Kidney Transplantation and Nursing Care

Abstract

Kidney transplantation is the transplantation of a healthy kidney from a living or cadaveric donor to people with chronic and end-stage renal failure. Kidney transplantation is an effective treatment for end-stage renal failure worldwide. After transplantation, it is important for people to get used to their new lifestyle, psychosocial status and medication compliance. For this reason, nurses providing quality and individualized care to patients during the whole process of kidney transplantation will support the patient and family to adapt to this process. In addition, nurses have important roles in early recognition and prevention of complications that may occur in the patient after surgery. In this review, which was prepared by reviewing the current literature on the subject, nursing care in renal transplantation will be summarized in the light of current knowledge.