Chronic renal failure: evaluation and teaching tool.
Chronic renal failure challenges both patients and families and the nurses who assist them to learn to manage a complex illness treatment program. The Chronic Renal Failure Evaluation and Teaching Tool described here is used to assess and teach inpatients being treated medically with or without dialysis. This article describes the format, content, and use of this tool.
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D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000451:nursing*; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009737:Nursing Records; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*