Teaching an illiterate transplant patient.
RSR is now several years posttransplant. He has a serum creatinine of 2.1 mg/dl and his hypertension remains borderline with additional medication. He is seen regularly by his local nephrologist and once a year at the transplant center. In RSR's case, collaboration with physicians, nurses, and home health helped this patient achieve the goal of self-care. Illiteracy was no barrier to achieving this goal when assessing the patient's skills, developing a plan that uses those skills, and working together as a team to implement the plan.
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Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*