from the house dialysis program at Washington College pose whereas carrying their private protecting tools.



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Heroes Unmasked: McMichael helps residence dialysis sufferers


EDWARDSVILLE — Shawna McMichael has made a profession out of serving to different folks, and she or he and her medical crew from Washington College are conserving it up in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

McMichael, an Edwardsville resident, is a nurse supervisor within the Division of Nephrology at Washington College College of Drugs. She oversees the day by day operations of the biggest tutorial residence dialysis program within the nation. Through the pandemic, she has helped create telehealth visits to exchange face-to-face visits for residence dialysis sufferers.

“We cowl a 130-mile radius and oversee sufferers’ care by coaching them to do dialysis at residence,” McMichael mentioned. “After they be taught to try this, we see them on a month-to-month foundation, so they’ll come to St. Louis and see their doctor in addition to a nurse, a dialysis tech, dietician and a social employee.



“These sufferers take care of power sickness and dialysis is lifesaving. It may be scary, and our job is to guarantee that we construct their confidence up. We need to them really feel higher and have the ability to do dialysis within the consolation of their very own residence. We oversee their care till they do get a kidney transplant if that’s what their want is.”


When instances of coronavirus elevated in Missouri and Illinois and each states issued stay-at-home orders, McMichael needed to provoke and institute a fast transition to telehealth visits.

McMichael and her crew at the moment are utilizing FaceTime and Zoom since they’re authorised technique of communication below the current modifications in telehealth laws.


“Everyone’s life has been modified because of COVID-19 and the medical discipline isn’t any completely different,” McMichael mentioned. “We needed to discover a option to maintain our sufferers at residence and secure whereas nonetheless delivering the identical stage of care.

“For essentially the most half, I feel our sufferers have been scared to depart the home. We join with them as soon as a month and all our sufferers have their nurses’ cellular phone numbers. We’re at all times available for them, but it surely’s good to attach with them on video and see how they’re doing.”


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Whereas the sufferers are now not touring to St. Louis for his or her month-to-month visits, McMichael feels that the telehealth classes are nonetheless offering a private contact.

“We’re often saying ‘hello’ to the household canine as a result of we all know the canine’s title at this level,” McMichael mentioned. “We’re like household and so they get to know us very properly.”


McMichael salutes her coworkers for offering the additional stage of care.

“My employees is superb and a few of them have achieved residence dialysis for 40-plus years,” McMichael mentioned. “We’ve all needed to adapt to a brand new lifestyle and we’re all on this collectively and we’re going to get by means of this collectively.”

McMichael and her husband, Ryan, are each Edwardsville natives and reside in Edwardsville with their sons, Max and Cooper. A 1997 Edwardsville Excessive College graduate, McMichael earned an affiliate diploma in nursing from Lewis and Clark Group School and earned a bachelor’s diploma from Goldfarb College of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish School in St. Louis.

After being a labor and supply nurse at Anderson Hospital, McMichael acquired into dialysis at Washington College in March 2003.

“I fell in love with renal (nursing) and fell in love with the sufferers, plus the employees and the physicians at Washington College,” mentioned McMichael, who has been within the residence dialysis program for the reason that fall of 2010. “The training that you just recover from right here is phenomenal.

“As a nurse, residence dialysis is sort of the perfect job. You have got the scientific facet of taking good care of sufferers, however you even have the training a part of it. It’s one of the best of each worlds. You’re taking sufferers which can be battling a power sickness and giving them a life once more.”

Ryan McMichael, in the meantime, salutes his spouse for her work as a part of the house dialysis program.

For her, he is aware of that it’s greater than a job.

“She’s extraordinarily good at what she does and really centered and devoted,” mentioned Ryan, who’s director of inventive providers for an promoting company in St. Louis. “In layman’s phrases, she is working with individuals who can deal with their very own dialysis from the consolation of their very own residence versus doing it in-center three days every week for a number of hours at a time.

“She has been instrumental in serving to develop that program and incomes the respect of her crew of physicians to facilitate all these issues. Her sufferers at all times converse very extremely of her and she or he is prepared to go above and past to satisfy their wants.”

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