Abstract: Blood purification patients have various primary diseases and may present rapid disease changes or critically ill situations, which need the management by professional nurses with comprehensive competency of higher quality. Training blood purification nurses familiar with a variety of blood purification operations and enable to deal with various clinical problems are then required. Nurses newly working in this field are usually facing many challenges, including the specific skills of nursing operations and the abilities to identify disease changes, quite different from the nursing skills in other departments. Enhanced training of these nurses is an essential step to quickly increase their job competency capable to independently manage blood purification operations and dialysis patients and to support the continuing development of professional nursing in blood purification centers. This article reviews the research advances in the abilities of blood purification nurses. We summarize the importance and present situation of blood purification nurse training in China and foreign countries based on the concept of job competency, in order to provide references for the management and excellence of training new blood purification nurses.

Key words: Blood purification nurse; , Job competency; , Training, Nursing